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WEB6 days ago · Chill winds Graeme Dobell 19 September 2024 The great geopolitical struggle of our time, cold war 2.0, is cyber war and proxy war and tech war, economic face-off and nuclear brinkmanship Where Cook saw a camel Marian Quartly 16 September 2024 Two journeys up the east coast of Australia Fitzroy’s young …
On Possession Island • Inside Story
WEBAug 4, 2020 · 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 of marking what he reckoned he had done there: Having satisfied myself of the great probability of a passage, thro’ which I intend ...
Telling truths - Inside Story
WEBSep 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.”.
A steady path to sovereignty? • Inside Story
WEBOct 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.
Reading Bruce Pascoe • Inside Story
WEBNov 26, 2019 · When Dark Emu was published in 2014, Bruce became a household name and many readers encountered him for the first time. One of the pleasures of Salt is that it weaves his earlier fiction writing together with his now-celebrated nonfiction. We meet — or rediscover — the pre– Dark Emu Pascoe, and we’re reminded that this powerful voice ...
migration • Topic • Inside Story
WEBAug 28, 2024 · migration. Peter Dutton’s road to nowhere Peter Brent 28 August 2024 The opposition leader has an electorally ineffective obsession. Poor at politics, strong on policy Peter Mares 2 August 2024 Andrew Giles’s record as immigration minister stands up remarkably well Distant crimes, nearby perpetrators Hamish McDonald 10 May 2024 Under ...
Digging deeper into a 65,000 year story • Inside Story
WEBIt is a complex, contoured and ongoing history of human endurance and achievement in the face of great social, environmental and climatic change. And last week, in a landmark Nature paper, it was pushed back to 65,000 years. Dating the earliest human occupation at 65,000 years ago is a dramatic step, and it throws up questions that are not ...
Why does Truth come third? • Inside Story
WEBJun 8, 2021 · Davis, one of the key referendum councillors and the first to read out the Statement at Uluru on 26 May 2017, suggested that they ask us what it means for the Uluru Statement to have placed Truth third in its sequence for reform, Voice, Treaty, Truth. Davis’s question alludes to the longstanding connection …
Reviewing Indigenous history in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia
WEBDec 4, 2009 · Her vision of Australian history was about the perennial struggle between landowners and workers, between capital and labour. In response to Greer’s attack, Langton argued that the film was “a romance, not a documentary.”. In Australia Langton saw something of “Luhrmann’s own artistic struggle with the prosaic facts of history,” and ...
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