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Essays & reportage
Monumental silence
Dean Ashenden
10 October 2024
As the first anniversary of the Voice vote approaches, should we be thinking differently about truth-telling?
Essays & reportage
If you want to fix America, fix Detroit
Don Watson
25 September 2024
Once a symbol of greatness, the city’s uneven decline mirrors the national malaise
Essays & reportage
People-watching in Port Moresby
Gordon Peake
14 September 2024
Our correspondent reacquaints himself with the PNG capital, a place getting a lot more attention these days
Essays & reportage
Gaza at The Hague
Sophie Rigney
13 September 2024
What the International Court of Justice says about Israel’s treatment of the occupied territories and what it means for Australia
Essays & reportage
Is grown-up government enough?
Paul Strangio
3 September 2024
The puzzle of Anthony Albanese’s struggling prime ministership
Essays & reportage
The best kind of troublemaker
Catherine Kevin
16 August 2024
Historian Judith Allen challenged the way historians do their work
Essays & reportage
Angels and demons
Mark Baker
8 August 2024
The military hierarchy took a dim view of aircrew traumatised by their experiences over Nazi Germany
Essays & reportage
Parliament makes history
Frank Bongiorno & Joshua Black
6 August 2024
Following a heated double-dissolution election, both houses met jointly for the first time ever on 6–7 August 1974
Essays & reportage
“The election that never was”
Jenny Hocking and Allison Cadzow
5 August 2024
Gough Whitlam’s 1974 gamble on a double dissolution election paid off for key legislation
Essays & reportage
Joseph Banks and the stolen skulls
Cassandra Pybus
1 August 2024
Behind William Crowther and other controversial colonial-era figures was the collector
par excellence
Essays & reportage
How far we’ve come, and how far we haven’t
Dean Ashenden
10 July 2024
Vilified for his “exhibitionist ecclesiastical activism,” an Italian priest created a fertile place of learning
Essays & reportage
Tragedy and opportunity on the Plenty River
Michael Dillon
4 July 2024
An announcement at Huckitta Station provides a link between native title and police powers
Essays & reportage
Afternoon tea with Mary Gilmore
Anne-Marie Condé
18 June 2024
In search of the women behind the
The Worker Cook Book
Essays & reportage
Professionalism meets freedom in academia
Katy Barnett
18 June 2024
When the personal shouldn’t be the political
Essays & reportage
Selling the forest, not the trees
Jo Chandler
3 May 2024
Villages are banding together in the Solomon Islands to show that carbon credits can have multiple benefits
Essays & reportage
From a distance
Anne-Marie Condé
23 April 2024
A chance find reveals a trove of wartime letters and other memorabilia
Essays & reportage
A Dili diary
Nicholas Jose
18 April 2024
Layers of history — Portugese, Dutch, Japanese, Indonesian, Australian — aren’t far from the surface in the Timorese capital and its hinterland
Essays & reportage
Unbeaching the whale: the book
Dean Ashenden
25 March 2024
A different kind of school reform is needed — reform of governance, the sector system and the daily work of students and teachers
Essays & reportage
Olympic origins
Jock Given
20 March 2024
Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have
Essays & reportage
Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion
Murray Goot
12 March 2024
Is the
Australian
’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
Essays & reportage
Ben Chifley’s pipe
Anne-Marie Condé
7 March 2024
A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows
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Red flags
Ebony Nilsson
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
Essays & reportage
How journalism should be done
Peter Martin
30 January 2024
A former colleague pays tribute to longstanding
Inside Story
contributor Tim Colebatch
Essays & reportage
John Curtin’s potato
Anne-Marie Condé
26 January 2024
A gift to a prime minister gives a glimpse of the life of an Australian toiler
Essays & reportage
Modi’s expatriate army
Hamish McDonald
20 December 2023
Western leaders are distancing themselves from the Hindu nationalism popular in some sections of India’s diaspora
Essays & reportage
Israel’s failed bombing campaign in Gaza
Robert A. Pape
8 December 2023
Collective punishment won’t defeat Hamas
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Continent of fire
Tom Griffiths
6 December 2023
Australia’s fatal firestorms have a distinctive and mainly Victorian lineage, but the 2019–20 season was frighteningly new
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A rainy day in Hobart
Anne-Marie Condé
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
Essays & reportage
The world after John Curtin
Tom Griffiths
24 November 2023
What guidance for the challenges facing the planet can we find in the words of one of Australia’s greatest prime ministers?
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The Lebers, a family of ratbags
Seumas Spark
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
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