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Essays & reportage Iraq 2003: what the leaders say, and what they leave out Hans Blix 23 March 2011 The former UN weapons inspector casts a critical eye over the political memoirs of Tony Blair, John Howard and George W. Bush Essays & reportage “Big problems” in Alice Springs Kieran Finnane 25 February 2011 Concern about crime in Alice Springs came to a head at a public meeting this week. Kieran Finnane reports on a debate that took some unexpected turns Essays & reportage The man who would be premier Brett Evans 16 February 2011 Barry O’Farrell reached the NSW Liberal leadership by an unconventional route, writes Brett Evans Essays & reportage Lillian and Germaine in New York Robert Milliken 20 January 2011 Robert Milliken recounts the fraught relationship between two Australian women who made enormous contributions to the international literature of the counterculture

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 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 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 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