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6 days ago · Correspondents The Keir Starmer conundrum David Hayes 25 November 2024 British Labour’s early missteps are sullying its promise of renewal. The prime minister, unmoved, is reaching for the stars Correspondents Neither triumph nor Trumped Michael Jacobs 25 November 2024 Another cliffhanger climate conference achieves a kind of progress Essays & reportage The phoenix Helen Ennis 22 November ...
Why did Australia reject the Voice? • Inside Story
Jun 28, 2024 · In The End of Settlement: Why the 2023 Referendum Failed Damien Freeman also tells a story of missed opportunities for dialogue. But Freeman traces the failure back to the Referendum Council, which assisted Indigenous Australians to establish a consensus position (expressed in the 2017 Uluru Statement) but did nothing “to engage with the range of different perspectives that non-Indigenous ...
Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice? • Inside Story
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 …
Making their political mark • Inside Story
Nov 18, 2024 · Some institutions have as their very mission to shape understanding of political memory. That is true of the National Archives Australia. Its eventually unsuccessful legal battle with Jenny Hocking over release of the Palace Letters is a reminder of how reliant we are on access to original documents if we are to undertake honest, well-informed appraisal of …
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A steady path to sovereignty? • Inside Story
Oct 6, 2023 · The Yes/No alignments of First Nations Australians may not be an accurate guide to their differing views about sovereignty, but the debate about how to vote has at least focused attention on larger questions that Indigenous representatives will probably need to debate if a Voice is established.
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 ...
All quiet about the Western Front • Inside Story
May 17, 2021 · Essays & reportage The phoenix Helen Ennis 22 November 2024 Photographer Max Dupain returned from the war determined to reinvent himself and his work Essays & reportage Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice? Hamish McDonald 22 November 2024 A judicial inquiry has been told of withheld evidence that would have fundamentally challenged the case against the Croatian Six International One ...
migration • Topic • Inside Story
Nov 20, 2024 · Books & arts Stolen moments Linda Jaivin 21 November 2023 Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy Books & arts Can I get a passport with that? Max Holleran 25 October 2023 Cash-strapped microstates are selling citizenship that opens doors for the wealthy non-Western elite Books & arts Time’s quiet pulse Penny Russell 29 ...
The Great Divide • Inside Story
Our European ancestors locked us in a madhouse. To explain why their society was technologically more complex than others, they came up with what I call the Great Divide — the separation of the world’s peoples into farmers or hunter-gatherers.