Inside Story

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 Six days on Nauru Michael Gordon 14 August 2012 Michael Gordon, the first journalist to gain unrestricted access to Nauru when it was part of the Howard government’s Pacific Solution, recalls his visit in early 2005 Essays & reportage Labor’s next generation Dennis Altman 9 August 2012 Reports of Labor’s death have been grossly exaggerated, writes Dennis Altman

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 French gender: It’s not (all) about sex Margaret à Beckett 11 April 2012 A radical new explanation of how gender works in French Essays & reportage Medicare goes local in search of “disruptive innovation” Melissa Sweet 4 April 2012 Can local networks pull off the healthcare reforms that have eluded state and national governments, asks Melissa Sweet

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 Essays & reportage Havel’s legacy Jane Goodall 9 January 2012 Václav Havel, who died in December, was Orwell’s true successor, writes Jane Goodall Essays & reportage At the pointy end of the bayonet conundrum Graeme Dobell 16 December 2011 Graeme Dobell looks at humanitarian intervention in theory and practice