Inside Story

Essays & reportage Decline and fall? Dean Ashenden 22 November 2012 Twenty-five years ago, John Dawkins dramatically reshaped higher education. His critics still fail to distinguish the good from the bad in his reforms, writes Dean Ashenden Essays & reportage Canberra: what sort of city? Margo Saunders 9 November 2012 Twenty-five years on, we’re still asking the same question, writes Margo Saunders 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 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 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 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 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