The Vernacular Republic

12 Mar 2012 | It’s been just on 35 years since Les Murray’s 'The Vernacular Republic' selection of poems was ...  

REVIEW of Our Corrupt Legal System by Evan Whitton

22 Jan 2012 | John Turnbull reviews five-time Walkley Award winning journalist Evan Whitton’s latest book ...  

A Private Life with Michael Kirby

23 Nov 2011 | Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby’s new autobiography ‘A Private Life’ sets the record ...  

Unfolding republican futures

27 Sep 2011 | Australia’s emerging republican speculative fiction genre includes a number of examples where ...  

Cry and Die! The tearful fate of opera heroines

18 Sep 2011 | [caption id="attachment_10195" align="alignright" caption="by Dr Jone Gaillard"][/caption] Lit ...  

Readers Niche: everything about literature except the books

3 Aug 2011 | Readers' Niche is a unique online Australian store, selling everything relating to literature — ...  

Glenn Patmore's 'Choosing the Republic': a review

1 Aug 2011 | Professor John Warhurst reviews Glenn Patmore's book,  'Choosing the Republic', which sets out ...  

Things we didn't see coming: An imagined unimaginable future

28 Jul 2011 | Creating an Australian republic is a speculative project. To bring about change, you must first ...  

Henry Lawson, sedition and 'Blood on the wattle'

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3rd national republican short story competition opens

7 Jul 2011 | Entry to the Third National Republican Short Story Competition is now open. The theme for the ...  

Independent Australia turns one today

24 Jun 2011 | Independent Australia began in turbulent times, being launched on the fateful day Julia Gillard ...  

The history of denial: the truth is out there

5 Jun 2011 | In Tony Taylor’s 2008 work Denial: History Betrayed, the often baffling story of historical ...  

Elizabeth Jolley prize fitting tribute to a great Australian writer

12 May 2011 | [caption id="attachment_6779" align="alignleft" width="150"] Contributing editor-at-large Tess ...  

As bold as BRASS

9 May 2011 | The business of condensed books has given Frank O'Shea a brilliant money-making idea — that ...  

Ned Kelly and reimagined Australian history

11 Apr 2011 | In March 2010, one of Sidney Nolan’s famous paintings from his early Ned Kelly series, First- ...  

Royalty brought down to earth in film and print

8 Apr 2011 | Queen Elizabeth II will be visiting Australia later in the year to attend the Commonwealth Heads ...  

Help Hugh Lunn save the Australian language

24 Mar 2011 | Are we losing our Australian language – our unique phrases and manner of speech – to the ...  

The internet and the decline of book reading

7 Mar 2011 | Has the internet killed book reading? Tim Badrick says it has...and he doesn't like it. Not ...