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‘Shame, disgust, horror’: Kate Grenville faces her family history of stolen land in Australia – and asks us to feel it with her

How do Australians feel about knowing the territory we inhabit was violently stolen from First Nations people? In Unsettled, Kate Grenville explores this through her own feelings. “I’ve been circling this book for years,” she writes.

The Conversation

Alfred Deakin’s great-grandson apologises for second Australian PM’s role in removal of Aboriginal children

Yoorrook Justice Commission hears from descendants of colonists about their horror regarding families’ impact on Indigenous Victorians

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Australia must confront bloody colonial past

Australians have a duty to investigate the nation's colonial history in order to move forward, a landowner on the site of the Warrigal Creek massacre says.

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Rupert Murdoch: how a 22-year-old 'zealous Laborite' turned into a tabloid tsar

In September 1953, Rupert Murdoch arrived in sleepy Adelaide to take up his inheritance of News Limited. He was only 22 and had little experience of working at a newspaper, let alone running one, but his family had inherited a majority stake in the company following the death of Rupert’s…

The Conversation

The Liberals are the fifth iteration of our main centre-right party. Could The Voice hasten a sixth?

Peter Dutton’s defensive posture of just appealing to "the base’" and trying to hold the Liberals together may prove the losing gambit.

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The Liberals are the fifth iteration of Australia's main centre-right party. Could the Voice campaign hasten a sixth?

Party stability on the progressive side of politics, and repeated party reconfiguration on the conservative side of politics, is a marked contrast in the history of Australia’s two-party political system.

The Conversation

The 'forgettables': 5 Australian prime ministers you may not know much about

The idea of a “forgotten prime minister” may seem laughable. For Australian historians, it is the governed rather than the governors who need rescuing “from the enormous condescension of posterity” as the English historian E. P. Thompson famously put it.

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Democracies are fragile. Australians must act urgently to safeguard ours

The solicitor-general’s recent finding that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s furtive accrual of ministerial portfolios “fundamentally undermined” the principles of responsible government has drawn attention to the precarity of democracy. In seeking to safeguard our democracy, we must consider the extent to which Australians’ long-standing apathy about our democratic system…

The Conversation

History tells us women can turn elections: the Liberals should have listened

Some wondered that the fury of March4Justice rapidly dissipated. But the women of Australia were following a feminist adage: don’t get angry, get organised

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