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Essays & reportage
Climate’s quiet achiever
Akshat Rathi
20 October 2023
When the history of electric vehicles is written, who will be seen as central?
Essays & reportage
Two worlds
Louise K. Hansen
12 October 2023
“You don’t even look Nyoongar,” they told the author as a schoolgirl. “Are you sure you’re Aboriginal?”
Essays & reportage
The voice of Alexis Wright
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
11 October 2023
Her novels paradoxically activate readers’ critical faculties while compelling us to trust the narrative voice
Essays & reportage
Yes or No, history won’t go away
Peter Mares
10 October 2023
Regardless of the outcome of the Voice referendum, Australia’s past will continue to unsettle the present
Essays & reportage
What the Nobel Prize tells us about economics
David Walker
10 October 2023
This year’s winner is another challenge to critics of the youngest of the prizes
Essays & reportage
A steady path to sovereignty?
Tim Rowse
6 October 2023
The Voice debate has opened up the complexity of First Nations political thought
Essays & reportage
France’s stubborn grip
Hamish McDonald
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
Blessed life
John Edwards
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
You’re not going to buy it are you?
Anne-Marie Condé
29 September 2023
A chance find in a Melbourne collectibles shop transports the author back to 1988’s “celebration of a nation”
Essays & reportage
Self-determination works. The next step is the Voice
Laura Rademaker and Ian Anderson
29 September 2023
It’s time for the Constitution to recognise the benefits of empowering Indigenous communities
Essays & reportage
A Dunera life
Seumas Spark
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
Odyssey down under
Tom Griffiths
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
Weaponising Pushkin
Kyle Wilson
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
Ukraine’s struggle for democracy
Mark Edele
28 August 2023
Despite a series of obstacles, post-Soviet Ukraine has been moving in the right direction
Essays & reportage
“You need to run it as a public service because that is what it is”
Mike Steketee
16 August 2023
A string of scandals and cost-blowouts in social services look a lot like symptoms of a deeper problem
Essays & reportage
The making of a prime minister
Frank Bongiorno
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
Essays & reportage
The visa that missed its mark
Peter Mares
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
The “end” of Labor’s honeymoon and the “collapse” of women’s support for the Voice
Murray Goot
25 July 2023
How Newspoll reports public opinion and how the
Australian
reports Newspoll
Essays & reportage
What is a university?
Tamson Pietsch
19 July 2023
A long-forgotten experiment throws light on the challenges facing Australian education in the 2020s
Essays & reportage
Choice versus voice
Mark Considine
22 June 2023
Why money won’t fix Australia’s broken social services model
Essays & reportage
“Undecided” on the Voice
Murray Goot
20 June 2023
Depending on the choices pollsters offer, the undecideds range all the way from none to two-thirds of respondents
Essays & reportage
Scott’s justice
Jeremy Gans
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
What did you do in the war, Sandy?
Anne-Marie Condé
13 June 2023
How closely was Barry Humphries’s least domineering character based on ex–second world war servicemen?
Essays & reportage
The evolution of a myth
Bain Attwood
29 May 2023
How William Cooper became “the man who stood up to Hitler”
Essays & reportage
Boomer time
Robert Milliken
24 May 2023
Inside Story
editor Peter Browne introduces a memoir of Australia’s fifties by contributor Robert Milliken, who died last Sunday
Essays & reportage
New media’s idiosyncratic survivor
Margaret Simons
18 May 2023
Crikey
emerges from its dispute with Lachlan Murdoch with a familiar figure at the helm
Essays & reportage
From Indigenous recognition to the Voice, and back again
Murray Goot
15 May 2023
There are signs of a shift in strategy by the Yes forces, but are the polls keeping up?
Essays & reportage
’King oath
Graeme Orr
8 May 2023
Eight months a king, Charles finally took the coronation oath. Did the wait matter?
Essays & reportage
An industry awakens
Tina Kaufman
24 April 2023
A busy industry was waiting impatiently for the revival of Australian feature film-making in the early 1970s
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Rock, water, paper
Anne-Marie Condé
24 April 2023
Newly opened and unexpectedly vulnerable, the Australian War Memorial faced its first onslaught in January 1936
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