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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
The art project marking the boundaries of the Yarra Valley’s historic Aboriginal station
Blackbirds: Australia’s hidden slave trade history
The racism that brought Australian South Sea Islanders here, and the racism that tried to send them back
The end of a century-old enmity between Australia and a Solomon Islands community
After all that, where did Cook’s ship end up?
Australia’s remote territory is agitating for autonomy
Barron Field and the myth of terra nullius
How a minor poet made a major historical error
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