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From the archive
Irresistible attraction
Richard Johnstone
24 October 2019
Despite disappearing from public view for decades, Olive Cotton was still gripped by photography’s artistic potential
From the archive
Coffee first, then care
Diana Bagnall
8 October 2021
Buurtzorg provides more humane care for elderly people at a lower cost. So what’s stopping it from being adopted in Australia?
From the archive
Self and Other
Zora Simic
4 October 2021
In a previously unpublished novel, Simone de Beauvoir traces a life-changing friendship
From the archive
On being cosmopolitan
Sara Dowse
22 October 2021
In search of his forebears, a writer finds an era of “constructive cosmopolitan complexity”
From the archive
The sorrows of young Joni
Andrew Ford
19 November 2020
Music
| A new set of early recordings reveals again a singer-songwriter in a class of her own
From the archive
Dressing up
Jane Goodall
1 February 2021
Television
|
Bridgerton
isn’t alone. Period drama is back with a vengeance
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National Affairs
National Affairs
Missing persons
Peter Brent
20 December 2021
MPs’ popularity (and the extra advantage of being a first-termer) is rarely included in electoral calculus
National Affairs
Diversity deferred, again?
Margaret Simons
16 December 2021
Another inquiry has made recommendations to improve media diversity. All that’s lacking is action
National Affairs
The curious case of the missing election issue
John Edwards
13 December 2021
An urgent economic challenge will scarcely get a mention when Labor and the Coalition go head to head
National Affairs
Promises, promises…
Ray Edmondson
8 December 2021
Why has the National Film and Sound Archive suddenly found political favour?
National Affairs
Time for a knock-down-rebuild of housing policy
Adam Triggs
7 December 2021
Governments around the world are using innovative policies to solve housing affordability challenges. Why not Australia?
Essays & Reportage
Essays & Reportage
The Singapore grip
Tim Colebatch
17 December 2021
Singapore is good at solving economic challenges, but its political stagnation is stopping it from dealing with social problems
Essays & Reportage
Fake history
Klaus Neumann
8 December 2021
Has the significance of the
Tampa
affair been exaggerated?
Essays & Reportage
The citizen historian
Frank Bongiorno
1 December 2021
Stuart Macintyre, 1947–2021
Essays & Reportage
Uptight and uncomfortable
Renée Jeffery
22 November 2021
How can we improve Australia’s uneasy engagement with the global human rights system?
Essays & Reportage
The rise and fall of an Australian dynasty
Rodney Tiffen
22 November 2021
The Packers maintained their wealth and power through almost four generations. Then things went wrong
Books & Arts
Books & Arts
Electric ambition
Jock Given
25 January 2022
Elon Musk has cast a spell across global business and investment. Someone needed to
Books & Arts
Thinking Black
Tim Rowse
11 January 2022
A new biography shows how William Cooper set out to civilise white Australia
Books & Arts
Becoming refugees
Klaus Neumann
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
Books & Arts
Days of hope
Sara Dowse
17 December 2021
Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s
Books & Arts
Dispatches from a firestorm
Tom Griffiths
16 December 2021
An insider’s account of the Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20 exposes the wider failings of the Morrison government
International
International
Crash through or crash
Nic Maclellan
8 December 2021
By forcing the pace of New Caledonia’s self-determination process, France’s overseas minister risks an illegitimate vote this weekend
International
Little Pinks and their achy breaky hearts
Linda Jaivin
3 December 2021
China’s army of easily offended young internet-watchers is attracting its own critics
International
Jostling giants
John Edwards
30 November 2021
Does America really need a novel strategy to counter China’s rise?
International
Lest we forget Afghanistan
Hamish McDonald
12 November 2021
Bad decisions on both sides are getting in the way of any moves to recognise the new regime in Kabul
International
On the shoulders of giants
Nic Maclellan
9 November 2021
Pacific voices, young and old, have been calling for action at COP26
Correspondents
Correspondents
Glasgow kiss
Michael Jacobs
15 November 2021
Is it finally the end of the line for fossil fuels? Our correspondent’s Glasgow COP26 wrap-up
Correspondents
“System change, not climate change!”
Michael Jacobs
9 November 2021
There is a paradox at the heart of climate activists’ demands for the overthrow of capitalism
Correspondents
Closing the Glasgow gap
Michael Jacobs
4 November 2021
With the national leaders departing, the climate talks are commencing in earnest. And the optimists see grounds for hope
Correspondents
The Glasgow paradox
Michael Jacobs
27 October 2021
What exactly is up for negotiation at next week’s COP26 conference?
Correspondents
Between the idea and the reality
Michael Jacobs
14 October 2021
The British PM will need to shake off his party’s deepest beliefs to reform the British economy