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National affairs. Leaders and leaders Mark Baker 4 November 2024 Ahead of this week’s presidential election, billionaire newspaper owners have created a furore by blocking their editors’ endorsements. Jason Clare’s dead parrot Dean Ashenden 24 October 2024 Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed.
Imperial reckoning • Inside Story
It was then that the idea of measuring the Empire on an historical–moral scale began to emerge. A key work was Margery Perham’s book, The Colonial Reckoning, based on her 1961 Reith lectures and published the following year. Perham was a leading historian of colonial administration, especially in Africa, and the lectures were a late-career ...
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The place of reconciliation • Inside Story
The Reconciliation Barometer tells us that the vast majority of Australia’s general community believe in the importance of truth-telling processes as a means “to acknowledge the reality of Australia’s shared history.”. But it also tells us that large numbers of people remain doubtful about what truths our national history might hold.
Essays & reportage • Category - Inside Story
Essays & reportage Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion Murray Goot 12 March 2024 Is the Australian’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours? Essays & reportage Ben Chifley’s pipe Anne-Marie Condé 7 March 2024 A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows Essays & reportage Red flags Ebony Nilsson 8 February 2024 Communist ...
Making up for lost time • Inside Story
Penny Wong wants an Australia that’s more than just a supporting player in the grand drama of global geopolitics. Margaret Simons 1 November 2022 3359 words. Ambitious for Australia: foreign minister Penny Wong during a meeting with Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and prime minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House on 18 October.
Entangled histories • Inside Story
2023年9月28日 · Books & arts Mao’s suave controller — or enabler? Linda Jaivin 1 October 2024 Once described as the Zelig of Chinese politics, Zhou Enlai had an uneasy relationship with the Great Helmsman Books & arts Where Cook saw a camel Marian Quartly 16 September 2024 Two journeys up the east coast of Australia Books & arts Unhealthy ambitions Mark Edele 12 September 2024 A fine-grained and often ...
migration • Topic • Inside Story
2024年10月1日 · Heritage hunting Antonia Finnane 9 February 2024 A great number of migrants left China’s Zhongshan county for Australia — but the traffic wasn’t always one way. Red flags Ebony Nilsson 8 February 2024 Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services.
The Great Divide • Inside Story
To explain why their society was technologically more complex than others, they came up with what I call the Great Divide — the separation of the world’s peoples into farmers or hunter-gatherers. Anchored by their crops, farmers stayed put; hunter-gatherers didn’t. So the Divide is also a division between sedentism and mobility.
The strange career of the great Australian silence - Inside Story
2022年11月15日 · “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 ...