Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

FOUND: Mary gilmore - What They Never Told You

How failed socialist utopia ties Australia to Paraguay

World Cup opponents Australia and Paraguay have a unique connection through a bid to create a socialist utopia in the South American country, 130 years ago.

AAP

Australia’s ‘inconvenient’ women writers blazed a trail through the 20th century

In Inconvenient Women, Jacqueline Kent shines a spotlight on some of Australia’s most radical and influential writers.

The Conversation

The great Australian election campaign quiz – week five

We made it! YOU made it. But did you follow the hate media closely enough all the way to the end?

The Guardian - AU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Hidden women of history: disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was 'the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age' but is almost unheard of here

In the late 1920s, poet Mary Gilmore – the woman on the A$10 note – declared she’d encountered only two instances of “genius” during her four decades in Australian literature. The first was a man who remains a household name: Henry Lawson, bush poet, author of iconic stories like The…

The Conversation

'Flash Johnny' an outlaw till the end

On the outskirts of Binalong is the crude bush grave of bushranger John Gilbert, marked with a dilapidated wooden cross and rudimentary bush rock headstone.

The Canberra Times

Failed dreams of building 'New Australia' utopia in Paraguay jungle in 19th century

Disenchanted with Australia in the 1890s, 500 people travelled to Paraguay in search of a better life, inspired by a radical socialist. But their plans for a tropical utopia, with strict rules about booze and sex, were "bound to fail".

ABC News

Friday essay: How leftist, feminist poet Dame Mary Gilmore became 'Aunt Mary' in the PM's political narrative

Dame Mary Gilmore died at 97 in late 1962, two and a half years before the birth of her great-great nephew, Scott John Morrison.

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.