4 天之前 · Essays & reportage Working for Whitlam Iola Mathews 28 January 2025 Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition Books & arts Blood quantum Martha Macintyre 28 January 2025 Who is entitled to be a Native American? International The Hindutva bus rolls on Robin Jeffrey 28 January 2025 Despite a ...

3 天之前 · Essays & reportage Working for Whitlam Iola Mathews 28 January 2025 Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition International The Hindutva bus rolls on Robin Jeffrey 28 January 2025 Despite a bumpy year for India, Narendra Modi’s BJP shows signs of an electoral bounce The view from ...

Essays & reportage Staying in the room Hamish McDonald 21 October 2024 Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies? Essays & reportage White lies, archival truths and R.J.L. Hawke Michael Piggott 17 October 2024 What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond Essays & reportage Monumental silence Dean ...

2024年11月22日 · Since hearings began last December, the inquiry has heard forty-three days of testimony. Searches ordered by the inquiry have generated some 52,000 pages of documents that have been digitised and made easily available on computer terminals, and proceedings have been live-screened and transcribed for public access.. Facing Acting Justice Hulme are …

For much if not all of Australia’s history, the foreign ministry has been a place where over-talented cabinet colleagues and defeated leadership rivals can be parked in the hope they find the job an interesting enough distraction from bread-and-butter, vote-winning domestic policies.

2024年12月9日 · One of Great Game On’s more dubious claims is that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reflects a longer-term quest to expand in order to keep secure and safe.This is in line with a Realist “don’t poke the bear” argument that allowing or encouraging Ukraine to move out of Russia’s self-appointed sphere of influence was as much or more to blame for the invasion as Russian aggression.

Donald Horne, citizen intellectual A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country, writes Frank Bongiorno Buckle and strain In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own, asks Patrick Mullins Stolen moments Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers ...

So what do we do with an outlier that refuses to be dismissed? Madjedbebe’s 65,000-year story allows us to calibrate the epic journey of our ancestors, homo sapiens, out of Africa.The colonisation of Australia was no small feat.

2024年11月4日 · Australia hasn’t been immune to this kind of controversy. In 2004 the Age created an outcry when it endorsed John Howard for another term in government despite a long history of editorial criticism, particularly of the Howard government’s harsh treatment of asylum seekers. Staff alleged that the paper had been ordered to back Howard by then Fairfax editorial director and later ABC boss ...

2024年12月6日 · I didn’t really know what I was looking for, but with me that’s usually how these things begin. I was at the National Library of Australia in Canberra and in front of me were the two volumes of Manning Clark’s Select Documents in Australian History, published in 1950 and 1955.Turning the pages, I was thinking how groundbreaking they were in their day for having brought historical ...