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6 days ago · Essays & reportage Staying in the room Hamish McDonald 21 October 2024 Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies? Essays & reportage White lies, archival truths and R.J.L. Hawke Michael Piggott 17 October 2024 What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond Essays & reportage Monumental silence Dean ...
Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice? • Inside Story
5 days ago · 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 …
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Essays & reportage From a distance Anne-Marie Condé 23 April 2024 A chance find reveals a trove of wartime letters and other memorabilia Essays & reportage A Dili diary Nicholas Jose 18 April 2024 Layers of history — Portugese, Dutch, Japanese, Indonesian, Australian — aren’t far from the surface in the Timorese capital and its hinterland …
The strange career of the great Australian silence - Inside Story
Nov 15, 2022 · “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 ...
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All quiet about the Western Front • Inside Story
May 17, 2021 · Essays & reportage The phoenix Helen Ennis 22 November 2024 Photographer Max Dupain returned from the war determined to reinvent himself and his work Essays & reportage Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice? Hamish McDonald 22 November 2024 A judicial inquiry has been told of withheld evidence that would have fundamentally challenged the case against the Croatian Six International One ...
Telling truths - Inside Story
Sep 10, 2021 · Truth-telling has political significance, and sometimes it avows a political purpose. The Uluru Statement suggested a political context for truth-telling: “We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.”
The wait of history • Inside Story
May 7, 2021 · The National Archives of Australia had a problem. At its heart was the fact that it held two copies of the Palace Letters, the secret correspondence between governor-general Sir John Kerr and the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, in the lead-up to the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
Reading Bruce Pascoe • Inside Story
Nov 26, 2019 · In recent years, as a historian of Australia, I’ve found that the book people most wanted to talk to me about is Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu.Many readers speak of it with a sense of astonishment and revelation; they often tell me that Pascoe’s book completely changed their understanding of Australian history.
The Great Divide • Inside Story
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 world’s peoples into farmers or hunter-gatherers.