The gentle soul of gentleman Jimmy Little

3 Apr 2012 |   Jimmy Little was a gentle soul with a honey-sweet voice who trailblazed a path for other ...  

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 ...  

ANZACS and US Forces have long battled together

2 Mar 2012 | The first time Australian forces fought alongside American troops was in WW1, at the famous and ...  

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 ...  

Keeping our promises to West Papuans

13 Feb 2012 | Unless we wake up to ourselves soon, says Kim Peart, Australians may end up with only as much ...  

National Service for Menzies and the Queen

11 Feb 2012 | In 1951, "Menzies introduced National Service to provide partially trained soldiers to send ...  

Charred hearts and incinerated souls

7 Feb 2012 | [caption id="attachment_12313" align="alignright" caption="by contributing editor-at-large Tess ...  

The Boer War beginning of global press manipulation

5 Feb 2012 | There has been a great deal of coverage recently in the Leveson Inquiry on the manipulative ...  

A house divided

30 Jan 2012 | “Exclusionary nationalism is a sickness caused by the divisive and opportunistic leadership of ...  

Australia Day in black and white

26 Jan 2012 | AUSTRALIA DAY IN BLACK AND WHITE "Many of our people call it invasion day," said Mr Mick Dodson ...  

100th anniversary of 1912 Brisbane General Strike

18 Jan 2012 |  

The sad cherub of Susannah

16 Jan 2012 |   "Winged cherubs are often found on gravestones for babies from the early colonial peri ...  

A woman's work

15 Jan 2012 | [caption id="attachment_13123" align="alignleft" caption="Mabel Engeman (pictured in 1914)"][/c ...  

Our history does early Australian convict women a grave injustice

13 Jan 2012 | Early female convicts transported to Australia have had their reputations unfairly tarnished by ...  

Australia’s oldest Republican Party turns 30

12 Jan 2012 | Last night the Republican Party of Australia celebrated its 30th Birthday with a lavish dinner in ...  

Real inglorious bastards

8 Jan 2012 | Most Vietnam veterans are the finest of men, says fellow veteran and bestselling author Don ...  

The repellant Australian poetry scene

30 Dec 2011 | Independent Australia managing editor David Donovan has been repelled by the self-obsessed, ...