insidestory.org.auadded August 2026
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For the modern reader, the suggestion that a special sympathy exists between Catholic religious teaching and Labor’s values and outlook might seem implausible, observes Irish Studies professor Jeff...
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With just four weeks to go until the US midterm elections a “blue wave” — or what Australians would call a Democratic landslide — seems likely.
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In Magnum Streetwise, Stephen McLaren distils and celebrates what many would regard as the most significant movement in postwar documentary photography.
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Benji Wilson’s Rate this Book is a lively read, and an important one, the punch coming in its subtitle: How star ratings took over the world.
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“Victoria November 2026: an election of dread” When Victorians head to the polls on the last Saturday of next month, all the indications are that they will usher in that relatively rare thing — a...
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In the early 1960s, contentious talk about the injustices of the British class system was part of the stock-in-trade of Manchester pubs.
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Waging a “permanent contest” with China in the South Pacific, Australia is building new alliances and a new security system.
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Do political speeches matter anymore? Politicians love to give them, and journalists to report them.
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There are lots of reasons to believe Democrats are about to crush the midterm elections. Donald Trump’s average job approval is below 40 per cent, about five points lower than it was in the 2018...
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For half a century, Eric Hobsbawm was a giant among historians. From his 1959 work on Primitive Rebels, which investigated “social bandits” (a term he coined) in pre-industrial societies, and his...
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When police arrested him in February 1917, Lesbia Harford’s former lover Guido Baracchi was giving an anti-conscription speech on Melbourne’s Yarra Bank.
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In 1925 government statistician Charles Wickens — himself the son of migrant parents — likened Australia’s approach to immigration to a boa constrictor and its food.
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Earle Christmas Page, surgeon and rural-conservative politician, and Paul Hasluck, historian and Liberal politician, are the latest of twenty-seventh subjects in publisher Connor Court’s extensive...
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Three hours into last Friday’s hearing of the parliamentary inquiry examining artificial intelligence, Nationals senator Ross Cadell asked a straightforward question about copyright.
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A few days ago I spent some an hour on the phone with a friend in Gaza. Before the war, our conversations were a kind of luxury.
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The Federal Republic of Germany, it seems, has entered uncharted territory. Only once before has its dominant postwar political force, the Christian Democratic Union, won less than 10 per cent of...
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In the popular imagination George Sand and Frederick Chopin form a legendary pair, key exemplars of the High Romanticism of their age.
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The sociology of education got off to a flying start in the 1950s and 1960s: against the prevailing assumption that kids got on well or badly at school according to their “ability,” sociology...
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In 2012 a Canadian man named Dennis Meads walked into an Alberta courtroom carrying a stack of papers he believed would change his life. Change was needed.
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It wasn’t easy to get close to Stephen Sondheim. The composer Mary Rodgers said, “If you walk into a room he’ll ignore you. And if you ignore him, then he’ll come over and say hello.
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