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“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
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
When Marconi’s magic came to Queenscliff…
Jock Given
12 August 2010
The Coalition thinks wireless is the answer for Australian broadband.
Jock Given
remembers an earlier moment when wires-without-wires had their day.
Essays & reportage
Safe Labor? On the ground, Denison isn’t so straightforward
Natasha Cica
5 August 2010
This Tasmanian seat might hold a surprise for Labor and the Coalition, wrote
Natasha Cica
during the campaign
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
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
What it means to be a real journalist
Maria Tumarkin
28 April 2010
One reviewer accuses the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya of being hot-headed. Why has this become a pejorative term, asks
Maria Tumarkin
Essays & reportage
Re-entering chartered waters?
Brian Costar & Jennifer Curtin
22 March 2010
In Tasmania, Greens leader Nick McKim is pushing for Labor or the Liberals to strike a written agreement with his party in return for its support.
Brian Costar
and…
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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…
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
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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
Essays & reportage
The Howard impact
Rodney Tiffen & Ross Gittins
10 December 2009
Some good, some bad: the Howard government’s economic record compared with the performance of other Western countries
Essays & reportage
A miracle of politics and science
Tom Griffiths
4 December 2009
As the world talks about climate change, the Antarctic Treaty shows how politics and science can work together with enduring results, writes
Tom Griffiths
Essays & reportage
Australia’s expanding borders
Savitri Taylor
2 December 2009
Our border cooperation with regional neighbours has entered questionable territory, writes
Savitri Taylor
Essays & reportage
HIV/AIDS: the global outlook
Dennis Altman
26 November 2009
For World AIDS Day 2009,
Dennis Altman
surveys the key international issues in prevention and treatment
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