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The Australian War Memorial and the Great Australian Silence
Society / History
The Australian War Memorial and the Great Australian Silence
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The project that commissioned 67 Australian composers to write for each of Australian National Academy of Music’s musicians in lockdown
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From fires to floods, Australia is failing our disaster survivors
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The psychic terror wrought by palm-oil production
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If there was anything more bizarre than Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, it was the plethora of absurd hot takes that followed
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Alcoholics Anonymous in lockdown and out
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The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record
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Financial institutions, investment funds and governments are being held to account over the costs of climate change
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The Morrison government is yet to fully realise that sidelining the arts hurts the economy
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The death of Yokununna: ‘Return to Uluru’
Mark McKenna explores Australia’s history of violence, dispossession and deception through one tragic incident
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Louisa Lawson, our first public feminist
The pioneer of publishing and women’s rights has been unjustly overshadowed by regard for her famous son, Henry
The Palace Letters confirm the Crown’s neutrality is irrevocably compromised
What does Russia’s war in Ukraine mean for collaborative space exploration?
Since the first human forayed beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, politics has never left space
Gravitational waves and the secrets of the universe
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The strange paths taken by the mind when overwhelmed by fear
The shed that contains the future
A green hydrogen project in South Australia aims to demonstrate zero-emission energy production
A revived interest in alien visitation only underscores how little we know about the universe
How Australian public life has been diminished
Culture wars, climate wars and the bureaucratisation of writing have eroded the public sphere
The descent of creative arts at Australia’s universities
The bin fire of the humanities
Casualisation and relentless cost-cutting have destroyed the credibility of Australian universities
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When it comes to China’s influence, Australian universities have been burying their heads in the sand for too long
Why have Australia–China relations deteriorated so comprehensively, and what can Australia do to restore them?
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China panic: What can be done about anti-Chinese racism?
The work of combatting Sinophobia must be combined with a critique of Australian foreign policies
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New revelations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
The Australian surfers battling Chinese developers in Fiji
Joost Bakker’s vision for sustainable housing is taking root
MasterChef conceals and reveals Australian racism
The end of the cow is near as animal-free milk is likely to decimate the traditional dairy industry within the decade, and plant-based meat is set to upend the beef market
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How Port Douglas, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, has been quieted by lockdown
A former Russian athlete’s plan for Australia’s first commercial sub
A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal people
How piecemeal relationship and sexuality education is failing our schoolchildren
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Blinding contracts and labour law
A British backpacker’s win in the High Court has inadvertently left contractors with fewer employment protections
The end of Risdon Prison’s Spartan Debating Club, which offered inmates skills for non-violent conflict
Does the legal system put people through unnecessary trauma?
The legal system is failing survivors of sexual violence, so why is it being maintained?
Faced with the choice between a gruelling court process or nothing, victim-survivors are often coming away more bruised from the experience than they were beforehand
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A bloody shame: Paid period leave should be law
Australia’s workplace laws must better accommodate the reproductive body
Art heist: The landmark conviction of an Aboriginal art centre’s manager
The jailing of Mornington Island Art’s chief executive for dishonest dealing has shone a light on ethics and colonialism in the Indigenous art world
Why hasn’t the government recognised the Aboriginal Tent Embassy?
The decades-long protest is a symbol of Aboriginal sovereignty, which has been vigorously resisted by the Australian government
Songlines or pipelines in the Burrup?
The largest new fossil-fuel project in Australia threatens the world’s most significant rock art
Revisiting trauma is not the road to justice for Aboriginal people
Rock-climbers at Arapiles/Dyurrite say the parks department has misled traditional owners over climb closures
Fortescue Metals Group has a history of “unconscionable” settlements with Indigenous custodians
Julian Assange’s extradition trial continues as an attack on journalism
Laurie Matheson, our man in Moscow
Was ‘Australia’s James Bond’ working for the KGB? Or ASIO? Or both?
Nuclear brinkmanship and the doomsday scenario
The risk posed by the global weapons complex is much worse than you know
The third volume in ASIO’s official history confirms infiltration by Soviet intelligence
The dispute over the South China Sea will come to affect more than just China’s near neighbours
John Blaxland’s ‘The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO 1963–1975’
What shifting notions of sex and gender mean for affirmative action in the workplace
A senator’s fight against Australia’s racism and sexism
‘Here We Are’ at the Art Gallery of NSW
An opportunity for rethinking the position of women in contemporary art
Helping trans and non-binary gendered people define their vocal identity
Terri Butler’s rise through the rancour
The Queensland Labor MP on the hustings and the hating
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Cricketing institutions are on a sticky wicket
Tim Paine’s sexting scandal reveals more about institutional failures than personal ones
The I-Kiribati Olympic sprinter hoping to draw attention to his nation’s climate catastrophe
Home truths from the Euro 2020 tournament
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Australia’s world-leading COVID guidelines
When it came to setting guidelines for clinical treatment during the pandemic, Australia got it right
Premier Steven Marshall claimed South Australia was “COVID-ready” when the state opened borders just as Omicron was emerging, but it now faces the same issues as the eastern states
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The federal government’s handling of the pandemic has been the worst public policy screw-up in Australian history
The pandemic has led to a surge in people needing help putting food on the table
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