The view from elsewhere Chaos and cruelty David J. Bier 6 February 2025 Joe Biden fixed the immigration system that Trump is once again smashing National affairs Forgetting robodebt Paddy Gourley 5 February 2025 A new report on Services Australia highlights the failings of public service capability reviews Books & arts Learning from Hefei Michael Gill 5 February 2025 Economic and political ...

National affairs Slippery slopes Chris Bonnor 26 August 2024 NAPLAN’s scorecard has been back in the news, but could those test results be hiding a more important failure? National affairs Manufacturing’s security blanket Saul Eslake 26 August 2024 Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured …

Nov 22, 2024 · Since hearings began last December, the inquiry has heard forty-three days of testimony. Searches ordered by the inquiry have generated some 52,000 pages of documents that have been digitised and made easily available on computer terminals, and proceedings have been live-screened and transcribed for public access.. Facing Acting Justice Hulme are …

Essays & reportage Parliament makes history Frank Bongiorno & Joshua Black 6 August 2024 Following a heated double-dissolution election, both houses met jointly for the first time ever on 6–7 August 1974 Essays & reportage “The election that never was” Jenny Hocking and Allison Cadzow 5 August 2024 Gough Whitlam’s 1974 gamble on a …

Sep 10, 2021 · Truth-telling has political significance, and sometimes it avows a political purpose. The Uluru Statement suggested a political context for truth-telling: “We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.”

Aug 4, 2020 · Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, Captain James Cook famously staked a claim to much of this country. In an entry in his journal on 22 August 1770 he described how he and a party of men had landed on the island at the northern tip of the continent that he would shortly call Possession Island, the name being a way …

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Reconciliation celebrated a double anniversary this year. It’s been thirty years since the federal government formally committed to reconciliation in 1991 with the passage of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act, and twenty-five years since the launch of National Reconciliation Week.. In the three decades since the legislation passed, the federal government process has been through ...

Mike Smith (1955–2022), a great Australian archaeologist, died in Canberra on Sunday 16 October.As his family announced, “he put down his tools and hung up his hat.” A week before his death he was walking his beloved dog, writing a scientific paper, riding his recliner-bike around Lake Burley Griffin, converting cabbage from his garden into kimchi and no doubt cooking his famed custard ...

Nov 22, 2024 · National affairs Treaty-making gathers pace Harry Hobbs 17 March 2023 Most state and territory governments have commenced negotiations with First Nation peoples National affairs Just remind me, what is the Constitution? Peter Brent 15 February 2023 There are good reasons to be sceptical about recent polling on the Voice referendum Books & arts A dictionary for the future Michael Dillon 1 ...