The Dixson family were great Australian philanthropists, but their wealth was built on slave labour
The legacy of the Dixson family reveals a complicated history of interconnected global capital and racialised exploitation.
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Grand design: why the AFL structure is unique – and has enabled competitive balance
The AFL grand final is a celebration of a unique game, Australian made and owned, with a goal of competitive balance.
60 years and 14 Doctors: how Doctor Who has changed with the times – and Ncuti Gatwa’s casting is the natural next step
Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa has been cast as the 14th Doctor – a move which shows that Doctor Who is continually adapting in its 60th year.
Birth of a nation: how Australia empowering women taught the world a lesson
Australia’s inimitability with regard to women’s political equality has barely entered conventional studies of political history.
What is rumbling Australia’s economy ahead of MYEFO
A lot has changed in the global economy since the Federal Budget 2016.
How Australia’s biggest wine‑growing region came to pioneer alcohol control
South Australia’s Riverland adopted a Swedish system to control the dissemination of alcohol, even as it began the journey to becoming Australia’s biggest wine producer.
OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.
As the games begin, what does the Commonwealth mean and what purpose does it serve?
The British Empire has long since folded. But the Commonwealth of Nations remains a global collective of like-minded countries.
Arguments against party reform: heeding lessons from 1832
In his recent Quarterly Essay, Mark Latham compared Labor parliamentary representation to the rotten boroughs of the 18th century. Though union membership has fallen away, suggested Latham, union officials…
Poetry has linked war and disease for centuries
From cholera outbreaks to public health actions, war metaphors have long been used to describe diseases, to show what we fear and to explain our world to ourselves.
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