Inside Story

Great writing, deep analysis

Inside Story was launched in 2008 to bridge the gap between high-quality academic writing and the best journalism. Originally based at Swinburne University, we’re now published by a nonprofit company set up to sustain our publishing. Our aim is to go behind the twenty-four-hour news cycle to analyse political, economic and cultural trends and assess new books and ideas from an Australian perspective.

Inside Story is reader-funded. You can make a donation here.

Editor: Peter Browne
Contributing editor: Peter Mares
Publisher: Mark Baker

Inside Story Publishing Pty Ltd, PO Box 1170, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia • ABN 40617195230

To contact our office, email here. Unfortunately we aren’t able to accept unsolicited contributions at this time.

We gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Cultural Fund and the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Inside Story has also received generous bequests from the estates of Robert Milliken, an Inside Story contributor, and Sylvia Lawson, our film critic 2008–16.

We are grateful for past financial assistance from Swinburne University of Technology, the University of Canberra, the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, the Australian Media and Communications Authority, the University of South Australia and the Australian National University.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the land on which our office is situated, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.