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There is nothing learnt by erasing, or defacing, the past
A Botany Bay ferry would restore Cook’s landing site as a ‘meeting place’
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the author of ‘Stasiland’ reveals the ongoing power of the former East German regime, not just in politics and business but also in shaping perceptions of victimhood in unified Germany
The time for convenient denial of Australia’s brutal history is past
Laurie Matheson, our man in Moscow
Was ‘Australia’s James Bond’ working for the KGB? Or ASIO? Or both?
Filling a big hole in the property market
The old Cave Hill quarry in Melbourne will be home to thousands
Mike Parr’s invisible performance and Tasmania’s complex past
Underneath the bitumen in Hobart, history becomes art
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre
An extract from the book marking the massacre’s 180th anniversary
‘Deep Time Dreaming’ by Billy Griffiths
This history of archaeology in Australia charts our changing relationship with the past
Patrick White’s immigrant language
White gained from his partner’s Greek Orthodoxy a sensibility that changed how he saw Australia