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Essays & reportage The sixpenny restaurant, a most wonderful example of Victorian progress and prosperity The Vagabond 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 What Gonski really meant, and how that’s been forgotten almost everywhere Ken Boston 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 New map, old roads Patrick Sullivan 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 The war on sprawl Graeme Davison 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 Secrets of nation 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 Harold Holt and the art of personal diplomacy 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 The beginning of the end of the White Australia policy 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 Farewell to the spirit of 1967 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 Financing government in uncertain times 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 Making medicine count 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 Dream library takes shape 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 High pressure for low emissions: how civil society created the Paris climate agreement Michael Jacobs 23 March 2016 A coalition of organisations forced the hands of the world’s major polluters