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Paul Daley

Paul writes about Indigenous history, Australian culture and national identity for Guardian Australia. He has won a number of journalism prizes including two Walkley awards, the Paul Lyneham award for political journalism and two Kennedy awards. He is a novelist and playwright whose books have been shortlisted in major literary prizes and is the author of the political novel Challenge

August 2024

  • Books of the month composite Australia.

    Bookmark this
    New Andy Griffiths, Korean slow food and a frontier war epic: the best Australian books out in August

  • JD Vance and Donald Trump

    Trump and Vance’s misogyny and cynical identity politics mean Australians can’t ‘just chill’ about the US election

    Paul Daley

July 2024

  • Politics in an Oyster House (1848). Painting by Richard Caton Woodville. ‘When it came to clarifications on character I usually consulted a particular chat group that I’m a member of.’

    Sometimes, when describing someone’s character, only an acronym will do

    Paul Daley
  • In London, a street sweeper goes about his work near the Bank of England

    The kindness of strangers isn’t always obvious but it can be delightfully disarming

    Paul Daley

June 2024

  • Indigeneous rock art in the Northern Territory

    One exclusive Australian institution is facing up to its deeply racist past while another backs away from it

    Paul Daley
  • Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta

    ‘I’m ready for everything and I don’t care’: the man refusing to turn up at an Australian ‘colonial’ court

May 2024

  • Ormond College at the University of Melbourne

    Biographers, resharpen your pencils! The University of Melbourne’s shameful history of racism awaits

    Paul Daley
    Good history is not static. It is intrinsically up for challenge. And this long-overdue truth-telling opens up ripe ground for a reckoning
  • Burning candle on stack of books near window indoors, while tea is poured

    The tiny rituals that bring comfort and joy in times of fear and uncertainty

    Paul Daley
    The morning’s tea needs to be brewed in the yellow pot, the sheepdog must be scratched repeatedly
  • ‘Watching a child suffer the pain that comes from being unable to meet one of society’s basic expectations can be intolerable.’

    So-called ‘school refusal’ must be tackled with compassion, not hard-hearted discipline

    Paul Daley
    Only families who have had to deal with a child unable to attend school can understand the anguish it causes everyone involved

April 2024

  • A planned radical restructure of the South Australian Museum has seriously undermined relations between the institution and Indigenous staff and stakeholders.

    ‘A deeply colonial backward step’: why are donors, staff and politicians up in arms about the South Australian Museum?

    The South Australian Government has just intervened to pause a restructure of the state’s biggest museum. Why?
  • A man looks at a memorial wall in memory of ANZACs soldiers (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) who died during and after the Gallipoli campaign in the World War I at the Lone Pine in Gallipoli peninsula, Canakkale, Turkey, Sunday, April 23, 2023. The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 by Allied forces aimed to take control of the peninsula to weaken the Ottoman Empire. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

    On Anzac Day you’ll hear stories of courage and mateship. It’s a way to rationalise war

    Paul Daley
    Our leaders weave grand, often poetic, narratives around death on the battlefield – and then tragically we let it happen again

    • A life without my dogs seems imponderable. Yet we do keep going after losing the animals we adore

      Paul Daley

    • A note from my mum stirs my memory of her more than a photograph ever could

      Paul Daley

    • Bookmark this
      ‘Candid’, ‘remarkable’, ‘beguiling’: the best Australian books out in April

March 2024

  • Rosie Batty smiling

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    Rosie Batty: ‘Luke is frozen in my memory as an 11-year-old, but he’d be a handsome young man’

  • Jim Bowler

    Can the story of Mungo Man be the ‘healing glue’ of the nation 50 years on from the monumental discovery?

February 2024

  • Trump and Australian PM

    A reelected Trump is Albanese’s elephant in the room, and a potential disaster for Australia

    Paul Daley
  • Ocean, grey sky

    My memory of life and the markers of its passing are refracted through the sea

    Paul Daley

January 2024

  • Indigenous flag in front of Parliament House in Canberra

    Australia Day is on the nose – it’s becoming harder to defend celebrating the date of an apocalypse

    Paul Daley
    No matter how indignantly the woke-as-a-pejorative crowd screech on their op-ed pages and airwaves, the cultural tide on 26 January is ebbing fast

December 2023

  • A twisted wreck of a car on a footpath with police taking photographs

    The ‘road toll’ is a benign term that sanitises the senseless waste of human life in Australia

    Paul Daley
    Society is inured to the misery of this macabre tally. We must urgently challenge the hegemony of this blithely adopted description
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