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International
After Khan Sheikhun
Ross Burns
10 April 2017
Signs that Bashar al-Assad is panicking could create an opportunity to re-engage the Syrian peace talks
International
Hard cases make bad international law
Kevin Boreham
10 April 2017
Without a clear strategy, the American strike on a Syrian airfield lacked both legality and effectiveness
Essays & Reportage
Australia’s Armenian story
Vicken Babkenian and Judith Crispin
6 April 2017
Extract
| The wartime events of 24 April 1915 initiated more than a century of interaction reaching across the globe
National Affairs
A dangerous game
Tom Hyland
5 April 2017
The campaign to hide the full truth of Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war continues
International
Back to Bikini, forward to disarmament
Nic Maclellan
27 March 2017
As governments begin negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, the Marshall Islands is still seeking justice for years of cold war testing
Books & Arts
The truth about torture
Tom Hyland
26 January 2017
From the archive
| Outside TV drama, “enhanced interrogation” fails the evidence test, writes
Tom Hyland
in this review first published in June 2016
National Affairs
The “information war” hits Sydney
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
16 December 2016
Controversy over a statue in the city’s inner west has deep historical roots
Essays & Reportage
Grace abounding
Jeff Doyle
15 November 2016
A wartime TV series that premiered forty years ago tapped into the mood of the mid seventies
Books & Arts
A danger to democracy and liberty?
David Clune
10 November 2016
Books
| A new account of the 1916 and 1917 conscription debates looks beyond the factional struggles that tore Labor apart
Books & Arts
What is all this fighting for?
Tom Hyland
18 August 2016
Books
| The army is better equipped and trained than ever before, says
Tom Hyland
, but is it in the right shape to fight a war close to home?
Essays & Reportage
Managing Hiroshima
Matthew Ricketson
4 August 2016
We now know much about what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But the earliest reliable news came from maverick journalists, writes
Matthew Ricketson
Books & Arts
A story told over and over
Jane Goodall
18 July 2016
Television
|
Game of Thrones
brings to the screen qualities we associate with Aeschylus and Sophocles, writes
Jane Goodall
International
The political imperative for a legal war
Gabrielle Appleby
13 July 2016
Britain’s highest legal officer was under enormous pressure to give the legal okay for the war in Iraq, writes
Gabrielle Appleby
. Australia can learn from the fallout
National Affairs
What Britain’s Iraq inquiry means for Australia
Judith Betts
8 July 2016
Deft media management took the sting out of Australia’s first inquiry into the decision to go to war in Iraq
Books & Arts
Schwarzkopf and the Nazis
Andrew Ford
5 July 2016
How do we reconcile an artist’s views with her work?
Essays & Reportage
Harold Holt and the art of personal diplomacy
Paul Rodan
1 July 2016
He might have been an ardent admirer of the United States, but Harold Holt also brought welcome changes to Australia’s relations with the rest of the world, writes
Paul Rodan
From the archive
The myth of Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli letter
Mark Baker
27 June 2016
The legendary dispatch failed its first test nearly a century ago in London
International
Strategic storm clouds
Geoffrey Barker
3 June 2016
The federal election takes place against a background of complex and interacting global challenges, writes
Geoffrey Barker
Books & Arts
An “ordinary guy” in extraordinary times
Tom Hyland
1 April 2016
Books
| David Kilcullen helps us make sense of the madness unleashed by Islamic State, writes
Tom Hyland.
But he’s less convincing about what we should do next
Books & Arts
The trouble with stories
Jane Goodall
8 March 2016
Television
| The West created its own narratives in Afghanistan, writes
Jane Goodall
. A compelling new series shows how reality failed to fit
Books & Arts
A father, a son, and two wars
Meg Gurry
1 March 2016
Books
|
Meg Gurry
reviews Michael McKernan’s account of one family in war and peace
Books & Arts
The education of Dr K.
Graeme Dobell
17 December 2015
Books
|
Graeme Dobell
reviews an admirer’s biography of the controversial scholar-strategist
Books & Arts
Code-breakers
Carolyn Holbrook
10 December 2015
Books
| Australian women have been reporting from war zones since the beginning of the twentieth century, and sometimes that’s meant stepping over the line
Books & Arts
The enigma of Keith Murdoch
Michael Cannon
18 November 2015
A new biography reveals a complex and contentious figure
Books & Arts
Unleashed
Jane Goodall
13 November 2015
Television
| What kind of species are we? A night in front of the TV had some answers, writes
Jane Goodall
International
Beyond the spectacle of violence
Matthew Gray
17 September 2015
The crisis in Syria could easily worsen, writes
Matthew Gray
, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Islamic State is in the ascendant
Correspondents
Europe’s, and Britain’s, migration fix
David Hayes
8 September 2015
An influx of neighbours is testing Europe’s unity and values, and Britain’s instinct for semi-detachment, writes
David Hayes
in London
International
Reclaiming Japan’s peace narrative
Carolyn S. Stevens and Tessa Morris-Suzuki
13 August 2015
If “normalisation” becomes Japan’s new national narrative, it will undermine the hopeful story that has been told since 1945, write
Carolyn S. Stevens
…
Essays & Reportage
This glorious moment
Stuart Macintyre
12 August 2015
Extract
| Seventy years ago this week, prime minister Ben Chifley announced that the war in the Pacific was over. Planning for peace was already well under way, writes…
Books & Arts
Australia reconstructs
Hannah Forsyth
15 June 2015
Books
| Stuart Macintyre’s history of Australia in the 1940s is a big book in the best sense
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