National Affairs
22 June 2021
Can a referendum on the Voice to Parliament succeed?
Books & Arts
16 June 2021
What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu
Essays & Reportage
8 June 2021
The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians
Essays & Reportage
26 March 2021
Is the federal government looking for too much unity in a country nourished by difference?
Essays & Reportage
19 March 2021
Mark Baker recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
National Affairs
8 February 2021
Does Sweden’s Sámediggi offer lessons for Australia’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament?
Books & Arts
30 November 2020
Books | The links have been quietly developing for decades, but there’s still much more Australia can learn from its nearest eastern neighbour
Essays & Reportage
8 September 2020
While the new agreement opens up opportunities for Indigenous organisations, the federal government has stepped back from its post-1967 responsibilities
Essays & Reportage
3 September 2020
An exchange of memorials illustrates how Cook has been remembered and misremembered
Essays & Reportage
4 August 2020
Myth, history and Captain Cook
National Affairs
2 July 2020
The Productivity Commission wants a new focus on what works for Indigenous communities
Books & Arts
24 June 2020
Books | Historian Mark Dunn is alive to the complexities of early contact in the Hunter region
National Affairs
12 June 2020
Two major inquiries have recommended a simple measure to reduce Aboriginal deaths in custody. So why have most states taken so long to act?
Books & Arts
5 June 2020
Books | A new biography of Truganini provokes bittersweet reflections
Books & Arts
4 June 2020
Television | The ABC’s satirical take on the Maralinga tests captures the confusion and the wilful blindness
Books & Arts
13 May 2020
Television | Ensemble drama Mystery Road is in a class of its own
Essays & Reportage
1 May 2020
Reappraisals and re-enactments have shaped public memory, but our understanding of James Cook’s life and impact continues to evolve
Essays & Reportage
28 April 2020
The anniversary festival has been abandoned, but the communities at Cook’s landing point continue to promote a more complex story
Books & Arts
27 April 2020
Books | Two new books about frontier conflict bring fresh evidence that Aboriginal communities waged well-planned warfare on the settlers
Essays & Reportage
17 April 2020
Having yet again rediscovered Aboriginal land management practices, let’s not let the opportunity slip away
Essays & Reportage
6 April 2020
How the Spanish flu reached the New South Wales town of Singleton
Essays & Reportage
17 February 2020
Extract | For many Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland and a refuge
Essays & Reportage
4 August 2019
Extract | Maralinga combines the devastation of atomic testing and the green shoots of the future
National Affairs
24 July 2019
Governments across Australia are negotiating formal agreements with Indigenous communities
National Affairs
21 July 2019
An edited extract from the former chief justice’s speech this week
National Affairs
17 July 2019
At heart, this is an inclusive rather than divisive proposal
National Affairs
14 June 2019
Nearly thirty years after the Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission, the Northern Territory finally has a custody notification service. But is there devil in its detail?
Essays & Reportage
28 May 2019
Is there a way to escape the paradox presented so movingly by Stan Grant?
Books & Arts
8 May 2019
Books | Three men and four organisations were at the centre of a movement with an outsized impact on Australian politics
Essays & Reportage
21 November 2018
The pioneering Indigenous journalist played a key role in establishing the Tent Embassy in Canberra. His work has been recognised this month by the Australian Media Hall of Fame