July 1, 2021
Transforming the national imagination: The ‘Dark Emu’ debate
Culture
Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s ‘Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?’ challenges ideas of progress championed by Bruce Pascoe
James Boyce
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August 1, 2020
Julian of Norwich
Society
Might challenges to neoliberal orthodoxies emerge from the pandemic, as challenges to Christian faith did after the Black Death?
December 1, 2020
Picking losers
Politics
There are good reasons why Australians won’t pick fruit
April 1, 2020
Whitefella visits Kurnell
Society
A Botany Bay ferry would restore Cook’s landing site as a ‘meeting place’
January 9, 2020
A Pentecostal PM and climate change
Politics
Does a belief in the End Times inform Scott Morrison’s response to the bushfire crisis?
December 2, 2019
Damascene subversion: Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘Damascus’
Culture
The literary storyteller’s latest novel wrestles with the mythology of Christianity’s founder, Paul the Apostle
June 2, 2019
The lie of ‘responsible gambling’
Society
Australia’s world-beating gambling addiction and the deception hiding it
February 1, 2019
The Devil and Scott Morrison
Politics
What do we know about the prime minister’s Pentecostalism?
August 1, 2018
Mike Parr’s invisible performance and Tasmania’s complex past
Culture
Underneath the bitumen in Hobart, history becomes art
February 1, 2018
Decoding the dual-citizenship crisis
Politics
Australia’s founders would be shocked at today’s interpretation of the Constitution
November 1, 2017
Tablet or toilet?
Society
How transformative has the computer age really been?
July 14, 2014
The selfish gene
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene in 1976, the book that established his reputation and which, his closest supporters maintain, ‘takes pride of place among his achievements’. With it, he helped popularise the idea that not only the …
December 1, 2011
‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’ by Bill Gammage
arts
Modern environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant homelands – the coastlands of the temperate zone – were like before European settlement. Such has been the transformation of the …