Essays & reportage
6 December 2023
Australia’s fatal firestorms have a distinctive and mainly Victorian lineage, but the 2019–20 season was frighteningly new
Essays & reportage
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
Essays & reportage
24 November 2023
What guidance for the challenges facing the planet can we find in the words of one of Australia’s greatest prime ministers?
Essays & reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Essays & reportage
1 November 2023
The federal government’s plans are receiving cautious support in unexpected quarters
Essays & reportage
20 October 2023
When the history of electric vehicles is written, who will be seen as central?
Essays & reportage
12 October 2023
“You don’t even look Nyoongar,” they told the author as a schoolgirl. “Are you sure you’re Aboriginal?”
Essays & reportage
11 October 2023
Her novels paradoxically activate readers’ critical faculties while compelling us to trust the narrative voice
Essays & reportage
10 October 2023
Regardless of the outcome of the Voice referendum, Australia’s past will continue to unsettle the present
Essays & reportage
10 October 2023
This year’s winner is another challenge to critics of the youngest of the prizes
Essays & reportage
6 October 2023
The Voice debate has opened up the complexity of First Nations political thought
Essays & reportage
5 October 2023
While the French president risks a new civil war just three hours’ flight from Australia, Canberra’s diplomacy remains muted
Essays & reportage
4 October 2023
With a new album just released and seventy years of playing under his belt, jazz pianist Mike Nock continues to perform, compose and mentor
Essays & reportage
29 September 2023
A chance find in a Melbourne collectibles shop transports the author back to 1988’s “celebration of a nation”
Essays & reportage
29 September 2023
It’s time for the Constitution to recognise the benefits of empowering Indigenous communities
Essays & reportage
17 September 2023
Sent to Australia as an “enemy alien” by Churchill’s government, Bern Brent spent decades challenging conventional accounts of the internees’ lives
Essays & reportage
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
Essays & reportage
4 September 2023
With monuments to Alexander Pushkin being removed all over Ukraine, the arrival of a bust of the poet in Canberra gains extra resonance
Essays & reportage
28 August 2023
Despite a series of obstacles, post-Soviet Ukraine has been moving in the right direction
Essays & reportage
16 August 2023
A string of scandals and cost-blowouts in social services look a lot like symptoms of a deeper problem
Essays & reportage
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
Essays & reportage
2 August 2023
Designed for grandparents wanting to spend time with family in Australia, this new long-stay visa has proved surprisingly unpopular
Essays & reportage
25 July 2023
How Newspoll reports public opinion and how the Australian reports Newspoll
Essays & reportage
19 July 2023
A long-forgotten experiment throws light on the challenges facing Australian education in the 2020s
Essays & reportage
22 June 2023
Why money won’t fix Australia’s broken social services model
Essays & reportage
20 June 2023
Depending on the choices pollsters offer, the undecideds range all the way from none to two-thirds of respondents
Essays & reportage
16 June 2023
Thirty-five years and five judgements after Scott Johnson’s body was found, can we be sure justice has been served?
Essays & reportage
13 June 2023
How closely was Barry Humphries’s least domineering character based on ex–second world war servicemen?
Essays & reportage
29 May 2023
How William Cooper became “the man who stood up to Hitler”
Essays & reportage
24 May 2023
Inside Story editor Peter Browne introduces a memoir of Australia’s fifties by contributor Robert Milliken, who died last Sunday