This Month
Why the Qantas chairman is building a maritime museum under his house
John Mullen has learnt a lot from the likes of Matthew Flinders, the first man to circumnavigate Australia, and 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
April 2024
Captain Cook’s first Australian souvenir returned to Indigenous owners
Cambridge University has surrendered a set of spears taken the momentous day when Sydney’s Indigenous people first set eyes on their eventual colonisers.
April 2023
There is no political profit for Dutton in opposing the Voice
The Liberal leader’s aim seems to be to keep his parliamentary party together – even at the risk of the wider party’s appeal.
February 2022
Discovery of Captain Cook’s Endeavour ‘premature’
The lead US investigator in the search for the ship has labelled an announcement by the Australian National Maritime Museum a ‘breach of contract’.
June 2021
Is it freedom of speech or just insulting your colleagues?
The High Court on Wednesday heard arguments as to how far intellectual freedom can be taken in the final round of Peter Ridd’s sacking from James Cook University.
July 2020
'They'll spend it': Baird pushes for more youth JobKeeper
Some sectors are 'rorting JobKeeper like barristers', says former politician Bruce Baird. 'But it must continue for the tourism sector.'
June 2020
Who needs an ABC channel for comedy with real life on hand?
The line between real news stories and the ABC's nightly offering of old comedies was just too thin.
AFR amends, defends, apologises for criticised cartoon
The Australian Financial Review’s David Rowe has adjusted a cartoon after complaints that it depicted the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in an anti-Semitic trope.
April 2020
Exhibition seeks different perspectives on James Cook’s exploits
The event is one of many being organised to mark the 250th anniversary of Cook's explorations of New Zealand and Australia.
January 2020
Conservative shift on colonial legacy under way: Mundine
Businessman and former political candidate Warren Mundine says a reassessment is taking place ahead of the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Captain Cook this year.
Australia's colonisers wanted better for this land
Utopian ideals for the settlement of Australia gave way to a betrayal of the Indigenous people that is only now being recognised.
Cook's scientific spirit should guide climate response
Modern Australia was born out of ideas about inquiry and improvement. That should be the source of solutions, from Indigenous rights to climate change.
Virtual Cook to face an actually changed Australia
When Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay he faced the spears of local warriors - 250 years later the unease at his arrival has come full circle.
Explorer or invader: Navigating Captain Cook's legacy
Leading contemporary artists will examine the place of the man credited with paving the way for Australia's colonisation at an upcoming exhibition.
Colonial governments failed Indigenous, says key conservative
Former Liberal Party Victoria president and Howard-era minister David Kemp says the Australian colony's treatment of Aborigines betrayed the ideals of the enlightenment.