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3 天之前 · National affairs. Leaders and leaders Mark Baker 4 November 2024 Ahead of this week’s presidential election, billionaire newspaper owners have created a furore by blocking their editors’ endorsements. Jason Clare’s dead parrot Dean Ashenden 24 October 2024 Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed.
Making their political mark • Inside Story
3 天之前 · Some institutions have as their very mission to shape understanding of political memory. That is true of the National Archives Australia. Its eventually unsuccessful legal battle with Jenny Hocking over release of the Palace Letters is a reminder of how reliant we are on access to original documents if we are to undertake honest, well-informed appraisal of …
At last, Labor’s campaign finance bill • Inside Story
3 天之前 · Special minister of state Don Farrell described Labor’s major bill to reconfigure campaign finance — released yesterday — as a “comprehensive” “once in a generation” reform. On the latter, he was being restrained: it’s actually forty-one years since the Hawke government’s ground-breaking modernisation of the national electoral ...
The affair that never happened • Inside Story
2024年11月11日 · The Canadian–Norwegian production focuses on the sixties-spanning relationship between Cohen and his muse Marianne Ihlen, which started on the island of Hydra in mid 1960 and was all but exhausted by decade’s end. The story of that relationship — shifting between Hydra, Oslo, Montreal and New York — is told in parallel with that of ...
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Imperial reckoning • Inside Story
It was then that the idea of measuring the Empire on an historical–moral scale began to emerge. A key work was Margery Perham’s book, The Colonial Reckoning, based on her 1961 Reith lectures and published the following year. Perham was a leading historian of colonial administration, especially in Africa, and the lectures were a late-career ...
A steady path to sovereignty? • Inside Story
2023年10月6日 · As 2023 began, Dreyfus repeated his view that putting the Voice in the Constitution would have no impact on sovereignty. Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy gave a similar assurance on the ABC’s Q&A in late January. But the government seemed reluctant to define what Indigenous sovereign rights entailed.
Opening doors in Central Australia • Inside Story
Share. The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary F.W. Albrecht, his former student Lorna Wilson, and Lorna’s son Barry. Albrecht, who had come to Australia in 1925, worked in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the 1950s.
Making up for lost time • Inside Story
Penny Wong wants an Australia that’s more than just a supporting player in the grand drama of global geopolitics. Margaret Simons 1 November 2022 3359 words. Ambitious for Australia: foreign minister Penny Wong during a meeting with Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and prime minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House on 18 October.
The strange career of the great Australian silence - Inside Story
2022年11月15日 · “The history I would like to see written would bring into the main flow of its narrative the life and times of men like David Unaipon, Albert Namatjira, Robert Tudawali, Durmugam, Douglas Nicholls, Dexter Daniels, and many others.Not to scrape up significance for them but because they typify so vividly the other side of a story over which the great Australian silence reigns; the story of the ...