How one American film caused a political battle about the Nazis

How one American film caused a political battle about the Nazis

The 1940 film The Mortal Storm was the only film at the time to tackle the treatment of the Jews in Nazi Germany.

  • byTom Ryan

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Public-private school divide against national spirit

Public-private school divide against national spirit

If our politicians were required to send their offspring to state schools,there would be a dramatic change in funding.

Virginia Trioli:‘I had to go through a lot of life to be confident to write about me’

Virginia Trioli:‘I had to go through a lot of life to be confident to write about me’

When the award-winning journalist set out to write her memoir there was a lot on the table,but she chose to focus on food over feminism.

  • byJane Rocca
Pigeon sleepovers,margarine models and human remains:The true history of the Shrine

Pigeon sleepovers,margarine models and human remains:The true history of the Shrine

A new graphic narrative tells little-known yarns about the Shrine of Remembrance.

  • byCarolyn Webb
The family secrets Richard learned from his mum’s WWII letters

The family secrets Richard learned from his mum’s WWII letters

Winifred Smith’s letters,now on display at the State Library of NSW,are a rare insight into women’s experience of the war effort.

  • byJulie Power
Twin geeks hit the highway
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Twin geeks hit the highway

And a distress signal goes postal.

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Not voting is the real blight on democracy

Not voting is the real blight on democracy

The compulsion to vote has served us well for more than a century and is the best way for the voices of all the people – even mute ones – to be heard one way or another. What could be more democratic than that?

Rats in the RAF
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Column 8

Rats in the RAF

An altogether different cycling tour.

‘I don’t want to be a martyr’:Last Rat of Tobruk dies,aged 102
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‘I don’t want to be a martyr’:Last Rat of Tobruk dies,aged 102

Former ambulance driver Tom Pritchard was one of 14,000 Australian soldiers who – against all odds – held back the might of the German Army in North Africa during World War II.

  • byPeter FitzSimons
‘I am Giorgia’:Italy’s far-right leader and the confounding world of Italian politics

‘I am Giorgia’:Italy’s far-right leader and the confounding world of Italian politics

Italy’s first female PM is also the first to govern from the far right in decades. Has Giorgia Meloni’s agenda changed in power? Where did her politics come from? And why has Italy had 68 governments since World War II?

  • byAngus Holland
These are the cartoons that kept Australians laughing for a century

These are the cartoons that kept Australians laughing for a century

A new show at the State Library of NSW celebrates a century of Australian cartooning.

  • byHelen Pitt