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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

January 2025

  • Aboriginal Flag at the Sovereignty Day rally on the forecourt of Parliament House in 2024

    Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past

    Paul Daley
  • Old books in different formats and arranged so that no text, author's name or publisher is visible.

    Summer essentials
    My study is a bibliophile’s breakfast, the house is overrun. It’s time for the great book culling to begin

    Paul Daley

December 2024

  • A bag of dog waste tied to a tree

    Poodunnit: dear fellow dog owners, why do so many of you bother to bag pet mess then not bin it?

    Paul Daley
  • A selection of the best Australian books of the year, as chosen by Guardian Australia

    Summer essentials
    The 25 best Australian books of 2024: Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Nam Le and more

November 2024

  • Young male taking photos of mountain in background

    Best reads of 2024
    Now is the time to unplug and reset. Next year we enter a more dangerous world – but for now I need the silence of nature

    Paul Daley
  • Parade for May Day (International Workers’ Day) in Sydney in 1944. Front left: Wollongong steel worker Jim McNeill in a slouch hat and second Australian Imperial Force uniform.

    Why is there no official memorial in Australia to citizens who fought and died in the Spanish civil war?

    Paul Daley
  • Shaun Micallef at Cyril Curtain Reserve, Williamstown Beach.

    Walk with ...
    Shaun Micallef: ‘We used to make terrible jokes about Bridget McKenzie, but she was very nice about it’

  • Former US president Donald Trump and Australia's US ambassador Kevin Rudd

    A second Trump presidency would put Australia on a collision course with the US

    Paul Daley

October 2024

  • Then Australian prime minister Julia Gillard and foreign minister Kevin Rudd in parliament in 2012

    Kevin Rudd had secret agreement with Julia Gillard to hand over power after two terms, new book claims

  • Female soldier stands holding rifle looking down in reflective pose at dawn

    Australia treats its armed forces veterans with a perversely shabby contempt

    Paul Daley
  • Artist and Musician Reg Mombassa for "Walk with" series, Journalist Paul Daley. Friday 30th August 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia

    Walk with ...
    Reg Mombassa: ‘I’m just grateful I’m still alive’

  • Brooks Soak, Nothern Territory, 2003. A plaque unveiled at the commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Coniston Massacre at Brooks Soak north of Alice Springs today. The Coniston Massacre is Australia's most recent and best documented mass killing of Aboriginal people. Between 31 and 100 Aboriginal men, women and children were killed by police at Coniston, about 300km north-west of Alice Springs, following the murder of a white man in 1928. (AAP Image/Karen Michelmore) NO ARCHIVING

    You can tell any story you want about Australia’s colonial past. That doesn’t make it history

    Paul Daley

September 2024

  • An Australian defence force hat and medal on a bench with beach and water in the background

    ‘I served my country, but I never felt so discarded in my life’: how the ADF pushed its own witness to the brink of suicide

  • 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?”’

  • Lane Cove council has placed a giant banner on the Sydney foreshore to block the view of properties after multiple trees were vandalised.

    The punishment for felling Australia’s foreshore trees is a mere pittance against developers’ obscene profits

    Paul Daley
  • 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

August 2024

  • 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

  • Anzac Day

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

    Paul Daley
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