6 days ago · Books & arts “Give a woman a Kodak…” Richard Johnstone 10 February 2025 From the late nineteenth century, new lightweight cameras opened up the world in ways their manufacturers didn’t anticipate National affairs Queensland to the rescue? Peter Brent 7 February 2025 History suggests Labor’s state election loss in the Sunshine State last October might — just might — work in ...

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.

Feb 2, 2025 · The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service. Fewster makes proper use of the definitive book on the early decades of the spy service, Brian Toohey and William Pinwill’s OYSTER: The Story of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.. (“OYSTER” was a codeword stamped on ASIS material.)

National affairs Getting schooling wrong Dean Ashenden 27 September 2024 The Monthly and the Saturday Paper are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story? National affairs Antitrust’s Big Tobacco moment James Panichi & Ryan Cropp 25 September 2024 Has Big Tech’s big-spending campaign against competition law come to a university near you?

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Books & arts Menzies hits his straps Paul Rodan 14 February 2025 Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom Books & arts Of the sky, the birds Sara Dowse 13 February 2025 A diary of a terminal illness becomes an intimate tribute to friendship Books & arts “Give a woman a Kodak…”

Essays & reportage Angels and demons Mark Baker 8 August 2024 The military hierarchy took a dim view of aircrew traumatised by their experiences over Nazi Germany Essays & reportage Parliament makes history Frank Bongiorno & Joshua Black 6 August 2024 Following a heated double-dissolution election, both houses met jointly for the first time ever on 6–7 August 1974 Essays & reportage “The ...

Dec 9, 2024 · 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.

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 our political history.

Jan 28, 2025 · Books & arts Menzies hits his straps Paul Rodan 14 February 2025 Much good luck and a degree of good management enabled the long-serving prime minister to ride the postwar boom The view from elsewhere Don’t believe him Ezra Klein 7 February 2025 Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different from what he wants you to see National ...

Mike Smith (1955–2022), a great Australian archaeologist, died in Canberra on Sunday 16 October.As his family announced, “he put down his tools and hung up his hat.” A week before his death he was walking his beloved dog, writing a scientific paper, riding his recliner-bike around Lake Burley Griffin, converting cabbage from his garden into kimchi and no doubt cooking his famed custard ...

Nov 15, 2022 · “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 ...

Feb 6, 2025 · Essays & reportage Modi’s expatriate army Hamish McDonald 20 December 2023 Western leaders are distancing themselves from the Hindu nationalism popular in some sections of India’s diaspora National affairs Is migration heading “back to normal”? Peter Mares 16 December 2023 The government has outlined its vision for skilled migration but it still has lots of colouring in to do Essays ...

Dec 6, 2024 · 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 ...

Nov 4, 2024 · 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 ...

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 ...

Feb 7, 2025 · Murphy’s title, An Unlikely Survival, reflects his belief that Australia has suffered less than other industrialised countries from the resurgence of laissez faire ideologies because the accompanying “refurbishment” of our welfare system during the Hawke–Keating years has been modified but not dismantled.He acknowledges the risk of seeming too generous in his assessments, however, and ...

Jun 5, 2023 · “An extraordinary 98.6 per cent of those registered cast their votes” on that day in August 1999, writes Stockings. When the result was announced on 4 September, 21.5 per cent (93,388 voters) had cast their ballots for autonomy within Indonesia and 78.5 per cent (344,580) had chosen independence.

Sep 17, 2024 · While the broader state of the armed forces was outside the commission’s terms of reference, a timely new book based on the first independent study of institutional abuse within the military has detailed the failure of repeated efforts to reform Australia’s army, navy and air force over the past half century.

From the archive Unquiet stories from Liffey Anne-Marie Condé 11 November 2021 A graveyard hints at the many people already mourning when the first world war broke out From the archive Inventing “ScoMo” Sean Kelly 5 November 2021 The prime minister set his own test for success — authenticity — and then went about passing it From the archive On being cosmopolitan Sara Dowse 22 October ...