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Stan Grant is the Indigenous affairs editor for Guardian Australia. He is the winner of the 2015 Walkley award for coverage of Indigenous affairs. Grant was previously the international editor at Sky News and has held posts in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Beijing for CNN International. He hosts The Point on NITV. His recent memoir is Talking to My Country.

What's Right? The future of conservatism in Australia

Uncivil Wars How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy

The Worried Well The depression epidemic and the medicalisation of our sorrows

John Birmingham

Appeasing Jakarta Australia's complicity in the East Timor tragedy

A Time for War Australia as a military power

Top Blokes The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power

On Peter Dutton and the Forgotten People

Fair Share Country and city in Australia

Exit Right The unravelling of John Howard

Relaxed & Comfortable The Liberal Party's Australia

The Coal Curse Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future

Firing Line Australia's Path to War

Beyond Belief What future for Labor?

Andrew Charlton

Dragon's Tail The lucky country after the China boom

Man-Made World Choosing between progress and planet

Inga Clendinnen

The History Question Who owns the past?

Sending Them Home Refugees and the new politics of indifference

Stop at Nothing The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull

Men at Work Australia’s Parenthood Trap

No Fixed Address Nomads and the fate of the planet

Voice of Reason On Recognition and Renewal

Richard Denniss

Dead Right How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next

Getting to Zero Australia’s Energy Transition

After the Future Australia's new extinction crisis

Beautiful Lies Population and environment in Australia

Now or Never A sustainable future for Australia?

Breach of Trust Truth, morality and politics

On climate peril and paralysis

Anna Goldsworthy

Unfinished Business Sex, freedom and misogyny

The Australian Dream Blood, History and Becoming

Whitefella Jump Up The shortest way to nationhood

The Wires That Bind Electrification and Community Renewal

Bad Company The cult of the CEO

What’s Left? The death of social democracy

Bipolar Nation How to win the 2007 election

Red Flag Waking Up to China’s Challenge

The Reckoning How #MeToo is Changing Australia

'Kangaroo Court' Family law in Australia

Karen Hitchcock

Dear Life On caring for the elderly

Rebecca Huntley

Australia Fair Listening to the Nation

Found in Translation In praise of a plural world

American Revolution The fall of Wall Street and the rise of Barack Obama

The Prosperity Gospel How Scott Morrison won and Bill Shorten lost

David Kilcullen

Blood Year Terror and the Islamic State

The Great Divide Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It

Sarah Krasnostein

Not Waving, Drowning Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia

Us & Them On the importance of animals

The Long Goodbye Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock

Not Dead Yet Labor's post-Left future

Moral Panic 101 Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal

Lifeboat Disability, Humanity and the NDIS

Groundswell The rise of the Greens

Voting for Jesus Christianity and politics in Australia

Reaction Time Climate change and the nuclear option

Mungo MacCallum

Girt By Sea Australia, the refugees and the politics of fear

Australian Story Kevin Rudd and the lucky country

The Happy Life The search for contentment in the modern world

Made in England Australia's British inheritance

Love and Money The family and the free market

In Denial The stolen generations and the Right

Bad News Murdoch's Australian and the shaping of the nation

Sending Them Home Refugees and the new politics of indifference

The Prince Faith, abuse and George Pell

Political Animal The making of Tony Abbott

Power Trip The political journey of Kevin Rudd

His Master's Voice The corruption of public debate under Howard

Faction Man Bill Shorten's Path to Power

The White Queen One Nation and the Politics of Race

Paradise Betrayed West Papua's struggle for independence

Mission Impossible The sheikhs, the U.S. and the future of Iraq

Moment of Truth History and Australia’s Future

George Megalogenis

Trivial Pursuit Leadership and the end of the reform era

Balancing Act Australia Between Recession and Renewal

Exit Strategy Politics After the Pandemic

Katharine Murphy

The End of Certainty Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics

Lone Wolf Albanese and the New Politics

Quarry Vision Coal, climate change and the end of the resource boom

Radical Hope Education and equality for Australia

A Rightful Place Race, recognition and a more complete commonwealth

The Opportunist John Howard and the triumph of reaction

Clivosaurus The politics of Clive Palmer

Margaret Simons

Latham's World The new politics of the outsiders

Cry Me a River The Tragedy of the Murray–Darling Basin

Net Loss The Inner Life in the Digital Age

Uncivil Wars How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy

Great Expectations Government, entitlement and an angry nation

Political Amnesia How We Forgot How To Govern

Follow the Leader Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman

The High Road What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand

That Sinking Feeling Asylum seekers and the search for the Indonesian solution

Last Drinks The impact of the Northern Territory intervention

Rabbit Syndrome Australia and America

Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump

Power Shift Australia's future between Washington and Beijing

Without America Australia in the New Asia

Sleepwalk to War Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America