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Jan 21, 2025 · Books, ideas, current affairs and culture from a (mainly) Australian perspective
History’s hinge • Inside Story
Dec 9, 2024 · After a distinguished career in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Geoff Raby has become a consultant and widely published commentator on the dovish side of the debate about China’s ambitions. His latest book, Great Game On: The Contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy, a readable and thought-provoking mixture of history and musings on geopolitics, is enlivened by vignettes of ...
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Inside Story is an independent, non-profit magazine featuring analysis, commentary and reporting by leading writers and researchers from Australia and beyond. Editor: Peter Browne Contributing editor: Peter Mares Publisher: Mark Baker Inside Story Publishing Pty Ltd, PO Box 1170, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia • ABN 40 617 195 230 We acknowledge and pay respect to …
Digging deeper into a 65,000 year story - Inside Story
So what do we do with an outlier that refuses to be dismissed? Madjedbebe’s 65,000-year story allows us to calibrate the epic journey of our ancestors, homo sapiens, out of Africa. The colonisation of Australia was no small feat. It required the traverse of a passage of water around one hundred kilometres wide to a land where no hominid had roamed before. Based on …
Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice? • Inside Story
Nov 22, 2024 · In the old Chief Secretary’s Building, a sandstone relic of colonial New South Wales not far from Circular Quay, an episode in the state’s more recent history is being picked apart. In what is now a venue for judicial inquiries, a succession of retired policemen have testified this year about their role in events forty-five years ago. …
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 ...
The strange career of the great Australian silence - Inside Story
Nov 15, 2022 · “T he 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 ...
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. They might even impress the foreigners too. It is usually a one-way street. In the decades since 1945, Billy ...
Essays & reportage - Inside Story
Beyond words Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons The fall of the meritocracy? Dean Ashenden 10 December 2024 A taken-for-granted is being questioned at last, with implications in education and elsewhere Zealots of the reading room Anne-Marie Condé 6 December 2024 Great Australians ...
migration • Topic • Inside Story
Jan 6, 2025 · Is migration heading “back to normal”? Peter Mares 16 December 2023 The government has outlined its vision for skilled migration but it still has lots of colouring in to do The Lebers, a family of ratbags Seumas Spark 23 November 2023 Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change Stolen moments Linda Jaivin 21 November 2023 Caught between their home ...