Essays & reportage
10 February 2017
Donald Trump’s sacking of Sally Yates raises broader questions about how best to respond to the new administration
Essays & reportage
8 February 2017
Beginning to understand an Indigenous language brought Lea McInerney a little closer to a deeper story
Essays & reportage
1 February 2017
Schools in Australia and New Zealand set off in opposite directions in the 1970s. Tom Greenwell looks at where they have ended up
Essays & reportage
19 January 2017
My unexpected lunch with James Fairfax, once heir to the media empire
Essays & reportage
22 December 2016
Keith Windschuttle has assembled a highly selective case against recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
Essays & reportage
19 December 2016
The 1966 equal pay case was a product of the silence at the heart of Indigenous policy, writes one of the lawyers briefed in the case
Essays & reportage
14 December 2016
Near the South Australia–Victoria border, a small community captures the highs and lows of the migration experience
Essays & reportage
12 December 2016
Among the speakers at last month’s conference at Monash University on the work of historian Ken Inglis was Seumas Spark, who is working with Ken and the American…
Essays & reportage
8 December 2016
It wasn’t until 1966 that women in the Australian public service won the right to remain employed after marriage, overcoming resistance even from their own union
Essays & reportage
8 December 2016
Two men, two legs, two stories…
Essays & reportage
5 December 2016
Reality fails to align with theory in a new conservative analysis of what makes Australia exceptional
Essays & reportage
1 December 2016
In a world-leading public health measure, highly effective anti-virals have been made available to treat Hepatitis C under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
Essays & reportage
30 November 2016
The appointment of the new chief justice is a reminder that diversity and merit are not mutually exclusive
Essays & reportage
23 November 2016
When the Coalition won the November 1966 federal election, the Labor Party had no alternative but to modernise
Essays & reportage
15 November 2016
A wartime TV series that premiered forty years ago tapped into the mood of the mid seventies
Essays & reportage
28 October 2016
Social impact bonds’ most valuable contribution could be to support the expansion of pay-for-success contracting to dramatically improve the lives of vulnerable Australians
Essays & reportage
21 October 2016
Postwar migrants brought from Europe ideas that helped shape Australian culture and industry, including the country’s early ski resorts
Essays & reportage
4 October 2016
The concept has spread like wildfire but the results, here and overseas, are mixed
Essays & reportage
27 September 2016
Beijing’s role in the Chinese community media in Australia is increasingly in conflict with its own demand for respect
Essays & reportage
21 September 2016
With education ministers meeting this week to discuss school funding, a close look at the figures reveals large differences between states and sectors
Essays & reportage
17 September 2016
Howard on Menzies makes for compelling viewing. But its flaws echo the shortcomings of Australia’s longest-serving prime minister
Essays & reportage
13 September 2016
A historic shift has given readers the edge over advertisers in determining the news media’s viability, writes Tom Greenwell. But what will that mean in practice?
Essays & reportage
12 September 2016
Unions, residents and community groups took on a powerful government agency to thwart plans for the wholesale redevelopment of Australia’s oldest suburb, writes Jim Colman
Essays & reportage
7 September 2016
Much has changed since the earliest photojournalism, write Sally Young and Fay Anderson. But some challenges have made a comeback in the digital age
Essays & reportage
6 September 2016
Under his pseudonym “the Vagabond,” John Stanley James explored Australia’s major capital cities with fresh eyes in the 1870s and 80s. Here, he takes a culinary…
Essays & reportage
6 September 2016
Governments began watering down Gonski’s school-funding recommendations right from the start, says panel member Ken Boston. But New South Wales shows how it could have been
Essays & reportage
2 September 2016
It’s time for a national inquiry into how the outback can be better funded for black and white alike, writes Patrick Sullivan
Essays & reportage
31 August 2016
Ever since William Thackeray satirised the London suburb of Clapham in 1855, critics and supporters of the suburbs have been battling it out, writes Graeme Davison
Essays & reportage
24 August 2016
Between their historic departure from Wave Hill station in 1966 and Gough Whitlam’s return of their land in 1975, the Gurindji people lived through a decade of uncertainty.…
Essays & reportage
22 August 2016
The Coalition and Labor both say their offshore processing policies are driven by realism, writes Peter Mares. But a practical approach must engage with moral questions as well