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3 days ago · National affairs. Leaders and leaders Mark Baker 4 November 2024 Ahead of this week’s presidential election, billionaire newspaper owners have created a furore by blocking their editors’ endorsements. Jason Clare’s dead parrot Dean Ashenden 24 October 2024 Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed.
Imperial reckoning • Inside Story
It was then that the idea of measuring the Empire on an historical–moral scale began to emerge. A key work was Margery Perham’s book, The Colonial Reckoning, based on her 1961 Reith lectures and published the following year. Perham was a leading historian of colonial administration, especially in Africa, and the lectures were a late-career ...
The affair that never happened • Inside Story
2 days ago · The Canadian–Norwegian production focuses on the sixties-spanning relationship between Cohen and his muse Marianne Ihlen, which started on the island of Hydra in mid 1960 and was all but exhausted by decade’s end. The story of that relationship — shifting between Hydra, Oslo, Montreal and New York — is told in parallel with that of ...
AI through the looking glass • Inside Story
2 days ago · Vallor’s mirror is an productive way of thinking about AI. The world through the AI looking glass is a warped reflection we should be cautious about staring at for too long, lest we confuse it for reality. The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. By Shannon Vallor | Oxford University Press | $55.95 | 272 pages.
Opening doors in Central Australia • Inside Story
Oct 31, 2024 · Share. The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary F.W. Albrecht, his former student Lorna Wilson, and Lorna’s son Barry. Albrecht, who had come to Australia in 1925, worked in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the 1950s.
Getting the referendum wrong • Inside Story
Nov 6, 2023 · What is the meaning of last month’s resounding defeat of the Voice referendum? According to the Australian’s Paul Kelly, it “exposes Australia as two different societies — a confident, educated, city-based middle class and a pessimistic, urban and rural battler constituency” that is “hostile” to “change.”. This split, he believes, is …
The strange career of the great Australian silence - Inside Story
Nov 15, 2022 · “The history I would like to see written would bring into the main flow of its narrative the life and times of men like David Unaipon, Albert Namatjira, Robert Tudawali, Durmugam, Douglas Nicholls, Dexter Daniels, and many others.Not to scrape up significance for them but because they typify so vividly the other side of a story over which the great Australian silence reigns; the story of the ...
The wait of history • Inside Story
May 7, 2021 · Books & arts Let them not eat Tip Truck Cake Anne-Marie Condé 31 October 2024 Triple-tested in its own kitchen, the Women’s Weekly’s recipes helped shape Australian tastes. But it had its rivals Books & arts “Got a light?” Jim Davidson 24 October 2024 Peter Parker has trawled widely to produce a documentary history of gay life in London from postwar repression to the hope induced by ...
A selection of recent Inside Story review essays • Inside Story
Inside Story. Gabrielle Carey gives us James Joyce in eighty-four bite-sized pieces. Peter Marks reviews the result. Donald Horne, citizen intellectual A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country, writes Frank Bongiorno Buckle and strain In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has ...
The place of reconciliation • Inside Story
The Reconciliation Barometer tells us that the vast majority of Australia’s general community believe in the importance of truth-telling processes as a means “to acknowledge the reality of Australia’s shared history.”. But it also tells us that large numbers of people remain doubtful about what truths our national history might hold.