2 days 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 Books & arts Blood quantum Martha Macintyre 28 January 2025 Who is entitled to be a Native American? International The Hindutva bus rolls on Robin Jeffrey 28 January 2025 Despite a ...

2 days 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 …

2 days 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.

Donald Horne, citizen intellectual A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country, writes Frank Bongiorno Buckle and strain In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own, asks Patrick Mullins Stolen moments Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers ...

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 ...

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.

Sep 3, 2024 · Twenty twenty-three was the pivotal year of the Albanese government’s first term. Two things were defining. The first was Albanese’s March meeting in San Diego with British prime minister Rishi Sunak and American president Joe Biden to put flesh on the bones of the three nation’s AUKUS agreement.

Oct 6, 2023 · The Yes/No alignments of First Nations Australians may not be an accurate guide to their differing views about sovereignty, but the debate about how to vote has at least focused attention on larger questions that Indigenous representatives will probably need to debate if a Voice is established.