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Essays & reportage Anna Haebich, Darryl Kickett and Margaret Culbong 30 May 2018 Extract | A research project is exploring an extraordinary trove of Nyungar letters in Western Australia’s Aboriginal archive
Essays & reportage Margaret Simons 18 May 2018 Four months after the summer troubles, a reporter heads to Melbourne’s western fringe in search of “African gangs” Essays & reportage Graeme Dobell 10 May 2018 Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture Essays & reportage Assa Doron & Robin Jeffrey 28 April 2018 Extract | Discarded hair makes a circuitous journey from India to the West, gathering value along the way Essays & reportage David Fettling 18 April 2018 The Australian prime minister knew that any attempt to resurrect the old British Empire in Asia was doomed to failure
Essays & reportage Gideon Haigh 12 April 2018 Extract | Hidden behind the scandal of Mollie Dean’s death was a story worth telling
Essays & reportage Michelle Scott Tucker 8 April 2018 The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights gaps in the story of colonial Australia Essays & reportage Sue Taffe 28 March 2018 Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett Essays & reportage James Panichi 26 March 2018 Politico’s takeover of a sleepy weekly at Europe’s political epicentre promised great things. But something went wrong when the big stories began to break Essays & reportage Billy Griffiths 23 March 2018 Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England
Essays & reportage Diana Bagnall 20 March 2018 The problems at the Park Street headquarters of Bauer Media are a microcosm of an industry slowly adjusting to a blizzard of change
Essays & reportage Tony Blackshield 12 March 2018 Efforts to water down gun control in the United States have relied on a shift in how a majority of Supreme Court justices view two thorny constitutional issues Essays & reportage Matthew Ricketson & Rodney Tiffen 22 February 2018 Michael Wolff’s book owes a large debt to the ethically grounded work of the journalists he professes to disdain Essays & reportage Jane Goodall 12 February 2018 Can the campaign encompass vastly different experiences? Essays & reportage Alan Fewster 8 February 2018 Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 6 February 2018 Dutch news site De Correspondent represents a radical challenge to traditional journalistic practice. Now, it’s about to launch in the United States
Essays & reportage Peter Mares 22 January 2018 Youth homelessness is more than a question of affordable accommodation. A new project shows how music can play an unexpected role Essays & reportage Tim Dunlop 16 January 2018 As Uber picks itself up after another legal blow — this time from the European Court of Justice — an ambivalent observer recalls a visit to the company’s Australian head… Essays & reportage Carl Bridge 6 December 2017 … and how they shared what they learned with the Americans Essays & reportage Alex Millmow 6 December 2017 Called on the eve of a revolution in economic thinking, the 1936–37 banking royal commission mattered in ways that the latest one probably won’t
Essays & reportage Peter Spearritt 30 November 2017 Although Australia’s major capitals are changing fast, cars are still calling many of the shots
Essays & reportage Mike Steketee 16 November 2017 Could the National Disability Insurance Scheme be threatened by higher-than-expected diagnoses of autism and developmental delay? Essays & reportage Mathew Turner 14 November 2017 Controversy has erupted in Germany over the attitudes of key researchers at the Institute for Contemporary History in the 1950s. But does the evidence support the critics’ case? Essays & reportage Tim Dunlop 10 November 2017 With interest growing, supporters gathered in Melbourne recently to discuss the practicalities Essays & reportage Jock Given 23 October 2017 From the archive | Backers of 5G promise breathtaking speed and ultra-reliability. But does Australia need its own vision for the new wireless networks?
Essays & reportage Katherine Wilson 17 October 2017 Extract | Gilda Civitico’s story illuminates the art and the science of tinkering
Essays & reportage Norman Abjorensen 10 October 2017 A gathering flow of news about the revolutionary movement in Russia reached Australian readers during 1917 Essays & reportage Louise Merrington 5 October 2017 Self-publishing need no longer be a second-best option, especially if you’re a writer of genre fiction Essays & reportage Anne-Marie Condé 3 October 2017 The man who first imagined the Australian War Memorial was also active in the creation of another key institution Essays & reportage Jeremy Gans 2 October 2017 A letter from a worried juror threw into doubt Stephen Young’s conviction for the murder of Harry and Nicola Fuller. Did it also pinpoint a weakness in the way juries work?