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Essays & reportage Forgotten war Henry Reynolds 25 July 2013 The looming centenary of the landing at Gallipoli is a reminder of unfinished business between settler and Indigenous Australia after a decade of incomplete reconciliation Essays & reportage Cracking the dress code Jane Goodall 5 July 2013 Germaine Greer’s advice to Julia Gillard to “get rid of those bloody jackets!” created a furore. But perhaps she was onto something Essays & reportage What do Australians think about equality? Andrew Leigh 4 July 2013 Disagreements about acceptable levels of inequality often rest on a misunderstanding of the existing distribution of income and wealth, writes Andrew Leigh Essays & reportage The Grattan line Dean Ashenden 2 July 2013 The Grattan Institute has much of importance to contribute to the education debate, writes Dean Ashenden. Its hits and misses reveal a lot about Australian schooling, and…

Essays & reportage Haunted by Demons Tom Griffiths 3 April 2013 What would success taste like, wonders a Melbourne AFL supporter Essays & reportage Germ warfare opens a new front Melissa Sweet 1 March 2013 Overuse of antibiotics is not only creating resistant bacteria but also changing the ecology of the human body, writes Melissa Sweet  Essays & reportage Executive fortunes Raewyn Connell 21 February 2013 We need to drop the idea that executive pay is some kind of “wage” that can be explained as an exchange on a labour market, writes Raewyn Connell Essays & reportage Evolutionary tinkering in revolutionary times Dean Ashenden 15 February 2013 The current system of teacher education isn’t working for many students. Dean Ashenden looks at the alternatives, and their adversaries

Essays & reportage The disturbing logic of “Stay or Go” Tom Griffiths 22 November 2012 The experts driving Australia’s bushfire policies won’t acknowledge that different forests produce different fires Essays & reportage Decline and fall? Dean Ashenden 22 November 2012 Twenty-five years ago, John Dawkins dramatically reshaped higher education. His critics still fail to distinguish the good from the bad in his reforms, writes Dean Ashenden Essays & reportage Canberra: what sort of city? Margo Saunders 9 November 2012 Twenty-five years on, we’re still asking the same question, writes Margo Saunders Essays & reportage Trade block Jock Given 18 October 2012 With global trade negotiations stalled, Australia is attempting to navigate between the competing demands of two giants, writes Jock Given