2 days ago · Books & arts The writer and the dictator Peter Morgan 21 January 2025 Ismail Kadare’s final novel sums up a career shaped by tyranny National affairs Staking out the healthcare battleground Mike Steketee 17 January 2025 Mediscare Mark II could grab the election headlines, but the real reform action is elsewhere The view from elsewhere The populist phantom Larry M. Bartels 18 January 2025 ...

1 day ago · Essays & reportage Working for Whitlam Iola Mathews 28 January 2025 Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of the opposition International The Hindutva bus rolls on Robin Jeffrey 28 January 2025 Despite a bumpy year for India, Narendra Modi’s BJP shows signs of an electoral bounce The view from ...

Nov 22, 2024 · Since hearings began last December, the inquiry has heard forty-three days of testimony. Searches ordered by the inquiry have generated some 52,000 pages of documents that have been digitised and made easily available on computer terminals, and proceedings have been live-screened and transcribed for public access.. Facing Acting Justice Hulme are …

1 day ago · When he was invited to work for Gough Whitlam in September 1967, Race Mathews was thirty-two, a teacher and Education Department speech therapist, married with three children. He’d been active in the Labor Party and served on the local council in the outer-eastern Melbourne suburb of Croydon. As ...

Dec 9, 2024 · One of Great Game On’s more dubious claims is that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reflects a longer-term quest to expand in order to keep secure and safe.This is in line with a Realist “don’t poke the bear” argument that allowing or encouraging Ukraine to move out of Russia’s self-appointed sphere of influence was as much or more to blame for the invasion as Russian aggression.

For much if not all of Australia’s history, the foreign ministry has been a place where over-talented cabinet colleagues and defeated leadership rivals can be parked in the hope they find the job an interesting enough distraction from bread-and-butter, vote-winning domestic policies.

Nov 15, 2022 · “The history I would like to see written would bring into the main flow of its narrative the life and times of men like David Unaipon, Albert Namatjira, Robert Tudawali, Durmugam, Douglas Nicholls, Dexter Daniels, and many others.Not to scrape up significance for them but because they typify so vividly the other side of a story over which the great Australian silence reigns; the story of the ...

The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary F.W. Albrecht, his former student Lorna Wilson, and Lorna’s son Barry. Albrecht, who had come to Australia in 1925, worked in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the 1950s. There he established an enlightened and culturally sensitive ...

Nov 4, 2024 · Australia hasn’t been immune to this kind of controversy. In 2004 the Age created an outcry when it endorsed John Howard for another term in government despite a long history of editorial criticism, particularly of the Howard government’s harsh treatment of asylum seekers. Staff alleged that the paper had been ordered to back Howard by then Fairfax editorial director and later ABC boss ...

Sep 17, 2024 · While the broader state of the armed forces was outside the commission’s terms of reference, a timely new book based on the first independent study of institutional abuse within the military has detailed the failure of repeated efforts to reform Australia’s army, navy and air force over the past half century.