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Boris Johnson, outside in
Jane Goodall
25 October 2022
Kenneth Branagh portrays the former PM’s behaviour with startlingly accuracy. But what’s going on behind the eyes?
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What drives Daniel Andrews?
Tim Colebatch
24 October 2022
Sumeyya Ilanbey has written a tough but fair-minded account of the high-handed premier
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Quo vadis, doctor?
Jacinta Halloran
21 October 2022
Is technology endangering the doctor–patient relationship?
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China’s greatest enemy
Kerry Brown
20 October 2022
Did Beijing set out to mislead the West about its intentions — and did it succeed?
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Amorality for hire
Gideon Haigh
13 October 2022
How does a firm labelled “the greatest legitimiser of mass layoffs… in modern history” continue to sail tranquilly above the fray?
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What is this thing I’m doing?
Zora Simic
13 October 2022
Two new books explore the territory between polyamory’s utopian history and its practice today
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Go with the grain
John Quiggin
13 October 2022
Governments haven’t caught up with the fact that the economy has changed forever
Books & arts
When Betty took over the Pram Factory
Susan Lever
11 October 2022
Kath Kenny’s intergenerational account of a key moment in Australian theatre
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Bearing the unbearable
Matthew Ricketson
10 October 2022
Parents of the Sandy Hook victims took on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones with stunning results
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Portraying the age
Geoff Wilkes
4 October 2022
Joseph Roth’s restless journeying produced an idiosyncratic depiction of central Europe in the twenties and thirties
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Scenes from a marriage
Nicholas Brown
3 October 2022
Two daughters profile a controversial father and an enigmatic mother against the backdrop of the growing bush capital
Books & arts
Literary midwifery
Ryan Cropp
30 September 2022
A biography of two very different editors illuminates literary life in postwar Australia
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Field of dreams
Dean Ashenden
27 September 2022
Does sport have anything to teach Australian schools?
Books & arts
Behind the law’s “sheen of neutrality”
Kate Rossmanith
26 September 2022
In
Black Lives, White Law
, Russell Marks points towards a more hopeful future
Books & arts
The Queen’s music
Andrew Ford
21 September 2022
Music played the role only it could play at the Queen’s funeral
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Central bankers unbound
John Edwards
21 September 2022
The global financial crisis dramatically changed the role of central banks — and then the pandemic came along
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Threshold moments
Nick Haslam
16 September 2022
Is it any surprise that we cling to old rituals and invent new ones?
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Pleasure and intimacy
Alecia Simmonds
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
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Flame wars
Ryan Cropp
12 September 2022
Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause?
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Meeting standards
Andrew Ford
7 September 2022
Pianist and composer Tim Stevens eventually returned to the jazz standards, and we have the pandemic to thank
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On quitting
Jock Given
5 September 2022
Does bowing out involve a kind of “self-discipline normally associated with persistence”?
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China syndromes
Kerry Brown
4 September 2022
Both Britain and Australia need to overcome a curious amnesia about their dealings with China
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Even amoebas
Nick Haslam
4 September 2022
A prince and a psychologist detect more of the Good Samaritan in humans than we might imagine
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Life is beautiful. Life is sad
Sara Dowse
4 September 2022
Some exiles are enriched by their journey, others “killed and yet alive”
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Casting Mystery Road
Jane Goodall
3 September 2022
Director Dylan River, producer Greer Simpkin and casting director Anousha Zarkesh talk to
Inside Story
about creating an ensemble with chemistry
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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
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Becoming refugees
Klaus Neumann
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
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Days of hope
Sara Dowse
17 December 2021
Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s
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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
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