Politics
Late Fascism: Race, capitalism and the politics of crisis by Alberto Toscano
Well-informed debate on national security, never more important than now, depends on reliable accounts of historical episodes, ones not distorted by latter-day political or diplomatic sensitivities. For more than a century, Australians have benefited from a tradition of official histories of the nation’s involvement in conflicts and peacekeeping operations, for which governments of all persuasions have given independent historians access to all relevant official records, publishing their works without political or diplomatic censorship.
... (read more)The Abuse of Power: Confronting injustice in public life by Theresa May
Imperial Island: A history of empire in modern Britain by Charlotte Lydia Riley
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a new world, 1848–1849 by Christopher Clark
Why did Australia vote against the Voice referendum?
... (read more)The defeat of the proposal in the recent Aboriginal constitutional referendum was unsurprising given the forces at work, which I discussed in ‘A Referendum in Trouble’ (ABR, July 2023). Most importantly, it lacked the support of the Liberal and National parties once their leaders decided to oppose it, largely for partisan purposes.
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