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6 days ago · 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 International Beijing’s brake Saul Eslake 24 October 2024 All signs suggest that China is in the grip of a long, self-induced economic slowdown National affairs Jason Clare’s dead parrot Dean ...
Indigenous policy’s inflection point • Inside Story
Oct 16, 2023 · The defeat of the Voice referendum represents both a political tragedy and an inflection point for Indigenous policy in Australia. It consigns to history the hope for a single institution reflecting the diverse aspirations of Indigenous citizens and communities, and it crystallises changes in the political and social dynamics of Australian society, particularly within Indigenous Australia.
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Inside Story is an independent, non-profit magazine featuring analysis, commentary and reporting by leading writers and researchers from Australia and beyond. Editor: Peter Browne Contributing editor: Peter Mares Publisher: Mark Baker Inside Story Publishing Pty Ltd, PO Box 1170, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia • ABN 40 617 195 230 We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners ...
A steady path to sovereignty? • Inside Story
Oct 6, 2023 · As 2023 began, Dreyfus repeated his view that putting the Voice in the Constitution would have no impact on sovereignty. Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy gave a similar assurance on the ABC’s Q&A in late January. But the government seemed reluctant to define what Indigenous sovereign rights entailed.
Opening doors in Central Australia • Inside Story
5 days ago · 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.
China • Topic • Inside Story
Oct 1, 2024 · Beyond Chinese Taipei Antonia Finnane 6 August 2024 A Taiwan-centred history of the island reveals a nation-in-the-making Think-tanked Hamish McDonald 22 April 2024 As a China-watching think tank winds up after Morrison-era cuts, a respected analyst reviews government funding for security-related research and education. Life and death in China ...
migration • Topic • Inside Story
Oct 1, 2024 · Heritage hunting Antonia Finnane 9 February 2024 A great number of migrants left China’s Zhongshan county for Australia — but the traffic wasn’t always one way. Red flags Ebony Nilsson 8 February 2024 Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services.
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.
Imperial reckoning • Inside Story
Oct 7, 2024 · 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 ...
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 ...