The voice of an Independent Australia

24 Jun 2012 | Today is Independent Australia’s second birthday. I remember how two years ago the first article ...  

Challenging Australia and speaking truth to power

24 Jun 2012 | Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence salutes Independent Australia for challenging the ...  

The Australian scapegoat reflex

18 Jun 2012 | Bob Ellis considers the cases of Lindy Chamberlain and Craig Thomson — and wonders why Austra ...  

Finding America's past in Australia's present

23 May 2012 | Acclaimed U.S. journalist and writer James Moore takes a 5,000 mile motorbike ride around Austr ...  

On Australian mateship

7 May 2012 | Today is the day known as Labour Day in Queensland and the Northern Territory. It is an important ...  

At the going down of the sun we will forget them

5 May 2012 | Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence writes that the loyalty and service of veterans has ...  

The Australian identity crisis

26 Apr 2012 |   It’s time Australian children were taught something positive and interesting about ...  

ANZAC Day and colonialism

25 Apr 2012 |   ANZAC Day mostly celebrates the betrayal of Australian soldiers in the name of empire ...  

The ANZAC Day debt

25 Apr 2012 |   What does ANZAC Day mean to Australians? More than we can ever repay, says managing ...  

The redemption of Owen Campbell and the sorry state of Australian music

24 Apr 2012 |   In a grim reminder of how the Australian music industry works, a contrite Owen Campbell ...  

Cold Chisel and Khe Sanh

23 Mar 2012 | The 2011 Light the Nitro Tour was the reformed Australian band Cold Chisel’s biggest tour in 30 ...  

Australian National Endangered Treasures

14 Mar 2012 | Following Clive Palmer’s Australian National Living Treasure Award on March 4, by March 8 we ...  

The Vernacular Republic

12 Mar 2012 | It’s been just on 35 years since Les Murray’s 'The Vernacular Republic' selection of poems was ...  

The case for an Australian Republic

2 Mar 2012 | The time for an Australian Republic is now, said IA managing editor David Donovan in a speech made ...  

Worimi Worobung Custodian and the Guardian Healing Tree

28 Feb 2012 | Ruth Forsythe investigates the “extra” in the ordinary as she shares a contemporary tale of a ...  

Why the role of our Head of State is important

18 Feb 2012 | [caption id="attachment_13959" align="alignright" caption="by Senator Lisa Singh"][/caption] In a ...  

The fantasies and follies of Flint

16 Feb 2012 | David Flint’s rantings and slurs on anyone who disagrees with him is a disgrace to the monarc ...  

More monarchist fibs about the flag

14 Feb 2012 | According to the ACM, when Barry Everingham writes something on this website, this is meant to be ...