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DateTitleAuthor
4 Oct 2026Bob Dylan’s lesson for older men: life still asks something of youAdrian Rosenfeldt
4 Oct 2026NAZA exposes the distance between those who target Gaza and those who dieDrew Paul
28 Sep 2026The attempt to silence Macklemore put Palestine centre stageAhmed Najar
22 Sep 2026Keating by Biggins: a rollicking ride and some solemn reflectionAndrew Fraser
20 Sep 2026What is wrong with Oasis helps them to thriveAdrian Rosenfeldt
19 Sep 2026In an age of doomscrolling and AI, young Australians are turning to poetryAnn Vickery
6 Sep 2026What are we missing about Helen of Troy?Adrian Rosenfeldt
31 Aug 2026Nolan's The Odyssey and the moral blindness of powerPeter T. C. Chang
30 Aug 2026Might Kyrgios actually know what he is doing?Adrian Rosenfeldt
30 Aug 2026The extraordinary life and art of Yayoi KusamaSasha Grishin
23 Aug 2026How to Sell a Genocide – libraries are for difficult books tooHeather L. Robinson
11 Aug 2026Glen Hansard and the Ireland that learned to sing in its own voiceStewart Sweeney
9 Aug 2026Omar Musa’s Miles Franklin win rewards epic, ambitious writing with a global scopeAlexander Howard
9 Aug 2026The political cartoonist is becoming an endangered speciesRichard Scully, Robert Phiddian
2 Aug 2026Trump has broken Zeus’ lawGeorge Browning
1 Aug 2026Picturing armageddon: Will Trump listen to the next nuclear war film?Jeff Peck
25 Jul 2026Public life needs fewer empty notes – Message from the EditorMartyn Pearce
20 Jul 2026Artists need copyright plus in the age of AIKathy Bowrey
18 Jul 2026From Astral Weeks to the “Iron Cage”: Van Morrison and the disenchantment of the WorldAdrian Rosenfeldt
12 Jul 2026The case for spiritual sociologyAdrian Rosenfeldt
11 Jul 2026When reality catches up with satire – Message from the EditorMartyn Pearce
5 Jul 2026Why Steinbeck's East of Eden still stands the test of timePaul Giles
4 Jul 2026Why Frankenstein still matters in the age of AIAdrian Rosenfeldt
29 Jun 2026David Hockney – the artist who forced Britain to make room for colour, joy and queernessSimon Mckeown
21 Jun 2026The five best films from Sydney Film FestivalAri Mattes
11 Jun 2026Fifty years of ABC Classic and a nation still listeningStewart Sweeney
24 May 2026“Please try to enjoy each fact equally” – Severance and the fragmentation of modern identityAdrian Rosenfeldt
23 May 2026Allowing loved ones to restIsabella Crebert
16 May 2026Cannes and the courts deliver a sharp rebuke to political silencing – Message from the EditorCatriona Jackson
25 Apr 2026Is Trump actually helping? Message from the EditorCatriona Jackson
19 Apr 2026Friendship, honey and the simple life: 100 years of Winnie‑the‑PoohElizabeth Hale
12 Apr 2026Do people still care about opera? An insider raises some doubtsPeter Tregear
7 Apr 2026A new museum every 1.5 days: what’s driving China’s massive cultural expansionJustine Poplin
24 Mar 2026Randa Abdel-Fattah wins Jerusalem Peace PrizeStuart Rees
19 Mar 2026ABC’s National Forum fails its first test on antisemitismVivienne Porzsolt
15 Mar 2026Seven good films out of ten – a surprisingly strong year for the OscarsAri Mattes
13 Mar 2026Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere exposes the business model of misogynySteven Roberts
9 Mar 2026An invitation to dance: How Bad Bunny builds a movementSarena Neyman
8 Mar 2026Jimpa lovingly follows in the tradition of artwork about fathers who came out of the closetCatherine Freyne
7 Mar 2026For 27 years, the Kyle and Jackie O Show indulged Australia’s most vulgar, sexist impulsesDenis Muller
1 Mar 2026Michael Caine’s voice is iconic. Why would he sell that to AI?Amy Hume
1 Mar 2026Lord of the Flies in the age of TrumpPatricia Edgar
13 Feb 2026Saving Meanjin is a victory – sustaining it is the real testAngela Glindemann
31 Jan 2026As Marmite Morrissey returns, let’s talk about the actual musicGlenn Fosbraey
25 Jan 2026Song Sung Blue: a joyful tribute to enduring partnerships, grit and second chancesPatricia Edgar
24 Jan 2026Linklater and Hawke turn a broken partnership into riveting cinemaPatricia Edgar
17 Jan 2026Censorship doesn’t silence – it amplifiesRaghid Nahhas
15 Jan 2026I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I resigned as director of Adelaide writers’ weekLouise Adler
22 Dec 2025What Australia’s teen social media ban could mean for readingBec Kavanagh
18 Dec 2025Niki Savva’s Earthquake is a damning account of the election that shook AustraliaMark Kenny
16 Dec 2025One UK journalist’s close access to Hitler carries a warning about Trump’s media restrictionsAlexander Howard
16 Dec 2025It's never too late to help students learn to read – even in high schoolCallula Killingly
14 Dec 2025Book extract: Understanding China: governance, socio-economics, global influenceChandran Nair
13 Dec 2025Frankie Goes to Bethlehem: myth, music and the power of loveAdrian Rosenfeldt
12 Oct 2025Bruce Beresford’s The Travellers blends opera and the outback in a heartfelt story about homecomingRuari Elkington
1 Oct 2025Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners 2025: investigating power, privilege and inequalityAlexander Howard
15 Sep 2025Regional arts vital, but neglected, community resourcesDon Edgar
10 Sep 2025The central role of government support for the Arts in defining our national culturePatricia Edgar
6 Sep 2025'Let her voice echo': Hind Rajab film receives record-breaking standing ovation at Venice FestivalRachel Fink
23 Aug 2025Still talkin’ ’bout My GenerationStewart Sweeney
19 Aug 2025Bendigo writers' festival fiascoWarwick McFadyen
19 Aug 2025First they came for the PalestiniansMichael Leunig
10 Aug 2025Spy novelist Stella Rimington, the first female head of MI5, was a ‘true trailblazer’Sue Turnbull
30 Jul 2025Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life-changingCaitlin Macdonald
27 Jul 2025Kazuo Ishiguro said he won the Nobel Prize for making people cry – 20 years later, Never Let Me Go should make us angryMatthew Taft
14 Jul 2025Peter Russell-Clarke’s greatest gift was how he made you feel like one of the familyWendy Hunt
11 Jul 2025The ANU School of Music: Requiem for a Dream?Peter Tregear
8 Jul 2025The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the WestCaitlin Johnstone
6 Jul 2025The takeaway from the Venice Biennale saga: the art world faces deep and troubling structural inequalityGrace McQuilten, Kate MacNeill
4 Jul 2025Creative Australia’s backflip on Venice Biennale representatives exposes deep governance failuresSamuel Cairnduff
9 Jun 2025Palestinian genocide gets some big-screen timeHall Greenland
7 Jun 2025Albanese should remember his childhood – and the rhymes he learntPatricia Edgar
7 Apr 2025‘Adolescence’, misogyny and the power of televisionPatricia Edgar
20 Mar 2025Words under occupationJepke Goudsmit
12 Mar 2025Telling Chinese stories the Chinese way: Why is Ne Zha 2 more than a blockbuster?Wang Nan
29 Dec 2024A chairman and a president walk into a bar: Review of Donald’s InfernoJocelyn Chey
17 Nov 2024Leslie landscape prize attracts superb picturesStephen Downes
10 Nov 2024Political void: The end of the WharfAndrew Fraser
8 Oct 2024John Olsen's gift to the nationRoss Fitzgerald
12 Mar 2024Scholar or ideologue?Richard Cullen
10 Mar 2024Thinking intensely about the holocaust, Israel and GazaRichard Cullen
25 Feb 2024A welcome new approach to economicsBob Douglas
4 Feb 2024When morality and loyalty pull in opposite directionsJocelyn Chey
3 Sep 2023Martin Flanagan’s ‘The Empty Honour Board’ draws us in to an unnatural worldPaddy Gourley
13 Aug 2023Fred Smith: The Sparrows of KabulTony Smith
8 Aug 2023Book review: The Next Civil War: dispatches from the American futureAdam Bartley
23 Jul 2023Carefully throwing stonesJulianne Schultz
23 Jul 2023Searching for Elsewhere: Born into a cult. How to survive?Victor Branson
12 Mar 2023"A narcissist always searching for a new niche?" Brendan Nelson’s autobiography: Part 1David Stephens
8 Jan 2023Will prospects for long-term human survival improve in 2023?Bob Douglas
31 Dec 2022Terry Irving, The fatal lure of Politics: the life and thought of Vere Gordon ChildeTony Smith
8 Nov 2022Why Labor can’t be trusted with Australia’s security. It started with US Marines in DarwinMike Gilligan
22 Aug 2022Dismantling global white privilege: Book by Chandran Nair-Equity for a post-western worldJohn Menadue
19 Aug 2022Infrastructure Australia should be abolishedJohn Austen
14 Aug 2022Nuclear non-proliferation treaty review conference in historical contextDennis Argall
12 Aug 2022Defence reviews; what are they good for?Mike Scrafton
14 Jul 2022Remarks on the Australia-China divide at the AsiaLink launch of Happy Together, by David Walker and Li Yao.Gareth Evans
16 Apr 2022Keeping them honest: A book reviewFrank Brennan
9 Apr 2022“South Flows the Pearl” Book launch speech about Chinese Australian voicesJocelyn Chey
3 Oct 2021Crossword clues and bullying: the almighty power of the Australian pro-Israel lobbyKim Wingerei
26 Sep 2021Review: The shock, horror and rage of Mark Willacy's Rogue ForcesVacy Vlazna
19 Sep 2021Answers to Trump questions about attacking China and IranRichard Butler
15 Aug 2021Misreading Dark EmuGillian Cowlishaw
15 Aug 2021Review: 'Human Kind' by Rutger BregmanTed Trainer
8 Aug 2021Bringing 'the Doc' to the masses - review of Gideon Haigh's new bookAndrew Fraser
8 Aug 2021Ships in the Night: A Vietnam war story, by Greg DoddsRichard Broinowski
26 Jul 2021A review of 'The Dance of Folly: or how theatrics have tarnished the rule of law in Hong KongRichard Cullen
4 Jul 2021The Mountbattens: the British Establishment at its most privileged and eccentric.Margaret O’Connor
17 Jun 2021Unsettled - seeing First Nations histories represented in the Australian MuseumKirsten Thorpe, Lauren Booker
8 Jun 2021China Panic: Australia’s alternative to paranoia and pandering by David BrophyColin Mackerras
30 May 2021Everyman as soldier: how men in suits in drawing rooms conned the people – and their families – into fighting on in WW1.David Stephens
28 Apr 2021Douglas Newton's Private Ryan and how peace efforts were sabotaged in WW1Tony Smith
21 Mar 2021'Mr Sin' aka Abe Saffron had a little mate at ASIO headquartersAlex Mitchell
16 Mar 2021Beyond apocalypse fatigueIan McAuley
5 Mar 2021A tepid cry for change: Tanya Plibersek's book "Upturn" and Labor's prospectsRichard Hil, Stuart Rees
17 Feb 2021What's the point of Labor?Noel Turnbull
5 Feb 2021Upturn: all too familiar ideas but an advance on Coalition's limited offeringsMichael Keating
2 Feb 2021Inspirational heroes abound – discover and promote themKevin Bain
24 Jan 2021There's nothing entrepreneurial about Rentier Capitalism, as it sucks up more of the wealth pieThe Irish Times
17 Jan 2021Humanity in medicine. The life of physician Dr Stanley GoulstonMichael Pain
24 Sep 2020Review: Cruelty or Humanity by Stuart ReesVacy Vlazna
22 Sep 2020P&I ISSUES in Stuart Rees’ Cruelty or Humanity , Bristol: Policy Press  2020Stuart Rees
17 Sep 2020What can possibly be done with our political and policy malaise.Part 1.John Kerin
7 Aug 2020Exposing the Hidden HandJocelyn Chey
16 Jul 2020Book Review: "Hidden Hand" – Exposing how the Chinese communist party is reshaping the world (The Conversation 10.7.20)Andrew Podger
29 Apr 2020KIM WINGEREI. My week with Malcolm and a faltering democracy.Kim Wingerei
16 Apr 2020JUDITH WHITE. The Australia Council latest funding - the arts betrayed.Judith White
1 Apr 2020GREG LOCKHART.- Quarantined in the Jazz AgeGreg Lockhart
6 Mar 2020MARK BUCKLEY. Rita Hayworth via Graham GreenMark Buckley
5 Mar 2020JUDITH WHITE. Whatever happened to Whitlam’s vision for the arts?Judith White
30 Dec 2019DAVID SHEARMAN.-Doctors urged to engage with water policy concerns and a timely reviewDavid Shearman
7 Oct 2019David Walker's Stranded NationGreg Lockhart
17 Sep 2019JOHN MENADUE. 'Things you learn along the way'.John Menadue
2 Sep 2019JUDITH WHITE. NSW arts policy officially in ruinsJudith White
14 May 2019GRAHAM FREUDENBERG. Vale Evan WilliamsJohn Menadue
7 May 2019KATE McDOWELL. Together or not in the performing arts.John Menadue
2 May 2019GRAHAM ENGLISH. Virtue signallers, the left wing, and the politically correctJohn Menadue
25 Apr 2019ANDREW FROST. Alternative Histories, the ANZAC legend re-imagined on canvasJohn Menadue
1 Jan 2019CLAIR WILLS. Prodigal Fathers (The New York Review of Books).John Menadue
28 Dec 2018MICHAEL MULLINS. Abstract thinkers living in bubbles.Michael Mullins
30 Nov 2018ROBERT KUTTNER. The crash that failed.John Menadue
28 Nov 2018GREG LOCKHART. On reading Peter Stanley’s review of Peter Cochrane’s Best We Forget.Greg Lockhart
27 Nov 2018ANTHONY PUN. A response to Kim Wingerei -. It’s Time for Ethical Politics”Anthony Pun
27 Oct 2018LIONEL ORCHARD. Hugh Stretton in retrospect and prospect: reflections on Graeme Davison's selected writings.Lionel Orchard
10 Oct 2018SUSAN CHENERY. The Scribe: portrait of Freudenberg, author of the speech that changed Australia (The Guardian 9.10.2018)John Menadue
19 May 2018TONY DOHERTY. Review of Hugh Mackay's "Australia Reimagined - Towards a compassionate, less anxious society".Hugh Mackay
9 May 2018SUSAN RYAN. Book launch. 'Jesus the forgotten feminist' by Chris Geraghty.Susan Ryan (Dec'd)
8 May 2018CHRIS GERAGHTY. Jesus – The Forgotten Feminist.Chris Geraghty
21 Apr 2018GREG HAMILTON. Not much ado about a helluva lot.John Menadue
27 Jan 2018KIM WINGEREI. Book review of "Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom" by Thomas E. Hicks, Pulitzer Prize winner.Kim Wingerei
5 Oct 2017RAMESH THAKUR. Incorrigible Optimist by Gareth Evans, a Political Memoir - A review-Part 1of 2Ramesh Thakur
26 Sep 2017JOHN TULLOH. Through the Iron Curtain to Moscow and across Siberia 50 years ago.John Tulloh
12 Sep 2017EVAN WILLIAMS. Dunkirk - film review.John Menadue
4 Aug 2017RAWDON DALRYMPLE. A personal link to World War One.John Menadue
11 Jul 2017JUDITH WHITE. Risks of gallery expansionJudith White
25 May 2017KIERAN TAPSELL. 'The Attachment' by Ailsa Piper and Tony Doherty.Kieran Tapsell
17 May 2017JUDITH WHITE. Arts policy and the need to counter the undermining of public cultural institutionsJudith White
26 Apr 2017MARK COLVIN. “Four Weeks One Summer” by Nicholas WhitlamJohn Menadue
26 Apr 2017ALISON BROINOWSKI. What Australian Foreign Policy?Alison Broinowski
27 Dec 2016SUSAN RYAN. Book review. The Dark Flood Rises: Margaret Drabble.Susan Ryan (Dec'd)
22 Nov 2016RICHARD LETTS. National Opera Review: propping up the 19th CenturyRichard Letts
10 Oct 2016Gough Whitlam and Blue Poles.John Menadue
26 Sep 2016ALISON BROINOWSKI. Your laptop is watching you: 'Snowden' the movie.Alison Broinowski
1 Sep 2016EVAN WILLIAMS. Film review: TrumanJohn Menadue
29 Aug 2016MILTON MOON. Waiting for Godness -a narrative poemJohn Menadue
15 Jun 2016EVAN WILLIAMS. 'Money Monster'. Film ReviewJohn Menadue
31 May 2016EVAN WILLIAMS. Chasing Asylum. Film Review.John Menadue
9 May 2016Julianne Schultz. Australia must act now to preserve its culture in the face of global tech giants. Brian Johns Annual LectureJohn Menadue
7 May 2016Kim Williams. Fair use does not mean free: Copyright recommendations would crush Australian contentJohn Menadue
30 Apr 2016Evan Williams. 'A Month of Sundays'. Film ReviewJohn Menadue
9 Apr 2016Evan Williams. Rams. Film ReviewJohn Menadue
22 Mar 2016Evan Williams. 'The Daughter' film reviewJohn Menadue
12 Mar 2016Evan Williams. The Lady in the Van. Film ReviewJohn Menadue
2 Mar 2016Evan Williams. Oscars and other frivolitiesJohn Menadue
1 Mar 2016Evan Williams. Film review ‘Spotlight’John Menadue
26 Feb 2016Laurie Patton. Pirates of Perchance: How “site-blocking” could force up Internet fees but do little elseLaurie Patton
22 Feb 2016Evan Williams. Film review. 'Trumbo' (M)John Menadue
9 Feb 2016Ravi. Poems from detention.John Menadue
1 Feb 2016Evan Williams. Film review: 'The Big Short'John Menadue
20 Jan 2016Evan Williams. Film Review: Carol.John Menadue
12 Jan 2016Evan Williams. Film Review: Paolo Sorrentino's 'Youth'John Menadue
5 Jan 2016John Menadue. 'The Big Short'John Menadue
25 Oct 2015Ranald Macdonald. The ABC and SBS are under attack.John Menadue
24 Oct 2015Richard Letts. Mitch Fifield should dump it while he can.Richard Letts