On Disruption: An insider’s view of the collapse of journalism

15 Jul 2018 | Can journalism and the news industry survive the perfect storm of digital disruption? Dr Martin ...  

Resisting Leviathan: Why I’m a rebel

10 Jun 2018 | Political editor, Dr Martin Hirst, has been back to the history books. This week he argues that it ...  

John Koch finds a 'Portal to the Dreamtime' in his own backyard

20 May 2018 | Romaine Rutnam reviews John Koch’s book, 'Portal to the Dreamtime', that tells the story of his ...  

How the ‘Kardashians of Aussie Communism’ kept up with the Jones'

23 Mar 2018 | The strange and twisting tale of the Yugoslavian spy, the Nazi hunter, the ABC journalist and the ...  

Review: 'This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future'

18 Mar 2018 | Romaine Rutnam reviews Dr Benjamin T. Jones' new book calling for a Republic of Australia based on ...  

Review: 'False Claims of Colonial Thieves'

10 Mar 2018 | Dr Laurie Keim reviews a new, rich book of poetry and, within it, he traces the fault lines in the ...  

Game of Mates: Exposing the corruption club

9 Mar 2018 | Favours, grey gifts and mutual back-scratching can be profitable when you're part of a loyal ...  

Frankenstein's bicentenary, Barnaby Joyce and the return of the undead

4 Mar 2018 | Dr Glenn Davies examines Mary Shelley's timeless cautionary tale, our endless fascination with ...  

Review: 'Maaate! Bribe-proofing the public purse against good blokes'

10 Jan 2018 | Robert Jones reviews 'Maaate! Bribe-proofing the public purse against good blokes' — a harrowing ...  

Is the World Full Yet?

10 Dec 2017 | With spiralling population growth, what is the world going to look like in 120 years? A new book ...  

Bridging Troubled Waters: Australia and asylum seekers

30 Nov 2017 | A new book on Australian refugee policy aims to be a bipartisan guide to change, but avoids the ...  

Asylum by Boat: Origins of Australia's refugee policy

4 Nov 2017 | Kevin Bain reviews a new book by Claire Higgins which traces the origins of Australia's asylum ...  

Moral Panic 101: Safe Schools and the new folk devils

26 Oct 2017 | Many social scientists of an older generation will have felt a warm glow at the appearance of ...  

From Left to Right and back again: The Donald Horne enigma

15 Oct 2017 | A new selection of writings by iconoclastic social commentator and historian Donald Horne has ...  

BOOK REVIEWS: Islamism, totalitarianism and the Islamic State

8 Oct 2017 | Kevin Bain reviews a new book on whether Islamism is "totalitarian", as well as Robert Manne's ...  

The best aphorisms are usually said with no intention of being quoted

2 Oct 2017 | A new collection of all-Australian quotes, The Wisdom of Oz: Australian aphorisms from the ...  

Militarism and its contribution to global warming

26 Sep 2017 | Geoffrey Murray reviews Marty Branagan's 'Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence'.  

Frank Walker's 'Traitors: Why Australia and its allies betrayed our Anzacs'

19 Sep 2017 | Bilal Cleland discusses the depth of the betrayal of Australian forces by the post-war settlements ...