2 days ago · The view from elsewhere Don’t believe him Ezra Klein 7 February 2025 Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different from what he wants you to see Books & arts Innovation and reaction Julian Disney 7 February 2025 A new history of Australia’s postwar welfare system provides plenty of lessons for a better future National affairs ...

2 days ago · The view from elsewhere Chaos and cruelty David J. Bier 6 February 2025 Joe Biden fixed the immigration system that Trump is once again smashing National affairs Forgetting robodebt Paddy Gourley 5 February 2025 A new report on Services Australia highlights the failings of public service capability reviews International Yet, look at the chaos Robin Jeffrey 3 February 2025 History collided with ...

2 days ago · Murphy’s title, An Unlikely Survival, reflects his belief that Australia has suffered less than other industrialised countries from the resurgence of laissez faire ideologies because the accompanying “refurbishment” of our welfare system during the Hawke–Keating years has been modified but not dismantled.He acknowledges the risk of seeming too generous in his assessments, however, and ...

6 days ago · The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service. Fewster makes proper use of the definitive book on the early decades of the spy service, Brian Toohey and William Pinwill’s OYSTER: The Story of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.. (“OYSTER” was a codeword stamped on ASIS material.)

Jan 28, 2025 · International Yet, look at the chaos Robin Jeffrey 3 February 2025 History collided with the ambitions of Narendra Modi’s government at India’s Maha Kumbh festival The view from elsewhere Trump starts to break things Noah Smith 3 February 2025 The US president’s tariff decisions will damage not just America’s allies but also its own economy Essays & reportage Working for Whitlam Iola ...

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 …

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.

Some institutions have as their very mission to shape understanding of political memory. That is true of the National Archives Australia. Its eventually unsuccessful legal battle with Jenny Hocking over release of the Palace Letters is a reminder of how reliant we are on access to original documents if we are to undertake honest, well-informed appraisal of our political history.

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.

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 ...