Australian History
IA Book Club: Lachlan Macquarie's dismissal

Grace Karskens of the Sydney Morning Herald described The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery as ...  
Criminal or hero: The life of ‘Breaker’ Morant

On the anniversary of the execution of "Breaker" Morant, history editor Dr Glenn Davies examines ...  
Indigenous Australians: 'This is the torment of our powerlessness' 

As called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a First Nations Voice enshrined in the ...  
Australians look in vain for independent foreign policy

One of the most disturbing features of contemporary politics is the almost complete absence of any ...  
IA BOOK CLUB: 'Country — Future Fire, Future Farming', by Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe

Dermot Daley reviews a valuable historical account that explores successful farming by Indigenous ...  
Tudge flags freedom of speech while whitewashing Australia's past

Education Minister Alan Tudge continues to argue that an obscure version of our history – one ...  
Conservatives like Tudge think they need history but not historians

Conservative politicians and historians are always bound to clash, write Paul Taucher and Dr Dean ...  
IA Book Club: The Crime of Not Knowing Your Crime – Ric Throssell Against ASIO

Jim Kable reviews a book by Karen Throssell about the injustice suffered by her father in his ...  
Morrison's 'sub-par' performance tanks Australia's national identity

Morrison's tanking of the Australian-French submarine deal in favour of the AUKUS pact signals to ...  
Tudge sore over suggestion we question Anzac Day

Education Minister Alan Tudge should look closely at history before criticising expert's proposed ...  
Melbourne: It's a shame about the name

It’s a bit sad that our southern city bears the name of a drudge like William Lamb. Maybe it's ...  
IA BOOK CLUB: Chris Bowen's 'Labor People'

Craig Minns unpacks Chris Bowen's new book, 'Labor People: The Stories of Six True Believers' ...  
IA Book Club: The Shortest History of War

Jim Kable reviews Gwynne Dyer's 'The Shortest History of War', which looks at the comparative role ...  
First Nations Voice to Parliament: It's time to rethink democracy

A new approach to democracy is needed to fight the Federal Government's failure to deliver First ...  
Release of Mountbatten diaries significant in accessing secret history

An immense trove of the most important royal historical material for decades has quietly been ...  
Morrison’s recession: Australia’s worst since records have been kept

Recent data confirms Australia’s economy is currently being managed more ineptly than at any ...  
Turnbull wrong to reject Uluru Statement From the Heart

Successive Federal Governments have continued to get away with extinguishing Aboriginal land ...  
Lest we forget the real truth of Simpson and his donkey

On ANZAC Day, let’s remember Simpson as neither sinner nor saint, but a man who took the same ...  
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