AUST1st: Australian Unity and Sovereignty First (Part 1)

30 Jul 2015 | In the first of a four-part series, Ross Garrad lays out a roadmap showing how we can get from our ...  

Peter FitzSimons to spearhead renewed Republic push

27 Jul 2015 | Author, journalist and Australian rugby union international Peter FitzSimons has been appointed ...  

Can Abbott or Shorten ever re-ignite the Light on the Hill?

23 Jul 2015 | With both Abbott and Shorten hitting rock bottom in the latest poll, Australians feel short-cha ...  

Wukidi! The reconcilation of McColl and Wirrpanda

22 Jul 2015 | In 1933, a police constable was speared by an Indigenous man in the Northern Territory. In 2003 ...  

Australian Ab-Originals: Why Tony Abbott needs to take a closer look

26 Jun 2015 | DNA evidence shows that Australia's Original people have been here 400,000 years or longer making ...  

Happy fifth birthday, Independent Australia

24 Jun 2015 | Independent Australia turns five today. History editor Dr Glenn Davies looks back over the last ...  

Paul Keating’s republican vision — 20 years on

7 Jun 2015 | Today, 7 June 2015, is the 20th anniversary of former Prime Minister Paul Keating's 'The Way ...  

Sorry Day sadness and the widening gap

26 May 2015 | We are now now than seven years on from Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generation, yet Indi ...  

An Australian Republic — or Fourth in Line as Australia’s Head of State?

20 May 2015 | Earlier this month, a baby was born, instantly becoming fourth in line to be Australian head of ...  

Has the land of the "fair go" now "fair gone"?

15 May 2015 | Do we want Australia to be known for compassionate solutions to asylum seekers or held up by the ...  

The Budget, the UK election, the Murdoch media and the fragility of power

11 May 2015 | A week in Canberra watching Abbott and Hockey rearranging the figures from the Budget to try to ...  

Megalogenis’ paean to neoliberalism — faith versus evidence

1 May 2015 | Why did the mainstream commentariat almost universally share George Megalogenis' claim that ...  

Anzacs behaving badly: Scott McIntyre & contested history

30 Apr 2015 | Given the grimmer aspects of Australian military history, there is a clear public disconnect ...  

Isn't it time we had an Indigenous Memorial Day?

30 Apr 2015 | Rarely have Indigenous peoples been recognised for their sacrifices to protect their home from ...  

The minute silence in our Australian schools

25 Apr 2015 | The Anzac Day tradition is not only powerfully strong in schools all around Australia, says ...  

Anzac Digger and Irish Rebel in a clash of potent national symbols

24 Apr 2015 | Like the “Anzac legend”, the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin is symbolic of that country’s ...  

Anzac Day 2015: The end of the RSL 'century'?

23 Apr 2015 | What is the future of the RSL? Half the current members are WWII veterans and the great majority ...  

Atatürk’s famous words of 1934 in doubt

21 Apr 2015 | New evidence shows the famous 'Johnnies and Mehmets' quote attributed to the father of modern ...