Inside Story

Essays & reportage What is the Liberal Party for? Norman Abjorensen 7 December 2018 History could help the Liberals out of their malaise Essays & reportage The door John Newfong nudged ajar David Armstrong 21 November 2018 The pioneering Indigenous journalist played a key role in establishing the Tent Embassy in Canberra. His work has been recognised this month by the Australian Media Hall of Fame Essays & reportage “When you work in a zoo it’s dangerous to get too friendly with the animals” Laurie Oakes 21 November 2018 Despite his warning to young journalists, Alan Reid was both observer and player in Parliament House. His work has been recognised this month by the Australian Media Hall of Fame Essays & reportage “There is this woman, Charmian Clift. And I have to dress up as her and go out and be her” Margaret Simons 21 November 2018 The writer who remade the women’s column has been recognised by the Australian Media Hall of Fame

Essays & reportage Watching a brilliant thinker stretching his mind Graeme Davison 11 October 2018 Why should we read Hugh Stretton in the twenty-first century? Essays & reportage Opening the windows in a stuffy room Ken Inglis 26 September 2018 The influential fortnightly magazine Nation was launched in Sydney sixty years ago today. In this essay first published in 1989, one of its best-known contributors… Essays & reportage The universities at the end of the universe Robbie Robertson 24 September 2018 The Ramsay Centre is still seeking a home for its Western civilisation course, but the concept itself doesn’t stand up to scrutiny Essays & reportage Revival on the Darling Robert Milliken 18 September 2018 An outback town finds a way to cut Indigenous crime and imprisonment where governments have failed

Essays & reportage Like Uber, but for politics Dominic Kelly 9 August 2018 The false promise of digital democracy Essays & reportage The hospital for bare life Annabel Stafford 9 August 2018 A visit to the site of Wyndham’s Native Hospital prompts the question: what does it mean to live outside the protection of the state? Essays & reportage Fighting words Peter Cochrane 2 August 2018 Extract | As the first world war approached, anxiety grew about the vulnerability of Australia to attack from the north. A key role was played by the man who would be the… Essays & reportage Citizenship elegy Antje Missbach 31 July 2018 A social scientist goes in search of an elusive Australian passport