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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 Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 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 Brett Evans 13 October 2015 Robotics meets fish farming in an innovative new technique being developed by Australian scientist Neil Sims, writes Brett Evans Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 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 Brett Evans 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 Kerry Ryan 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 Peter Mares 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… Essays & reportage Brian McFarlane 21 August 2015 Twenty great British films? Brian McFarlane explains how he chose them, and looks at one old and one new Essays & reportage Gillian Cowlishaw 19 August 2015 Anthropologists might have been implicated in colonial policies and practices, writes Gillian Cowlishaw, but for many decades theirs was the only scholarly discipline…
Essays & reportage Stuart Macintyre 12 August 2015 Extract | Seventy years ago this week, prime minister Ben Chifley announced that the war in the Pacific was over. Planning for peace was already well under way, writes…
Essays & reportage Robin Derricourt 10 August 2015 In the face of expert opposition, scientist Grafton Elliot Smith promoted the theory that ancient Egypt was the source of almost every major innovation. It was a campaign that… Essays & reportage Tom Griffiths 24 July 2015 Tom Griffiths welcomes a profound exploration of intergenerational memory Essays & reportage Brett Evans 16 July 2015 As the Threatened Species Summit opens in Melbourne, Brett Evans profiles a scientist film-maker who says “rewilding” is the best way to battle the invasive… Essays & reportage Dean Ashenden 24 June 2015 Dean Ashenden takes on the sixties, GERM, and the world’s best-known educational revolutionary
Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 12 June 2015 The low-key public debate over the arrival of European refugees in the late 1930s contrasts dramatically with the outcry when Jewish Holocaust survivors arrived nearly a decade…
Essays & reportage Jon Altman 2 June 2015 Jon Altman has been visiting the remote Aboriginal community of Maningrida for many years. In February, he talked to Kuninjku people about the impact of… Essays & reportage Graeme Orr 1 June 2015 The electoral cycle is made up of rituals, both elaborate and everyday. Understand them and we will better understand democracy itself, writes Graeme Orr in his new book Essays & reportage Alan Fewster 25 May 2015 ASIO’s ambivalence about Manning Clark might not have incited a diplomatic training incident, writes Alan Fewster. But Clark’s response, thinly veiled as… Essays & reportage Amirah Inglis 5 May 2015 This extract from her award-winning memoir opens as Amirah Inglis and her mother arrive in Melbourne from Europe in 1929
Essays & reportage Sara Dowse 4 May 2015 Sara Dowse remembers the writer Amirah Inglis, who died on Saturday
Essays & reportage Ken Inglis 24 April 2015 In April 1965 Ken Inglis travelled to Gallipoli with 300 Anzac pilgrims and filed seven reports along the way for the Canberra Times. Here he introduces two of those despatches Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 20 April 2015 Greece wants war reparations and loan repayments from Germany, writes Klaus Neumann. The idea isn’t as far-fetched as it might sound Essays & reportage John Edwards 14 April 2015 Fixing the federal budget might not be as hard as we think, argues John Edwards. And the Intergenerational Review shows we have the breathing space to choose how to do it Essays & reportage Ramon Lobato & Julian Thomas 10 April 2015 Once studio executives start citing illegal downloads as a measure of success, it’s clear the relationship between legal and illegal has changed, write Ramon Lobato…