Michael Adams new book, Hanging Ned Kelly: Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia, exposes how executioners were forced to do the colonial ruling classes' dirty work. Alex Salmon reviews.
Colonisation and colonialism
The current frenzy around the聽Alice Springs crime wave聽risks risks repeating the same moral聽panics and deployment of聽top-down policies which disempower First Nations people, write聽Thalia Anthony听补苍诲听Vanessa Napaltjari Davis.
A ceremony marking the 181st anniversary of the execution of freedom fighters was held at the Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner monument on the corner of Victoria and Franklin Streets. Darren Saffin reports.
Acclaimed comics journalist Joe Sacco travelled to the Arctic regions of north-west Canada to learn about the Dene people and their struggles for his latest book, Paying the Land. Andrew Chuter reviews.
Make no mistake,聽DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara聽woman Senator Lidia Thorpe is under attack because of her militancy, argues聽Sue Bolton.
The expansion of capitalism, through globalisation and imperialism, has caused social exclusion, poverty and environmental degradation in Bangladesh, writes聽Sabrina Syed.
Aleks Wansbrough argues that the queen's passing shows how modern capitalism has a聽tendency to uproot and decontextualise forms of cultural kinship and care, relativising everything as a commodity.
The Australian republican movement鈥檚 great mistake was to banish from discussion any reason beyond symbolism to be a republic. Aleks Wansbrough聽 argues it effectively treated聽the royals as beyond reproach.
Human rights activist Stephen Langford has finally been聽acquitted of 鈥渕alicious damage鈥 for pasting of the words of聽Governor Lachlan Macquarie on his聽statue聽in Hyde Park. Jim McIlroy reports.
A tidal wave of outrage followed the Solomon Islands and China signing a security deal. Missing in the fury is a recognition that the Solomon Islands is聽a sovereign state, argues聽William Briggs.
Is Australia a 鈥渓apdog鈥 for the United States or is it also an imperialist power 鈥 albeit smaller 鈥 looking to grow its own interests? Felix Dance looks at the evidence.
The belief by liberal feminists in the ostensibly feminist nature of the imperialist interventionist project headed by the United States and its European allies is false, writes Yanis Iqbal.
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