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Essays & reportage Behind the collapse of Pompeii’s “House of the Gladiators” Frank Sear 18 November 2010 Despite the best efforts of its overseers, two and a half centuries of excavation have left Pompeii vulnerable to weather and human activity, writes Frank Sear Essays & reportage Up to my elbows in the grey zone Maria Tumarkin 10 November 2010 Book contract in her bag, Maria Tumarkin set out for Russia and Ukraine. All was well until people started asking questions Essays & reportage “It’s much more fun in general practice. I can play in any field; I don’t regret it one bit.” Melissa Sweet 26 October 2010 Talk about health policy reform often loses sight of the people in the system and their stories. Melissa Sweet watches two GPs in action in the south-west Sydney suburb… Essays & reportage Financing the forests Stephen Minas 20 October 2010 Indonesia is at the sharp end of the debate about how to bring forests into a carbon trading system, writes Stephen Minas

Essays & reportage The rising tide of border security Peter Chambers 28 July 2010 Border security has complex effects, many of them unanticipated, some of them pernicious and potentially destabilising, and some of them irreversible, writes Peter Chambers Essays & reportage Drug companies take a dip Xan Rice 14 July 2010 When GlaxoSmithKline announced a series of initiatives to improve access to drugs in least-developed countries, its most radical proposal was for a “patent pool” to… Essays & reportage Two-up, one down Gillian Cowlishaw 7 July 2010 The law seemed to fail Boonie Hilt, a thirty-six year old Aboriginal man, but there were small victories along the way Essays & reportage Shoulder-deep in the entrails Shane Maloney 28 June 2010 “I pull out my notebook, merge into a cluster of pundits and sidle through.” Novelist Shane Maloney was in Parliament House as Kevin Rudd’s time ran out

Essays & reportage Euclidean economics Kelvin Rowley 16 March 2010 Kelvin Rowley profiles the leading figure in postwar economics, Paul Samuelson Essays & reportage Reading aloud Ian McShane 3 March 2010 Should the loud and proud rhetoric of public libraries be reconsidered, asks Ian McShane Essays & reportage Australia–India: reimagining the relationship Robin Jeffrey 15 February 2010 First, let’s fix the education problems. Then let’s recognise the missing link in Australia–India relations, writes Robin Jeffrey Essays & reportage The hole in their bucket Julian Thomas and Ramon Lobato 11 February 2010 Media companies’ campaign against internet piracy suffered a major setback last week when a federal court judgement let internet service providers off the hook for their…