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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

September 2024

  • Australian Prime Minister John Howard emerges from a Black Hawk helicopter as IN<br>(AUSTRALIA OUT) Australian Prime Minister John Howard emerges from a Black Hawk helicopter as INTERFET Commander Major-General Peter Cosgrove, left, looks on at Batugade, East Timor, 28 November 1999. SMH Picture by ANDREW MEARES (Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images)

    Australia helped bring peace to Timor-Leste – but that doesn’t absolve it of a long appeasement of Indonesia

    Paul Daley
    The Howard government promoted itself 25 years ago as the people’s champion while at the same time affording Jakarta diplomatic cover for militia violence

August 2024

  • Liane Moriarty sitting on a stone wall with the beach in the background

    Walk with ...
    Liane Moriarty: ‘I was wondering, “How is everyone on this plane going to die?”’

  • The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the world should ‘answer the SOS before it is too late’ on climate change, Paul Daley writes

    Winter’s unseasonal warmth and clear skies are glorious – but a forbidding sign of danger to come

    Paul Daley
  • David Day and the Young Hawke book cover

    Young Hawke by David Day review – a gritty, disturbing addition to former prime minister’s story

  • Bathurst, NSW.

    In Bathurst, memories of dispossession and war simmer beneath the surface

  • NSW’s Anzac Day retail ban is the latest in a long line of pious and empty symbolic gestures

    Paul Daley

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

  • 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
    The University of Melbourne and the South Australian Museum are taking starkly different approaches to addressing their toxic histories

May 2024

  • 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

  • Ormond College at the University of Melbourne

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

    Paul Daley
  • 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
  • ‘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

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

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