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WEB5 days ago · Angels and demons Mark Baker 8 August 2024 The military hierarchy took a dim view of aircrew traumatised by their experiences over Nazi Germany Parliament makes history Frank Bongiorno & Joshua Black 6 August 2024 Following a heated double-dissolution election, both houses met jointly for the first time ever on …
migration • Topic • Inside Story
WEBAug 28, 2024 · migration. Peter Dutton’s road to nowhere Peter Brent 28 August 2024 The opposition leader has an electorally ineffective obsession. Poor at politics, strong on policy Peter Mares 2 August 2024 Andrew Giles’s record as immigration minister stands up remarkably well Distant crimes, nearby perpetrators Hamish McDonald 10 May 2024 Under ...
Finding the Moree way • Inside Story
WEBJun 11, 2021 · My own drive from Walgett to Moree last month was more peaceful than back then. Three years earlier, in 2018, I had visited Bourke, about 440 kilometres west of Moree along the same outback highway. Bourke had embarked on what has become Australia’s most successful bid by its Aboriginal people to use a …
Digging deeper into a 65,000 year story • Inside Story
WEBIt is a complex, contoured and ongoing history of human endurance and achievement in the face of great social, environmental and climatic change. And last week, in a landmark Nature paper, it was pushed back to 65,000 years. Dating the earliest human occupation at 65,000 years ago is a dramatic step, and it throws up questions that are not ...
Invisible women - Inside Story
WEBApr 8, 2018 · In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in an English vicarage married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Jane Austen novel, that would be the end of the story, but for the woman who would play an integral part in establishing Australia’s wool industry, it was just the beginning. Elizabeth Macarthur landed at …
The place of reconciliation • Inside Story
WEBReconciliation celebrated a double anniversary this year. It’s been thirty years since the federal government formally committed to reconciliation in 1991 with the passage of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act, and twenty-five years since the launch of National Reconciliation Week.. In the three decades since the legislation passed, the federal government process has been through ...
The long road to recognition - Inside Story
WEBMay 19, 2017 · Over the past six months, from Hobart to Broome and Adelaide to Thursday Island, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have reclaimed the movement towards constitutional recognition at twelve historic First Nation Regional Dialogues.On 23–26 May, on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 constitutional referendum, representatives from each dialogue will meet at Uluru for the first ...
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Reading Bruce Pascoe • Inside Story
WEBNov 26, 2019 · Whatever Bruce Pascoe is saying, Australians clearly want to hear it now. And he has responded generously to the call, touring the continent tirelessly these past few years, accepting invitations to speak to audiences of all kinds in both city and bush. Apparently indefatigable in his early seventies, he reminds us of the enduring power of book ...
Books & arts • Category - Inside Story
WEBBooks & arts. The kin red line Robin Jeffrey 3 September 2024 Excavating family histories in India, Pakistan and Australia. In Germany, “it’s not over yet” Klaus Neumann 30 August 2024 An 800-page book and a four-hour film raise uncomfortable questions about an enduring Nazi past Breaking better Nick Haslam 28 August 2024 A compelling ...