Inside Story

Essays & reportage Unlawful deliveries Peter Mares 26 June 2014 Babies born in detention are taking the federal government to court. Meanwhile, being locked up is making their parents dangerously ill, writes Peter Mares Essays & reportage How Thomas Piketty found a mass audience, and what it means for public policy John Quiggin 30 May 2014 Thomas Piketty’s phenomenally successful Capital confirms that Western countries are becoming less equal. John Quiggin looks at how he fits into a… Essays & reportage Unravelling “Australia’s own McCarthy era” Jack Waterford 30 May 2014 For years the Labor Party clung to the belief that the defection of Vladimir Petrov was orchestrated by the Menzies government to influence the 1954 election. But what really… Essays & reportage This narrated life Maria Tumarkin 21 May 2014 Storytelling may fit the zeitgeist, but there are truths it can’t reach, writes Maria Tumarkin

Essays & reportage Eleven grams of trouble Frank Bowden 18 March 2014 Screening for cervical cancer saves lives every day, so surely men should be screened for prostate cancer? Unfortunately it’s a bit more complicated than that, writes… Essays & reportage “Every law not based on wisdom is a menace to the state” Peter Mares 11 March 2014 The number of people imprisoned in the United States has fallen every year for the past three years, yet the land of the free still has a far higher incarceration rate than any… Essays & reportage The public interest in public broadcasting Geoff Heriot 6 March 2014 The accountability of the ABC and SBS should be a two-way street, writes Geoff Heriot. A pattern of erratic government scrutiny fails the public-interest test Essays & reportage A view of pale hills Peter Mares 25 February 2014 It’s five years since Canberra’s innovative Alexander Maconochie Centre admitted its first group of prisoners. Peter Mares visited to see if the facility is…

Essays & reportage History, heritage and the ageing dictator R.J.B. Bosworth 31 October 2013 Uzbekistan is still writing and rewriting its own history, reports a recently returned R.J.B. Bosworth Essays & reportage Loving Europe Susan Carson 23 October 2013 Charmian Clift’s Peel Me a Lotus has inspired Australian women travel writers for over half a century, but the result has been a quite different kind of writing,… Essays & reportage Race in the dock Kieran Finnane 14 October 2013 A murder trial in Alice Springs held up a mirror to the town’s dealings with issues of race, writes Kieran Finnane, and the inter-racial dynamics turned out to be… Essays & reportage How Big Tobacco’s divide-and-conquer strategy exposed the EU’s flaws James Panichi 14 October 2013 Unlike Australia, the European Union buckled on plain packaging in the face of fierce lobbying, writes James Panichi. Still not satisfied, the tobacco industry sought to…