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Back to SearchLNL Summer: Societies collapse. Will ours?
We're living in unusual times, with political history being made every week and the seemingly imminent collapse of a certain global super power on the horizon. "Once you pull on the thread of collaps…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
LNL Summer: The Australian workers the union movement left behind
A new history of the union movement in Australia says marginalised groups like migrants, women, Indigenous Australians and LGBTQIA+ people were often left to run their own grassroots campaigns, and w…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
LNL Summer: Radio propaganda wars in the Middle East
Before the 1967 war, radio ruled the Middle East—TV was a rare luxury. For the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Israel, the airwaves buzzed with news, and more often than not, propagan…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
LNL Summer: Omar El Akkad reckons with the West
'One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.' That tweet, by …
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LNL Summer: how 19th Century Americans thought about hair
The thickness, colour and texture of facial and head hair showed character traits about men and women, it was believed in 19th century America. The assessments were imbued with judgements about race …
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
LNL Summer: Blue Poles, when a painting shocked Australia
In 1973, the Australian government acquired the painting Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock for $1.3 million AUD. It created huge division in Australia, and arguably contributed to the downfall of the Whi…
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Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel farewell 2025
David Marr is joined by Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel to review the monumental year of 2025 - including its weirdest moments - and ask where Australia finds itself as another year…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Bush medicine: how Indigenous practice has survived millennia
A new exhibition at the University of Melbourne's Medical History Museum, Cultural Medicine: The Art of Indigenous Healing celebrates 65,000 years of First Nations medical knowledge and practice from…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Geoffrey Robertson on the world's failures to prosecute war crimes
Renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson KC says the killing of two people who survived a US strike on a speed boat off the coast of Venezuela on 2nd September 2025, constitutes a war crime, a…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Ian Dunt's UK: Budget woes and a look back at 2025
This year in British politics was defined by constant upheaval: leaders under pressure, parties fractured over strategy, major policies overturned or delayed, and a public increasingly frustrated by …
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago