Essays & reportage
1 July 2016
Legal reforms in June 1966 removed much of the discrimination built into Australia’s migration policy, writes Gwenda Tavan
Essays & reportage
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
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
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
15 June 2016
Credentialism has distorted the direction and basis of half a century’s education and training policy, argues Dean Ashenden
Essays & reportage
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
17 May 2016
Expanding how economics measures and reports will have enormous benefits, writes Jane Gleeson-White. And it’s already happening
Essays & reportage
11 May 2016
Reopening the PNG detention centre attracted bipartisan support, writes Madeline Gleeson. So how did it go so wrong?
Essays & reportage
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
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
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
23 March 2016
A coalition of organisations forced the hands of the world’s major polluters
Essays & reportage
11 March 2016
Vaccination is not only justified by self-interest. It is also an act of altruism
Essays & reportage
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
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
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
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
3 February 2016
Why do parties have so much trouble learning from past successes and failures, asks Anne Tiernan
Essays & reportage
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
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
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
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
23 December 2015
Circumstances propelled the gregarious John Gorton into the top job, but the party termites quickly got to work
Essays & reportage
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
Essays & reportage
10 November 2015
The rise of the New Right helped keep Labor in office for over a decade, writes Frank Bongiorno in this extract from his new book
Essays & reportage
13 October 2015
Robotics meets fish farming in an innovative new technique being developed by Australian scientist Neil Sims, writes Brett Evans
Essays & reportage
30 September 2015
When America sneezes, writes Andrew Leigh, Australian state governments catch a cold. And when the weather turns bad, guess who’s held responsible?
Essays & reportage
19 September 2015
Malcolm Turnbull’s political trajectory hasn’t always been smooth. In the first week of his attempt to take on the sitting member at the 2004 election, he seemed to be in a…
Essays & reportage
17 September 2015
Twenty years after he left, Kerry Ryan returned to Darwin. Some things had changed, some things had stayed the same
Essays & reportage
9 September 2015
Under pressure from popular opinion, politicians’ children and outspoken backbenchers, the government has announced an extra 12,000 places for refugees from Syria. This…