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Essays & reportage Everything was Friede Freude Eierkuchen Klaus Neumann 14 October 2010 Prompted by the twentieth anniversary of German reunification in October 1990, Klaus Neumann dusts off an article he wrote in 1991 Essays & reportage A death in the rain Peter Mares 24 September 2010 FROM THE ARCHIVE | This week Fijian fruit-picker Josefa Rauluni died in the Villawood detention centre. Peter Mares describes a similar case nearly ten years ago, and how… Essays & reportage Talking about our population Peter Mares 1 September 2010 The election campaign showed how we don’t seem able to have a rational debate about population, writes Peter Mares Essays & reportage Remembering refugees Klaus Neumann 20 August 2010 The parties are making promises like there’s no tomorrow and policy like there’s no yesterday, writes Klaus Neumann

Essays & reportage The biographer and the biographee Jock Given 23 June 2010 The prime minister was angry. So what did he say? asks Jock Given Essays & reportage Nine-tenths of the law Rodney Tiffen 3 June 2010 Sydney’s media moguls took off the gloves on a winter’s night in 1960 – and the Packers lost Essays & reportage Listening to profits Nicholas Z. Rosenlicht 12 May 2010 As the disturbing growth in treatment of children for bipolar disorder shows, psychiatry’s overreliance on drugs – and especially newer, less effective and less… Essays & reportage My mother’s story Maria Tumarkin 7 May 2010 In this extract from her new book, Maria Tumarkin recounts the events that unfolded after news of war reached the Ukrainian village of Dubovyazovka

Essays & reportage Swine flu, vaccination and other matters of trust Melissa Sweet 3 February 2010 Amid renewed calls for mass vaccinations in Australia, Melissa Sweet looks at the latest chapter in the international debate about swine flu and its implications for… Essays & reportage The myth of CPR Ken Hillman 21 January 2010 How did such a poorly proven intervention become a routine end to many people’s lives, asks Ken Hillman in this extract from his new book Essays & reportage Big promises from Big Pharma Qudsiya Karrim 9 January 2010 GlaxoSmithKline created waves last year with a promise of cheaper drugs and patent waivers in developing countries. In this special report Qudsiya Karrim in Johannesburg… Essays & reportage Divine wind Richard Evans 20 December 2009 It wasn’t until Tracy struck, thirty-five years ago, that Darwin’s cyclone problem really sank in, writes Richard Evans