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Losing ground?
Murray Goot
9 June 2023
Support for the Voice may not have dropped as much as the latest Newspoll suggests
International
Kissinger and his critics
Barbara Keys
9 June 2023
How does the former secretary of state feel about being called a war criminal?
Books & Arts
Mad for the feathers
William McInnes
9 June 2023
A lifelong birdwatcher reviews Libby Robin’s
What Birdo Is That?
National Affairs
Dazzled on the Danube
Peter Browne
7 June 2023
What was Greg Sheridan doing in Budapest?
Books & Arts
Baked into our bricks
Zora Simic
7 June 2023
A writer considers the “state of the sexual nation”
Correspondents
Where’s the climate action?
Michael Jacobs
5 June 2023
The latest UN climate conference is under way in Bonn. But the real action might be elsewhere
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National Affairs
National Affairs
Heart of darkness
Hamish McDonald
2 June 2023
The judgement against Ben Roberts-Smith throws the spotlight onto the special war crimes investigator
National Affairs
Murder he wrote
Mark Baker
2 June 2023
Ben Roberts-Smith might be the author of his own fall, but the implications extend to the highest levels of military decision-making
National Affairs
More closure in Western Australia
John Phillimore
1 June 2023
A premier chooses when to depart, with potential federal implications
National Affairs
The perfect versus the good
Peter Mares
22 May 2023
How hard should the Greens push on housing?
National Affairs
The referendum’s lines in the sand
Tim Rowse
19 May 2023
If the parliamentary committee is any guide, representation and risk have become the sharpest dividing lines in the Voice debate
Essays & Reportage
Essays & Reportage
The evolution of a myth
Bain Attwood
29 May 2023
How William Cooper became “the man who stood up to Hitler”
Essays & Reportage
Boomer time
Robert Milliken
24 May 2023
Inside Story
editor Peter Browne introduces a memoir of Australia’s fifties by contributor Robert Milliken, who died last Sunday
Essays & Reportage
New media’s idiosyncratic survivor
Margaret Simons
18 May 2023
Crikey
emerges from its dispute with Lachlan Murdoch with a familiar figure at the helm
Essays & Reportage
From Indigenous recognition to the Voice, and back again
Murray Goot
15 May 2023
There are signs of a shift in strategy by the Yes forces, but are the polls keeping up?
Essays & Reportage
’King oath
Graeme Orr
8 May 2023
Eight months a king, Charles finally took the coronation oath. Did the wait matter?
Books & Arts
Books & Arts
Fire, ash and official secrecy
Graeme Dobell
5 June 2023
The authorised history of Australia’s role in East Timor’s 1999–2000 crisis reveals as much about Canberra as it does about Dili
Books & Arts
Good story, bad theory
Tom Greenwell
2 June 2023
An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it
Books & Arts
Every story tells a picture
Richard Johnstone
2 June 2023
What’s different about photos generated with AI?
Books & Arts
Bringing it home
Jane Goodall
30 May 2023
Succession
’s conclusion highlights a paradox
Books & Arts
Stateless, and loving it
Ryan Cropp
25 May 2023
Inspired by Hong Kong’s rise, countries all over the world created free-market enclaves. But who has really benefited?
International
International
Thailand’s watershed election
Susannah Patton
23 May 2023
Will the political establishment finally recognise that voter sentiment has shifted decisively?
International
Saffron bus blows tyre
Robin Jeffrey
15 May 2023
Narendra Modi’s well-oiled machine ran into trouble in the southern state of Karnataka
International
Timor-Leste’s once-in-a-generation election
Michael Leach
20 April 2023
The 21 May election campaign kicks off with demographic change as its wildcard
International
Is Donald Trump losing his grip?
Lesley Russell
20 April 2023
Regardless of his legal problems, the former president’s self-obsession is increasingly alienating middle-of-the-road voters
International
The Quad couple: India and Australia
Robin Jeffrey
31 March 2023
Let’s start with the good news about Australia–India relations
Correspondents
Correspondents
Xanana’s triumph
Michael Leach
23 May 2023
It’s victory in Timor-Leste for the veteran leader’s CNRT
Correspondents
Death of a newspaper
Nic Maclellan
8 May 2023
The closing of New Caledonia’s only daily comes at a delicate point in the debate over the French territory’s future
Correspondents
King, country and the Conservatives
Peter Kellner
6 May 2023
Local election defeats across England make it a better day to be a monarch than a prime minister
Correspondents
Bruised but not yet beaten
Andrew Dodd
21 April 2023
A hundred million here, a hundred million there: is it just the cost of doing business for News Corp?
Correspondents
Banking on Banga
Michael Jacobs
18 April 2023
The new World Bank president wants change, but will he get the backing he needs?