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December 1, 2021The stunted country
There can be no republic without constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians
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February 1, 2021Australia’s haunted house
The Brereton Report has wounded Scott Morrison’s efforts to make the Australian War Memorial the nation’s ‘most sacred place’
Politics
July 2, 2019Scott Morrison’s quiet Australians
Just how silent does the PM want Australians to be?
Politics
March 22, 2018Moment of Truth
Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if we can face up to the past – a Quarterly Essay extract
Culture
September 1, 2017Success dogged him
Judith Brett’s ‘The Enigmatic Mr Deakin’ is a skilful portrait of Australia’s second prime minister
Culture
February 1, 2017The character business
What does the deluge of political biography and memoir say about politicians and readers?
Culture
June 1, 2016‘Unnecessary Wars’ by Henry Reynolds
NewSouth Publishing; $29.99
Politics
July 1, 2015Citizenship and its discontents
Talk of stripping citizenship is just one example of Tony Abbott’s alarmist rhetoric
Australian history
July 21, 2014‘Australian History in 7 Questions’ by John Hirst
Black Inc.; $24.99
blog
August 5, 2014Blackfellas’ Point: One decade later
It is now more than twenty years since I first saw the land that I would later come to know as ‘Blackfellas’ Point’. What began as a retreat from Sydney – a remote ‘bush block’ on the far south coast of New South Wales – is now home to my …
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May 1, 2014Knights and the old republic
Tony Abbott's aggressive monarchism
arts
February 1, 2014ASIO surveillance in ‘Persons of Interest’
Documentary series charts the history of Australia’s intelligence-gathering operations
Australian Parliament
February 1, 2013Growing pains
The nation’s capital turns 100
World War II
December 6, 2012Lest We Inflate
Why do Australians lust for heroic war stories?
Classical music
November 1, 2012Who Stopped the Music
How Jean Sibelius ran out of notes