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National Affairs Chris Winter & Ramón Spaaij 15 November 2018 What does the research tell us about this increasingly common phenomenon?
National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 14 November 2018 The Voice and the republic might just add up to a winning combination Correspondents Tom Bamforth 14 November 2018 A visit to a refugee camp in a conservative district of Berlin reveals successful efforts to understand and accommodate National Affairs David Clune 12 November 2018 The state party’s new leader stands in a long tradition, but it’s not clear what that will mean in practice
National Affairs Melissa Sweet 12 November 2018 Could there be such a thing as a healthy airport? International Lesley Russell 12 November 2018 Well, the ripple has become a wave, with the respected FiveThirtyEight now estimating that the Democrats have picked up thirty-eight seats in the House. Here’s Lesley…

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National Affairs

National Affairs Matthew Ricketson 15 November 2018 With Fairfax shareholders voting next week on the merger with Nine, it’s a good time to consider how well the company’s journalism has weathered a period of enormous change
National Affairs Jane Goodall 9 November 2018 As a politician, the former prime minister remains an enigma that Q&A couldn’t crack National Affairs John Daley and Brendan Coates 9 November 2018 Despite what the industry is saying, we don’t need to lift the superannuation Gguarantee to 12 per cent National Affairs Margaret Simons 9 November 2018 There’s a good reason why the ACCC didn’t block the Fairfax–Nine merger, and it tells us why government policy needs to change National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 8 November 2018 Being prime minister is harder than Scott Morrison might have thought

Essays & Reportage

Essays & Reportage Peter Spearritt 9 November 2018 A little-known incident captures divisions among Australians during the first world war
Essays & Reportage Scott Bennett 9 November 2018 A visit to Ypres prompts the question: do war memorials hide more than they reveal? Essays & Reportage John Tilemann 9 November 2018 How is Austria marking the centenary of the end of the empire? Essays & Reportage Anne McNevin 5 November 2018 Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains forces us to rethink our very idea of ourselves Essays & Reportage Tom Fitzgerald 30 October 2018 A visit to Thirroul and the man who remembers D.H. Lawrence

Books & Arts

Books & Arts Carmela Chivers 9 November 2018 To deal with industrial-scale tax evasion we might need to make our own foray down the rabbit hole
Books & Arts Stephen Mills 8 November 2018 Books | Teamed up with Mark Latham, Pauline Hanson seems set to again follow the trajectory documented by Kerry-Anne Walsh Books & Arts Andrew Ford 2 November 2018 Music | The composition was in on time, but was it any good? Books & Arts Julie Rigg 2 November 2018 Cinema | Julie Rigg reviews Backtrack Boys and Beautiful Boy Books & Arts David Solomon 31 October 2018 Biography | Tiberius meets his Tacitus in this lively biography of a less-than-glorious prime minister

International

International Lesley Russell 29 October 2018 Once again, the depth of division in the United States has been laid bare
International Lesley Russell 19 October 2018 With the US midterm elections less than three weeks away, how likely is a Democratic triumph? International Lesley Russell 5 October 2018 Donald Trump has launched an all-fronts attack on science and environmental protection International Ross Burns 28 September 2018 Funds for a campaign to publicise the destruction of historical sites might be better spent where the damage was done International Louisa Lim 25 September 2018 Uighur families in Adelaide are watching the crackdown in China’s Xinjiang province with intensifying alarm

Correspondents

Correspondents Nic Maclellan 26 October 2018 With New Caledonia’s self-determination vote looming, our correspondent visits the scene of a turning point in the independence struggle
Correspondents David Hayes 17 October 2018 The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift Correspondents David Hayes 8 October 2018 This party leader can’t own or disown his past, nor Labour’s Correspondents Duncan Hewitt 25 September 2018 Updated | Despite opting for a less confrontational chief executive, Beijing has tightened its grip in Hong Kong Correspondents Nic Maclellan 24 September 2018 Nauru’s government tried to restrict journalists covering this month’s Pacific Islands Forum, but only highlighted the desperate state of refugees living on the island, and…

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