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Essays & reportage Border control: the complexities of life along one of Europe’s hottest cultural fault-lines James Panichi 18 December 2012 In Brussels, it can seem like language is no barrier. But Belgium as a whole is divided and uncertain, writes James Panichi Essays & reportage Can we afford to get back on the rails? Peter Mares 12 December 2012 Australia’s largest cities still rely heavily on massive investments in rail before the second world war. With renewed interest in rail as a way of dealing with congestion,… Essays & reportage From a drowning to a celebration Dennis Altman 11 December 2012 In this edited version of a recent Dunstan Foundation lecture, Dennis Altman looks at forty years of gay liberation and the work still to be done Essays & reportage The year in truth Jock Given 6 December 2012 Jock Given looks back on 2012, the year the reality gap seemed to widen

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 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 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