Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, reflects on race, multiculturalism and how the law has attempted to deal with discrimination in his new book I'm Not Racist But ... 40 years of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Forget the word 'piracy'Illicit downloading is theft and we must back new laws to stop it.
Beyond Ned Kelly: Sidney Nolan’s life and artNancy Underhill had plenty of good reasons to take on the monumental task of writing a new biography of Sidney Nolan. In this extract from her introduction to Sidney Nolan: A life, she explains her continued fascination with the man and his work.
Black and proud20 years after Indigenous AFL footballer Nicky Winmar stood up against racial abuse and made history, Adam Goodes experienced a grim redux.
CopyfightHave we forgotten how to pay for content? Phillipa McGuinness considers the future of creativity in the internet age.
Where to next for radicalism?Newcastle in New South Wales is a city that has seen its fair share of radical action. But what does it mean to be 'radical' today? And why has Newcastle been the site for so much grassroots radicalism over the decades?
The incredible shrinking wordsKel Richards looks at the distinctly Aussie habit of abbreviation.
The first aged care assessmentMichele Gierck chronicles a mother's and a daughter's journey through memory loss and the medical maze.
Time to fix Australia's constitutionGeorge Williams argues the case for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians.
Goodbye, GunnsBack in the early 2000s, the controversial forestry giant Gunns Ltd decided to build a pulp mill in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. The plan met with bitter, determined and very public opposition in a David-versus-Goliath battle. Then, in 2012, Gunns Ltd collapsed in spectacular fashion. Quentin Beresford’s The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd takes a broad view of what happened to Gunns, from the boardroom to the national political stage.
Dreaming of marvellous hallsIf town halls in Australia are the capillaries of our democratic vitality, then Canberra’s Albert Hall is the heart. Lenore Coltheart’s history Albert Hall: The heart of Canberra tracks its pulse from the 1920s to today.
For the love of horsesIs the horseracing industry full of money-hungry swindlers out to make a buck, or just people who love horses, plain and simple? In the wake of the 2014 Melbourne Cup controversy, Nicolas Brasch – author of Horses in Australia: An illustrated history – makes a case for the faithful.