Inside Story

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 A sense of possibility in Alice Springs Eleanor Hogan 15 August 2012 After six months of living in Alice Springs, Eleanor Hogan’s employer folded and she was offered an all-expenses-paid relocation back to Sydney. But she was in no…

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 Life; London; this moment of June Jill Kitson 13 April 2012 Although she undoubtedly drew on her own life, Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels are not essays about herself

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 Essays & reportage The British ensign Henry Reynolds 24 January 2012 Australia’s attachment to a flag with the Union Jack in the top corner puts it in odd company