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First Nations
Books & Arts
Demythologising the frontier
Larissa Behrendt
6 December 2023
David Marr’s intergenerational account of colonisation challenges us to think differently about truth-telling
National Affairs
Getting the referendum wrong
Peter Brent
6 November 2023
Railing against the elites, the
Australian
’s editor-at-large has missed real messages in the Voice vote
Books & Arts
Being human
Martha Macintyre
4 November 2023
An anthropologist sees a radically distinctive humanity among Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples
National Affairs
Indigenous policy’s inflection point
Michael Dillon
16 October 2023
What does the referendum result mean for First Nations policymaking?
National Affairs
The unforgiving logic of Labor referendums
Peter Brent
16 October 2023
Despite the Yes campaign’s best efforts, Saturday’s vote followed the referendum playbook
Essays & Reportage
Two worlds
Louise K. Hansen
12 October 2023
“You don’t even look Nyoongar,” they told the author as a schoolgirl. “Are you sure you’re Aboriginal?”
Essays & Reportage
Yes or No, history won’t go away
Peter Mares
10 October 2023
Regardless of the outcome of the Voice referendum, Australia’s past will continue to unsettle the present
Essays & Reportage
You’re not going to buy it are you?
Anne-Marie Condé
29 September 2023
A chance find in a Melbourne collectibles shop transports the author back to 1988’s “celebration of a nation”
Correspondents
Entangled histories
Antonia Finnane
28 September 2023
A group of Australian MPs in Taiwan this week would have been struck by parallels between the two countries’ First Nations people
Books & Arts
The collaborators
Andrew Ford
27 September 2023
How pianist Paul Grabowsky benefited from the generosity of the Wilfred brothers and other Indigenous musicians
Books & Arts
Northeastern Canada’s self-governing Inuit
Harry Hobbs
10 August 2023
The Nunatsiavut assembly sits at the intersection of Inuit and European political traditions
Books & Arts
Three “bloody difficult” subjects
Tim Rowse
4 July 2023
Historian Ruth Ross, the Waitangi Treaty and historical mythmaking are the subjects of a provocative account of New Zealand’s founding document that throws light on Australian…
Books & Arts
The country we are still to be
Henry Reynolds
22 June 2023
Stan Grant’s
The Queen is Dead
reviewed
National Affairs
The translator
Tim Rowse
5 April 2023
A capacity to enable fruitful cross-cultural interaction was among the strengths of Yolngu leader Yunupingu, who died last weekend
National Affairs
Treaty-making gathers pace
Harry Hobbs
17 March 2023
Most state and territory governments have commenced negotiations with First Nation peoples
National Affairs
Just remind me, what is the Constitution?
Peter Brent
15 February 2023
There are good reasons to be sceptical about recent polling on the Voice referendum
Books & Arts
A dictionary for the future
Michael Dillon
1 February 2023
The
Gija Dictionary
opens a window on the sophisticated culture of the people of the East Kimberley
National Affairs
What’s in it for everyone?
Peter Brent
23 January 2023
Plenty, in fact, so the government needs to avoid getting derailed by the Voice’s critics (and some of its friends)
Essays & Reportage
The strange career of the great Australian silence
Dean Ashenden
15 November 2022
How a journey north from Adelaide led to
Telling Tennant’s Story
, the 2022 Political Book of the Year
Essays & Reportage
Hot, wild heart
Eleanor Hogan
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
Books & Arts
Behind the law’s “sheen of neutrality”
Kate Rossmanith
26 September 2022
In
Black Lives, White Law
, Russell Marks points towards a more hopeful future
Books & Arts
Casting Mystery Road
Jane Goodall
3 September 2022
Director Dylan River, producer Greer Simpkin and casting director Anousha Zarkesh talk to
Inside Story
about creating an ensemble with chemistry
Books & Arts
Thinking Black
Tim Rowse
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
Essays & Reportage
Uptight and uncomfortable
Renée Jeffery
22 November 2021
How can we improve Australia’s uneasy engagement with the global human rights system?
Essays & Reportage
Telling truths
Tim Rowse
10 September 2021
What will emerge from an Indigenous-led process of truth-telling?
National Affairs
The elephants in the courtroom
Jeremy Gans
10 September 2021
The justice system’s dealings with the police officer accused of killing Kumanjayi Walker are shadowed by cases past
Essays & Reportage
All that remains
Kate Fullagar
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Essays & Reportage
The beauty and the terror
Tom Griffiths
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Books & Arts
The trouble with history
Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe
6 August 2021
The authors of
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate
respond to Bill Gammage’s “The Great Divide”
National Affairs
The place of reconciliation
Amanda Nettelbeck
29 June 2021
Does our opening up to Indigenous history work best locally?
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