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Essays & reportage 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 Margo Saunders 9 November 2012 Twenty-five years on, we’re still asking the same question, writes Margo Saunders Essays & reportage 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Frank Bongiorno 7 June 2012 Frank Bongiorno traces the debate about blackness from Arthur Upfield to Andrew Bolt Essays & reportage 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 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 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 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 Margaret à Beckett 11 April 2012 A radical new explanation of how gender works in French Essays & reportage 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 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 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 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 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 Sylvia Lawson 16 February 2012 Extract | Visiting Alice Springs opens up other journeys captured on film and in prose and poetry Essays & reportage 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 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 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 Jane Goodall 9 January 2012 Václav Havel, who died in December, was Orwell’s true successor, writes Jane Goodall Essays & reportage Graeme Dobell 16 December 2011 Graeme Dobell looks at humanitarian intervention in theory and practice Essays & reportage 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 Elisabeth Wynhausen 2 December 2011 The government has created a giant job-search industry caught between competition and over-regulation, writes Elisabeth Wynhausen