Inside Story

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 Essays & reportage Two suburbs, 167 lives: how the Life Chances study turned twenty-one Melissa Sweet 8 October 2012 In 1990 a team of researchers began tracking a group of babies born in two inner suburbs of Melbourne. Their latest results paint a complex picture of obstacles, opportunities and… Essays & reportage Across the African divide Ralph Johnstone 12 September 2012 Ralph Johnstone meets the people at the sharp end of the complex challenges facing young refugees from Africa Essays & reportage Written back into history Larry Schwartz 12 September 2012 Nearly fifty years after her family left Cape Town’s apartheid-era District Six, Bonita Bennett is helping rescue the stories of its former residents, writes Larry Schwartz

Essays & reportage Getting under their skin Frank Bongiorno 7 June 2012 Frank Bongiorno traces the debate about blackness from Arthur Upfield to Andrew Bolt Essays & reportage Overtested, overtreated and over here Melissa Sweet 4 June 2012 The principles behind an American campaign to reduce unnecessary and often expensive medical interventions are gaining support in Australia, writes Melissa Sweet Essays & reportage Looking for an island circuit-breaker Natasha Cica 24 May 2012 Although the forestry agreement is looking shaky, innovative projects are flourishing in Tasmania, writes Natasha Cica. Strategic assistance could speed the move to a… Essays & reportage Citizenship for beginners Kerry Ryan 16 April 2012 The Howard government made it harder for some nationalities to become citizens, and Labor has made it worse, writes Kerry Ryan

Essays & reportage A world of our own making Brett Evans 17 February 2012 Without realising it, we seem to have entered a new geological epoch. Brett Evans looks at how we got there and what it means Essays & reportage Along the pot-holed track Sylvia Lawson 16 February 2012 Extract | Visiting Alice Springs opens up other journeys captured on film and in prose and poetry Essays & reportage Sarawak’s roads to development Christine Horn 3 February 2012 Logging has changed remote Sarawak in many ways, but the aftermath can produce a new kind of isolation, writes Christine Horn Essays & reportage “Preserved for the people for all time” Cameron Muir 2 February 2012 Is “balanced” development really the best way to manage our inland rivers? Cameron Muir looks at the language that could save or condemn them