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WEB4 days ago · Inside Story | Current affairs & culture from Australia and beyond. Books & arts A chasm of need Alecia Simmonds 4 October 2024 A new account of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial focuses on the victims of an unfathomed perpetrator. International Gathering storm Tony Walker 3 October 2024 As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the ...
On Possession Island • Inside Story
WEBAug 4, 2020 · Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, Captain James Cook famously staked a claim to much of this country. 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 …
Invisible women - Inside Story
WEBApr 8, 2018 · In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in an English vicarage married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Jane Austen novel, that would be the end of the story, but for the woman who would play an integral part in establishing Australia’s wool industry, it was just the beginning. Elizabeth Macarthur landed at …
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 ...
After the battle • Inside Story
WEBNov 28, 2020 · The sheer human drama overwhelms the senses. It catches at the throat like the crisp, sharp air of Oruzgan itself, as if you’ve just jumped down from the helicopter onto the stony ground. The adrenaline pumps as you imagine the sudden chaos and excitement, the sheer power and the feeling of omnipotence carried by the crack Special Forces ...
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WEBInside 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 ...
migration • Topic • Inside Story
WEBOct 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.
Compulsory viewing - Inside Story
WEBFeb 27, 2009 · First Australians: The Untold Story of Australia. Directed by Rachel Perkins and Beck Cole | SBS DVD | $39.95. THERE IS A STORY in Bruce Pascoe’s book, Convincing Ground, about a spirit man from a tribe that had been living in the Australian Alps for far longer than any other tribe could remember. During the …
A certain grandeur • Inside Story
WEBJul 29, 2019 · This is a “high” style of speechwriting — formal, balanced, steady, cumulative, moral. Let’s plagiarise Freudenberg’s title of his history of Whitlam’s leadership and say it has “a certain grandeur.”. Its restraint grants great power to those moments when emotions are expressed: thus the impact when we are invited to experience ...
Whatever happened to Australian literature? • Inside Story
WEBThe system has undoubtedly distorted research in Australian literature — indeed in the humanities as a whole, and possibly beyond — by forcing academics to seek international perspectives on their work and to find projects that will keep many hands busy and consequently consume large amounts of grant money. Australian literature academics ...