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REVIEW: The Butterfly Women

Belinda Donovan reviews historical romance thriller, 'The Butterfly Women', by Madeleine Cleary. ...  
The Butterfly Women: Murder and survival in colonial Melbourne

Madeleine Cleary’s ‘The Butterfly Women’ brings colonial Melbourne to life in a gripping ...  
Declassified files expose Chile coup links to Whitlam’s Dismissal

Documents reveal how Australia’s covert role in Chile’s 1973 coup fed the tensions that ...  
Republic campaign reignited by evidence of royal involvement in Whitlam sacking

Fresh scrutiny of royal interference in Whitlam’s Dismissal has renewed calls for Australia to ...  
Bearing witness: The Dismissal

Fifty years ago, as a young press photographer, I photographed Gough Whitlam the day after the ...  
Malcolm Fraser and governing after The Dismissal

Malcolm Fraser’s legacy is one of contradictions — the conservative reformer who came to power ...  
Awed Albo abandons republic (and Australia's dignity) in haste to embrace King Charles

Albo's recent meeting with Charles Windsor and avid declaration that Australia would not beco ...  
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EDITORIAL: Awed Albo abandons republic (and Australia's dignity) in haste to embrace King Charles

Albo's recent meeting with Charles Windsor and avidly declaration that Australia would not beco ...  
Malcolm Fraser and the road to The Dismissal

The 50th anniversary of The Dismissal is an apposite moment to look again at Malcolm Fraser as the ...  
Abbott’s version of Australian history draws criticism for outdated views

Tony Abbott’s new book attempts to revive an outdated ‘three cheers’ narrative of White ...  
The role of the United States in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government

In 1975, Australia lost more than a Prime Minister — it lost its independence. The CIA’s ...  
The racism we refuse to see: Australia’s silence on Papua New Guinea

Australia’s token gestures of reconciliation ring hollow while Papua New Guinea, our closest ...  
Fighting Australia’s complicity in genocide — we’ve been here before

When governments refuse to act, it has always fallen to workers and communities to halt Austral ...  
50 years of truth-telling about Australia’s racist past

Marking half a century since its groundbreaking first edition, Exclusion, Exploitation and Exte ...  
Cracking the code: How Brisbane helped invent the digital age

Long before smartphones and streaming, a secret room in wartime Brisbane helped usher in the ...  
Why Keating’s greatest speeches still matter after the Voice failed

Paul Keating’s Redfern and War Memorial speeches, written over 30 years ago, remain a powerful ...  
Docklands remembered: 'Last Light on Victoria Dock, 1999'

For 25 years, timeless images of Melbourne's historic maritime gateway have been stored in a draw ...  
When the lights went out on Victoria Dock

Photojournalist Bill McAuley made a pilgrimage to Docklands in the late '90s to catalogue what ...  
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