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Essays & reportage Tom Bamforth 11 August 2016 Tom Bamforth discovers the afterlife of Melbourne’s Olympic village
Essays & reportage Tom Griffiths 9 August 2016 For Eric Rolls, historical writing needed to serve the future, writes Tom Griffiths Essays & reportage Matthew Ricketson 4 August 2016 We now know much about what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But the earliest reliable news came from maverick journalists, writes Matthew Ricketson Essays & reportage Graeme Davison 28 July 2016 Published fifty years ago, The Tyranny of Distance changed the way we see Australia, writes Graeme Davison Essays & reportage Ann McGrath 15 July 2016 The buried secrets of Australia’s frontier share features with encounters in the United States, writes Ann McGrath
Essays & reportage Paul Rodan 1 July 2016 He might have been an ardent admirer of the United States, but Harold Holt also brought welcome changes to Australia’s relations with the rest of the world, writes Paul Rodan
Essays & reportage Gwenda Tavan 1 July 2016 Legal reforms in June 1966 removed much of the discrimination built into Australia’s migration policy, writes Gwenda Tavan Essays & reportage Patrick Sullivan 29 June 2016 The rise of “deficit metrics” and the federal government’s retreat from Indigenous affairs have reversed the direction set by the historic 1967 referendum,… Essays & reportage Murray Goot 17 June 2016 It’s wise to take care in interpreting the two-party-preferred poll figures and the 2016 electoral pendulum, writes Murray Goot Essays & reportage Melanie Joosten 17 June 2016 Ageing needs to be treated as a state of living rather than failing, argues Melanie Joosten in this extract from her new book
Essays & reportage Dean Ashenden 15 June 2016 Credentialism has distorted the direction and basis of half a century’s education and training policy, argues Dean Ashenden
Essays & reportage Felicity Wade 2 June 2016 Labor seemed the obvious place to mobilise broader support for strong climate change policies, writes former Wilderness Society staffer Felicity Wade Essays & reportage Jane Gleeson-White 17 May 2016 Expanding how economics measures and reports will have enormous benefits, writes Jane Gleeson-White. And it’s already happening Essays & reportage Madeline Gleeson 11 May 2016 Reopening the PNG detention centre attracted bipartisan support, writes Madeline Gleeson. So how did it go so wrong? Essays & reportage Sam Hurley 22 April 2016 Talking tax is tough. But offering false choices about revenue, spending and globalisation won’t lead to better outcomes, writes Sam Hurley
Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 13 April 2016 Working out whether a treatment works, and for how many people, is trickier than it sounds, writes Frank Bowden. Here’s how you should go about doing it
Essays & reportage Robyn Holmes 5 April 2016 Why did Robert Menzies, no longer prime minister, lay the National Library’s foundation stone fifty years ago? Robyn Holmes scoured the archives to unravel a mystery Essays & reportage Michael Jacobs 23 March 2016 A coalition of organisations forced the hands of the world’s major polluters Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 11 March 2016 Vaccination is not only justified by self-interest. It is also an act of altruism Essays & reportage Shakira Hussein 10 March 2016 Muslim women are urged to break free of patriarchical domestic lives yet viewed with suspicion if they display signs of their religion in…
Essays & reportage Mark Moran 10 March 2016 As the experience of the Queensland community of Kowanyama shows, implementation – rather than the media, politicians or the public service – is the engine room of Indigenous…
Essays & reportage Ramon Lobato and James Meese 12 February 2016 How did Australia’s love affair with Netflix begin? In this extract from a new book, Ramon Lobato and James Meese trace the geoblocking debate and its political fallout Essays & reportage Brett Evans 11 February 2016 Fifty years ago, Australia’s currency went decimal. But the long-awaited transition wasn’t without its problems, writes Brett Evans Essays & reportage Anne Tiernan 3 February 2016 Why do parties have so much trouble learning from past successes and failures, asks Anne Tiernan Essays & reportage Amin Ansari 2 February 2016 In his winning entry for the 2015 Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition, Amin Ansari shows how social media is changing perceptions of asylum seekers seeking safety in Australia
Essays & reportage Peter Browne 18 January 2016 Robert Menzies’s name is synonomous with a long period of stability and prosperity. Does the legend match the facts?
Essays & reportage Tom O'Regan 4 January 2016 The celebrated poet invented his own way of writing about the films of the early sound era, says Tom O’Regan Essays & reportage Peter Mares 4 January 2016 Temporary migration is fuelling a new boom in migration from Italy. But trying to settle permanently can be a disillusioning process Essays & reportage Norman Abjorensen 23 December 2015 Circumstances propelled the gregarious John Gorton into the top job, writes Norman Abjorensen in this extract from his new book. But the party termites quickly got to work Essays & reportage Gavin J.D. Smith 2 December 2015 Why have watershed data retention laws failed to excite more opposition? Three factors might help explain our acquiescence, writes Gavin J.D. Smith