National Affairs
12 August 2021
Twenty years — and many billions of dollars — later, Australia’s failed system of offshore detention lingers on
From the archive
11 June 2021
Aboriginal people in the town famously visited by the Freedom Ride are taking an innovative approach to their community’s problems
National Affairs
12 February 2021
Craig Kelly is just the latest hardline conservative to cause trouble within the Liberal Party, and he’s unlikely to be the last
National Affairs
12 June 2020
Two major inquiries have recommended a simple measure to reduce Aboriginal deaths in custody. So why have most states taken so long to act?
Essays & Reportage
23 April 2020
It’s an unsettling time to watch Stanley Kramer’s classic, On the Beach
Essays & Reportage
6 February 2020
Migration is helping make drought-stricken Dubbo a dynamic regional city
Essays & Reportage
10 May 2019
A new statue of Aboriginal rights leader William Ferguson links politics past and present
Essays & Reportage
16 March 2019
Craig Laundy has announced he won’t be seeking another term in federal parliament. Inside Story caught up with him in September 2015
National Affairs
11 December 2018
An outback town’s gamble on cutting Indigenous crime is paying remarkable dividends
Essays & Reportage
18 September 2018
An outback town finds a way to cut Indigenous crime and imprisonment where governments have failed
National Affairs
25 June 2018
In his first full national interview since taking his seat in the Senate, the low-key independent talks about Asia, the Uluru Statement and the unemployed — and why he still…
National Affairs
14 March 2018
With coal on the way out, the state’s prospects are bright, says the businessman who backs Labor’s energy plans
National Affairs
16 May 2017
Australia’s pioneering laws, likely to survive the latest legal actions, are having an impact around the world
National Affairs
31 July 2015
Governments have ignored a new report exposing appalling rates of young Indigenous people in detention, writes Robert Milliken. But a new response is attracting growing support
National Affairs
23 May 2013
In uncertain economic times, South Australia has found a few niches but is looking for more, writes Robert Milliken
National Affairs
5 March 2013
A river community’s campaign to stop coal-seam gas captures the new face of rural politics in Australia, writes Robert Milliken
National Affairs
3 April 2012
The NSW attorney-general has taken the politically risky step of trying to reduce the prison population, writes Robert Milliken
Essays & Reportage
20 January 2011
Robert Milliken recounts the fraught relationship between two Australian women who made enormous contributions to the international literature of the counterculture
Correspondents
27 July 2009
Australian wine has suffered a beating in the American press but one man is standing up for it, writes Robert Milliken in San Francisco
Essays & Reportage
25 May 2009
Queensland is in flood, but none of the water is likely to make the long journey down the Darling and the Murray to South Australia, reports Robert Milliken in Murray Bridge