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Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall, Inside Story’s TV critic, is an Emeritus Professor with the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. Her latest book is The Politics of the Common Good (NewSouth, 2019).

Books & arts Jane Goodall 30 October 2014 The thirtieth anniversary of SBS’s Dateline is a chance to consider some often-unreported truths, writes Jane Goodall
Books & arts Jane Goodall 30 September 2014 With SBS viewers seeing 1960s America through the eyes of television and the ABC profiling four Australians who fled to London to join the decade’s ferment, the sixties… Books & arts Jane Goodall 27 August 2014 Five decades after viewers first encountered the Tardis, a new Doctor goes to air. But how much has really changed? Books & arts Jane Goodall 29 July 2014 The centenary of the first world war has begun, writes Jane Goodall, but Australia’s public broadcasters are still feeling their way Books & arts Jane Goodall 6 June 2014 Jane Goodall reviews two new documentaries about wildfires
Books & arts Jane Goodall 20 May 2014 What is the cost of feeding our national appetites? Jane Goodall watches ABC TV one Monday night
Books & arts Jane Goodall 5 May 2014 Despite the overheated judging panel, So You Think You Can Dance deserves to live on, writes Jane Goodall Books & arts Jane Goodall 15 April 2014 Jane Goodall reviews Janet King and Dead Point Books & arts Jane Goodall 15 August 2013 Does misogyny in politics reflect a deeper problem in the character of political debate, asks Jane Goodall Essays & reportage Jane Goodall 5 July 2013 Germaine Greer’s advice to Julia Gillard to “get rid of those bloody jackets!” created a furore. But perhaps she was onto something
Books & arts Jane Goodall 13 February 2013 Could thinking globally be a kind of cognitive intoxication, asks Jane Goodall
Essays & reportage Jane Goodall 1 February 2013 Australia is lagging in its recognition that local views and information count, argues Jane Goodall National affairs Jane Goodall 19 March 2012 Up against cumbersome major parties, Bob Katter’s Australian Party has fielded a better-than-expected group of candidates, writes Jane Goodall. But the leader has… Essays & reportage Jane Goodall 9 January 2012 Václav Havel, who died in December, was Orwell’s true successor, writes Jane Goodall Books & arts Jane Goodall 14 April 2011 Jane Goodall discusses David Malouf’s new Quarterly Essay
National affairs Jane Goodall 16 January 2011 Unprecedented weather events are now to be expected, but we still don’t expect them, writes our correspondent in Toowoomba National affairs Jane Goodall 12 August 2010 By playing to different constituencies during the campaign, the Coalition could be creating big problems for itself, writes Jane Goodall National affairs Jane Goodall 29 July 2010 It’s a federal election, but most of the issues in South East Queensland are local, writes Jane Goodall in Toowomba