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National affairs Militarisation marches on Henry Reynolds 25 September 2014 The militarisation of Australia’s history has begun to reflect back on the present and change our political practice, argues Henry Reynolds Essays & reportage Uncivil aviation: Biggles down under Adam Nicol 15 August 2014 W.E. Johns’s failure to adapt to the postwar era left Biggles a shadow of his wartime self, writes Adam Nicol Books & arts Christopher Clark’s Sleepwalkers and the Germans. A misunderstanding? Andreas Wirsching 5 August 2014 An Australian historian’s reappraisal of the origins of the first world war has provoked enormous interest in Germany, writes Andreas Wirsching. But the debate… Books & arts Franz Ferdinand moments Jane Goodall 29 July 2014 The centenary of the first world war has begun, writes Jane Goodall, but Australia’s public broadcasters are still feeling their way

International The long shadow of Bravo Nic Maclellan 25 February 2014 Six decades after the United States conducted its most powerful nuclear test in the Marshall Islands, governments are once again debating the humanitarian impact of nuclear… Books & arts The worst-reported and least-understood foreign conflict in Australian history Tom Hyland 22 January 2014 That’s the conclusion of a careful analysis of how the media handled Afghanistan, writes Tom Hyland Books & arts A different kind of war Kay Saunders 8 January 2014 Kay Saunders reviews Joan Beaumont’s account of Australia’s first world war Books & arts “When I forget, I’m well. Remembering, even now, I just go crazy” Klaus Neumann 23 December 2013 Does the equation that infuses the work of truth commissions – that more memory equals more reconciliation – always meet the needs of people affected by widespread…

Essays & reportage Forgotten war Henry Reynolds 25 July 2013 The looming centenary of the landing at Gallipoli is a reminder of unfinished business between settler and Indigenous Australia after a decade of incomplete reconciliation Books & arts A difficult neighbourhood John Besemeres 2 July 2013 A new account of Poland’s experience of the second world war helps fill a blank page in our historical consciousness, writes John Besemeres Books & arts Desire denied Glenn Nicholls 31 May 2013 Glenn Nicholls reviews Cory Taylor’s novel about love in an Australian internment camp Britain’s military complex David Hayes 12 April 2013 The grim conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have dulled the instinct for armed intervention. But it still runs deep in British political culture, writes David Hayes