Inside Story

Essays & reportage Yes, women can have it all… on one condition Helen Hayward 12 July 2012 … You might need to be a university professor. Helen Hayward looks at what Anne-Marie Slaughter said in her essay for the Atlantic, and how it was received Essays & reportage William Chidley’s answer to the sex problem Frank Bongiorno 4 July 2012 Born to a free-thinking family in Melbourne around 1860, William Chidley became an energetic campaigner with some surprisingly respectable supporters, writes Frank … Essays & reportage Good at gardening, hopeless at engineering Dean Ashenden 13 June 2012 Restless innovation saved Australian schools from their structural problems, writes Dean Ashenden. But now the strains are well and truly showing 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 Eleven media myths, and why they matter Sally Young 3 April 2012 Self-interest underlies much of the debate about the Australian news media, writes Sally Young, and it’s threatening the future of quality journalism Essays & reportage “Sitting on a tractor, reading a book” Bill Gammage & Ken Inglis 28 February 2012 Ken Inglis and Bill Gammage pay tribute to the distinguished historian, and occasional Inside Story contributor, Hank Nelson, who died earlier this month Essays & reportage Thus began the Australian occupation of Antarctica… Tom Griffiths 24 February 2012 On board the Aurora Australis as it sailed to Commonwealth Bay to commemorate the centenary of Douglas Mawson’s historic expedition, our correspondent witnesses a… 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 The everyday politics of perpetual electioneering James Panichi 8 December 2011 Must Australian politicians work “tirelessly” for their communities or face electoral oblivion? James Panichi looks for the middle ground Essays & reportage Is killing Taliban a good idea? Ali Wardak and John Braithwaite 7 December 2011 Intensified military activity has failed, argue John Braithwaite and Ali Wardak. It’s time for a ceasefire Essays & reportage Unemployed and wrapped in red tape Elisabeth Wynhausen 2 December 2011 The government has created a giant job-search industry caught between competition and over-regulation, writes Elisabeth Wynhausen Essays & reportage “It’s like when a patriarch dies, and the will is read, and everyone starts squabbling” Melissa Sweet 29 November 2011 Mental health had a big win in this year’s budget – and that’s when the fights began, writes Melissa Sweet in this joint investigation with Crikey