Inside Story

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 Climate change and equity: whose language is it anyway? Tim Senior 24 February 2014 In his winning entry for the Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition, Sydney GP Tim Senior argues that language, and different ways of knowing, have been getting in the… Essays & reportage Labor’s Green opportunity Dennis Altman 13 February 2014 Labor’s combative relationship with the Greens reflects its failure to develop a genuine counter-narrative to the Coalition worldview, argues Dennis Altman Essays & reportage Cold war, soft diplomacy Alan Fewster 14 January 2014 As the Cold War intensified in the mid fifties, Australia saw a special role for itself in disseminating information and propaganda in Southeast Asia, writes Alan Fewster

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… Essays & reportage My cold war: from Brunswick to Berlin (via the Labor split) Geoffrey Barker 27 September 2013 Within months of the end of the second world war, an iron curtain had fallen across Europe. Its impact reached into the inner suburbs of Melbourne, writes Geoffrey Barker Essays & reportage “Fearless in public service. In sincerity unexcelled” Jackie Dickenson 26 September 2013 Indi’s new local member Cathy McGowan fits into a long tradition of independently minded country MPs. In this extract from her new book, Jackie Dickenson traces the… Essays & reportage Turning values into (direct) action Simon Copland 24 September 2013 Has the environment movement failed to frame the climate debate effectively?

Essays & reportage The war the bloggers won Greg Jericho 23 August 2013 Political bloggers brought a new rigour to interpreting the polls Essays & reportage Rudd 1987 or Abbott 1996? Stephen Mills 20 August 2013 Has Labor’s campaign taken a fatal turn? History shows that divided control of campaign messages can be a disaster, writes Stephen Mills Essays & reportage Is Common Ground a commonsense response to homelessness? Peter Mares 30 July 2013 In his first stint as prime minister, Kevin Rudd set a target of halving homelessness by 2020. If he is still committed to that goal, then the Common Ground approach might chart a… Essays & reportage Gay rights and the glass ceiling Dennis Altman 29 July 2013 How much has changed over the past four decades, asks Dennis Altman in this extract from his new book, The End of the Homosexual?