Essays & reportage A tale told by a historian Anne-Marie Condé 30 April 2025 How Kathleen Fitzpatrick began exercising her historical imagination ...

Books & arts The view from Grassy Hill Glyn Davis 18 December 2025 In his new book, Henry Reynolds turns Australian history on its head ...

In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 93 per cent of children attend public schools. In Alberta, the province that topped Canada for reading and science in the latest round of OECD tests, ...

Nations are built with pens and brushes not just hammers and nails. They exhibit their character in what they say about themselves as much as what is said about them. — Bruce Pascoe, Convincing Ground ...

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the world’s attention has focused on what quickly became a grinding war of attrition, with its endless drone and missile ...

In many ways, Australia’s Covid-19 strategy has been a triumph. But now, barring a substantial second wave of infection — which is still a possibility — the federal government’s primary task will be ...

The critics were right. Ten years after the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement, or AUSFTA, came into force, new analysis of the data shows that the agreement diverted Australia’s trade away ...

Our European ancestors locked us in a madhouse. 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 ...

It’s been forty years since Mark Aarons, an ABC reporter, broke the news that Nazi war criminals were living in peaceful obscurity in Australian suburbia. What followed was astonishing for a country ...

THE story of the devastation of the NSW Labor Party in 2011 begins on the night of one of its more miraculous victories. On Saturday 24 March 2007, the premier, Morris Iemma – whose government had ...

To see the Whitlam government as a product of the 1960s is so conventional, so obvious and so banal it hardly seems worth saying. The government was elected in 1972; how could it not come out of the ...

The Cambridge-based Australian historian Christopher Clark was not unknown in Germany when he published his latest book, The Sleepwalkers. In 2010, his history of Prussia, Iron Kingdom, attracted ...