By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan is one of the few remaining working journalists who witnesses The Dismissal first hand. She shares her memories of that tumultuous day.
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By Thomas H. Ford, Senior Lecturer in English, La Trobe University
“Girly, there’s something rotten in your keep cup,” Evelyn Araluen writes in Girl Work!, a poem in her new collection, The Rot.
We are trailing after a young female Hamlet figure, a contemporary up-and-coming princess or “girlboss” off to work in some creative-industries office job, who is studiously ignoring the spectres summoning her to political action.
The poem reminds us that Mao Zedong once said “imperialism is ferocious”. But “who has leisure time for revolution these days?” Who even “has time to…
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By Bruce Mountain, Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
Everyone loves a free lunch. But the Australia’s government’s sudden announcement of hours of free power will make rooftop solar much less attractive.
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By Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University
The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery come from? And why now?
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By Tom Coupe, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Canterbury
Stories about automation eliminating jobs and reducing wages were once common. But a comprehensive analysis of its actual impact paints a less ominous picture.
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By Jacob L. Bongers, Tom Austen Brown Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney
Charles Stanish, Exec. Director, Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment; Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
An ancient band of thousands of precisely aligned small pits stretching 1.5 kilometres across the Pisco Valley in Peru has baffled experts for almost a century.
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By Gozde Aydin, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University
Yong Lin Wang, Neurologist and Phd Candidate, Monash University
Seles’ first symptoms appeared suddenly around three years ago. She began having double vision and weakness in her arms and legs.
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By Jen Webb, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
Literary journalists Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein take us inside their conversations on the mushroom trial, writing and notorious women.
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By Alexis Bergantz, Lecturer, RMIT University
After The Dismissal, Gough Whitlam called John Kerr’s wife, gifted linguist Anne Kerr, ‘the Lady Macbeth of Yarralumla’. Who was she – and what was her influence?
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By Pedro Fidelman, Associate professor in environmental policy and governance, The University of Queensland
Brazil’s Amazon COP30 climate summit will test if a resource-based nation can lead on climate action. It’s a dilemma Australia also faces.
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