Inside Story

Essays & reportage Where were the Aborigines? Hal Wootten 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 Every town is a Bordertown Peter Mares 14 December 2016 Near the South Australia–Victoria border, a small community captures the highs and lows of the migration experience Essays & reportage Ken Inglis and the Dunera: a seventy-year history Seumas Spark 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 The long, slow demise of the “marriage bar” Marian Sawer 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 Paying for outcomes: beyond the social impact bond buzz Matt Tyler & Ben Stephens 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 Charles Anton, cultural agent Philipp Strobl 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 Will social impact bonds change the world? Mike Steketee 4 October 2016 The concept has spread like wildfire but the results, here and overseas, are mixed Essays & reportage Beijing’s guoqing versus Australia’s way of life John Fitzgerald 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 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 After the walk-off Charlie Ward 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.…