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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

April 2025

  • Indigenous elder Uncle Larry Walsh

    ‘The file says I have a criminal record since the age of two’: the not-so-extraordinary story of Uncle Larry Walsh

  • A member of the Australian defence force plays The Last Post at the Shrine of Remembrance during the Anzac Day dawn service in Melbourne on 25 April 2024

    While secularism is growing in Australia, Anzac commemorations remain fervently Christian

    Paul Daley
  • Australian boxer Diana Prazak, photographed at her home in Moreno Valley, California

    ‘You’ll never amount to anything’: the boxing world champion you’ve never heard of

  • Trees with yellow and orange leaves beside an empty road

    As a kid I hated Easter because nothing happened – now I treasure its stillness and strange beauty

    Paul Daley

  • Stubborn or resolute: Anthony Albanese’s lifelong political instinct faces final judgment

  • With friends like Trump, who needs Aukus? ALP members are demanding an answer

    Paul Daley

March 2025

  • Older driver

    When Dad couldn’t drive any more, it was devastating – but he was just too old

    Paul Daley
  • Presiden Trump Speaks About Oval Office Meeting with Zelensky in Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 28 Feb 2025<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/UPI/REX/Shutterstock (15173676f) President Donald Trump prepares to speak to the media about his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday, February 28, 2025. The Ukrainian leader was asked to leave the White House after Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated him during a meeting in the Oval Office. Presiden Trump Speaks About Oval Office Meeting with Zelensky in Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 28 Feb 2025

    The dangerous folly of Australia’s come-what-may sycophancy towards Trump is on full display

    Paul Daley

February 2025

  • Boy with bike

    ‘Be careful’ was the mantra of our parents as we set out to roam the neighbourhood as teens. We never were

    Paul Daley
    The cautious phrase was such a red-rag that I’ve tried hard not to say it to my own kids. It hasn’t always worked
  • Peter Garrett, Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician at the Nelson Lane Steps in Annandale, Sydney.

    Walk with ...
    Peter Garrett: ‘This is the worst deal ever done by a sovereign Australian government’

    The Midnight Oil frontman, former Labor MP and conservationist muses on politics, prescient lyrics, and whether the Rolling Stones should give up touring
  • Stock image of a man's legs in jeans and shoes. The man is lying on asphalt.

    I’m told there is an age at which falling over becomes ‘having a fall’. But I’m not nearly ready for that

    Paul Daley
    A recent trip while walking the dog made me recheck my immense good fortune and my faith in the goodness of others

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

    Political memoir by former factional boss Kim Carr also alleges Gillard used 'tricked-up’ polling funded by the mining industry to build case to oust rival
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