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2024年12月23日 · National affairs Chequered flags Jock Given 19 December 2024 The arc of the moral universe might bend towards justice but sometimes it twists along the way Essays & reportage Beyond words Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons International Dronesplaining Jane Goodall 19 December 2024 ...
The strange career of the great Australian silence - Inside Story
2022年11月15日 · “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 ...
Opening doors in Central Australia • Inside Story
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 ...
Staying in the room • Inside Story
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.
Man in the middle • Inside Story
Books & arts Chronicle of a catastrophe foretold Klaus Neumann 24 December 2024 Could a close look at Austria tell us where Western democracies are heading? Essays & reportage Pursuing the wild reciter Peter Kirkpatrick 23 December 2024 Whatever happened to the communal enjoyment of poetry? International Dronesplaining Jane Goodall 19 December 2024 Whatever’s going on in the American skies ...
Red flags - Inside Story
2024年2月8日 · Jakob came of age in occupied Germany’s American zone not long after the second world war had ended. Living in a refugee camp, he heard rumours about what happened to people like him — a teenager wrenched from his home to become a forced labourer in Nazi Germany — if they returned to their homeland, which was now part of Soviet Ukraine.
A steady path to sovereignty? • Inside Story
2023年10月6日 · 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.
A landmark work of Australian history • Inside Story
Mike Smith (1955–2022), a great Australian archaeologist, died in Canberra on Sunday 16 October.As his family announced, “he put down his tools and hung up his hat.” A week before his death he was walking his beloved dog, writing a scientific paper, riding his recliner-bike around Lake Burley Griffin, converting cabbage from his garden into kimchi and no doubt cooking his famed custard ...
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A selection of recent Inside Story review essays • Inside Story
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 ...