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Essays & reportage Adam Nicol 15 August 2014 W.E. Johns’s failure to adapt to the postwar era left Biggles a shadow of his wartime self, writes Adam Nicol
Essays & reportage Sara Dowse 14 August 2014 We not only need more women in positions of power, we also need to examine again what that power is about, argues Sara Dowse in her 2014 Emily’s List Oration Essays & reportage Alan Fewster 1 August 2014 Newly released documents reveal the intelligence community in the early 1970s through the eyes of a former senior bureaucrat, writes Alan Fewster Essays & reportage Virginia Lloyd 25 July 2014 Skype has shaped a professional and personal life across two continents, reports Virginia Lloyd Essays & reportage Klaus Neumann 24 July 2014 Germany and its football team have evolved in tandem over the past six-and-a-half decades. Klaus Neumann traces the story from the 1954 “Miracle of Bern” to…
National affairs Graham Willett 15 July 2014 In its coverage of gay law reform over the past fifty years, the Australian has charted a course from pacesetter to curmudgeon, writes Graham Willett in this…
Essays & reportage Eleanor Hogan 11 July 2014 Tennant Creek has developed innovative ways of dealing with the strengths and weaknesses of social media, writes Eleanor Hogan. But the initiatives are languishing,… Essays & reportage Peter Browne 6 July 2014 By the time the first edition of the Australian hit the streets, a vital part of Rupert Murdoch’s strategy had gone awry Essays & reportage Anna Johnston 27 June 2014 Blending journalism, romance and travelogue, The Great Australian Loneliness crossed a different set of borders during the second world war Essays & reportage 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 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 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 Maria Tumarkin 21 May 2014 Storytelling may fit the zeitgeist, but there are truths it can’t reach, writes Maria Tumarkin Essays & reportage Brett Evans 30 April 2014 Inside Story catches up with federal parliament’s fledgling independent MP Essays & reportage Tess Lea 26 April 2014 In this extract from her new book, Tess Lea takes an aerial view of the future of the Northern Territory capital
Essays & reportage Mike Steketee & Milton Cockburn 22 April 2014 In this extract from Mike Steketee and Milton Cockburn’s biography, first published in 1986, Neville Wran – who died earlier this week –…
Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 18 April 2014 A new study finds social status rippling across the centuries Essays & reportage eBook 17 April 2014 This eBook features Tim Senior’s recently announced prize-winning entry in the Gavin Mooney Essay Prize for 2013, together with the four runners-up Essays & reportage Tom Bamforth 26 March 2014 In 2007, Tom Bamforth left post-earthquake Pakistan for a different crisis, the war in Darfur. As he describes in his new book, a whole culture was being lost through… Essays & reportage 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Frank Bongiorno 16 December 2013 The cyclones of the late 1960s and early 1970s didn’t shape the Whitlam government as much as gentler breezes of the 1950s and early 1960s Essays & reportage Shipra Chordia & Andrew Lynch 4 December 2013 Armed with an ambitious political and legal agenda, the new attorney-general faces a testing time, write Shipra Chordia and Andrew Lynch Essays & reportage Dean Ashenden 19 November 2013 Technology is going to drive the first revolution in schooling since the invention of the printing press, says Dean Ashenden. But it’s not just a matter of the machinery Essays & reportage R.J.B. Bosworth 31 October 2013 Uzbekistan is still writing and rewriting its own history, reports a recently returned R.J.B. Bosworth