Paul Daley
The Guardian
Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Too often Australians weaponise the word ‘mate’ to mean the opposite of friendship
Seeing a road-rage incident and reading Wake in Fright got me thinking how readily this word is used as a testosterone-charged pejorative → Read More
Howard and Abbott seek the meaning of life. What if our true purpose is
Two former PMs among several Australian conservatives are linked to Jordan Peterson-fronted Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, which is concerned with ‘issues metaphysical, cultural and practical’ → Read More
‘Pushed into humanity’: can learning about storytelling make better doctors?
Narrative medicine encourages doctors to engage more deeply with patients by listening to their stories of experience → Read More
Why stop at Fraser Island? Many more Australian places should have their offensive names changed
There’s Murdering Creek, Butcher’s Creek – so prolific are inappropriate placenames, many non-Indigenous Australians seem inured to their violent histories → Read More
As the Ben Roberts-Smith case proves, it’s time for Australia to abandon our farcical myths of Anzac
Good history – like good journalism and justice – has as its bedrock fact → Read More
The parting gift from my dying friend was an extraordinary act of selfless compassion
In the hospital room I lost it. I stood there awkwardly with wet eyes. And then something incredible happened → Read More
Can we keep my nautical prints? When couples move in together, they face a tough test
Compromise is a wonderful thing, but undergraduate chic is not for everyone → Read More
‘Brothers in arms, a long way from home’: the first Australians to fight fascism overseas
The discovery of a rare photo from the Spanish civil war raises questions about why volunteers from Australia are not commemorated → Read More
This Anzac Day, beware politicians glossing over war’s evils to justify further military adventurism
Politicians will always sanitise the prosaic horror of combat death – and the ugly human fallout on the families of veterans → Read More
Autumn has been totally skewwhiff in Sydney this year, devoid of its customary cadence and meter
Is it too soon to be nostalgic for all those soft, gentle Marches? Here’s hoping not → Read More
After John Howard took Australia to war in Iraq, he was scarcely held to account. Instead, he was re-elected
On the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Paul Daley maps out the events leading up to Australia’s involvement and the consequent fallout → Read More
A handshake with Gough Whitlam and a divide between my parents that time couldn’t heal
The election win 50 years ago delighted by father and angered my mother. Their politics were never reconciled yet they stayed together until my father’s death → Read More
The Australian War Memorial’s intransigence on depicting the frontier wars speaks louder than words
Any meaningful shift in policy will need to amount to more than acquiring and hanging new artwork in a dedicated space → Read More
The Anzac cloak has shielded the Australian War Memorial from criticism. Its recognition of frontier violence is long overdue
The integrity of Australian history demands truth-telling and our shrine to the military should lead the way → Read More
Unplugging from the mind trap of online noise made me realise tuning out is the only way to truly tune in
Since rediscovering the calm of a quieter state, I’m learning to reconnect and embrace the sounds of my life → Read More
Should the circumnavigation of Australia be marked as foundation day? Ted Egan thinks so
The folk singer has long been preoccupied with the (white) blind spots of Australian history → Read More
Beneath what’s become the hidden pandemic lie tales of pain and anguish
For me, the symptoms were not mild and at times were vaguely frightening. I don’t want to get it again → Read More
Every Hill Got A Story: collected First Nations oral histories are a profound gift to national memory
Bequeathed from memory to memory, these records remind us how recently central Australian Indigenous people felt the upheaval of colonialism → Read More
What makes a great political speech? Let’s talk about oratory, my fellow citizens
The leader must be willing to go beyond party politics, and demonstrate humanity, candour and raw emotion → Read More
This picture tells the story of a prison that was – and remains – medieval for Aboriginal inmates
Indigenous prisoners at Roebourne in the scorching Pilbara still suffer in cells without air-conditioning, like they did 120 years ago → Read More