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How should our nation reckon with its colonial history and its lasting impact on contemporary society? By Barry Gittins

They're big on welcomes to country and smoking out malevolent spirits at the Academy of Science, where an uncompromising adherence to political correctness puts the wokest of very woke to shame. I wonder, though, if that enthusiasm for 'truth-telling' extends to raking over the racist views of its founder, the physicist and later Governor of South Australia Sir Mark Oliphant?

Donald Horne’s genius was his ability to capture on the page a personal intellectual journey that reflected one the nation was also taking.

Geoffrey Dutton made a significant mark on the arts and literary scene in SA and beyond. Now, a new film sheds light on the many other loves of the writer who courted controversy in his later life after he left both his wife of 40 years and Adelaide.

Seventy years ago, as the eyes of the world were on a young Elizabeth II, inside Westminister Abbey an Australian was a nervous wreck.