Inside Story

Essays & reportage Trouble in the city Peter Spearritt 22 October 2009 If you want to find out what’s happening in Australia’s cities today, don’t go to the glossy planning documents, writes Peter Spearritt Essays & reportage Fool’s gold Richard Evans 19 October 2009 Australia’s disastrous showing at the Montreal Olympics ushered in a grim – and very expensive – culture of “excellence,” argues Richard Evans Essays & reportage Going Dutch? Let’s talk about it, at least Melissa Sweet 21 September 2009 The Medicare Select proposal has opened up a new front in the health debate. Melissa Sweet talks to supporters and sceptics Essays & reportage Show day Ellie Rennie 20 August 2009 Angela Pamela and her political prizewinners took the Alice Springs show by storm, reports Ellie Rennie

Essays & reportage Battle over a war Dean Ashenden 2 June 2009 For three decades the Australian War Memorial has been the focus of a struggle between two ways of knowing the past, writes Dean Ashenden Essays & reportage Troubled waters Robert Milliken 25 May 2009 Queensland is in flood, but none of the water is likely to make the long journey down the Darling and the Murray to South Australia, reports Robert Milliken in Murray Bridge Essays & reportage South of the Goyder Charles Gent 16 May 2009 The southward movement of Goyder’s Line, which marks off arable land in South Australia, is creating unease among winemakers, writes Charles Gent Essays & reportage Australia, Hungary and the case of Károly Zentai Ruth Balint 29 April 2009 The Zentai extradition case reveals much about the postwar history of two very different countries, writes Ruth Balint

Essays & reportage After the exodus Bruce Grant 29 January 2009 The latest release of cabinet papers is a reminder of the political stresses triggered by the arrival of Indochinese boat people in the mid 1970s. Bruce Grant, author of… Essays & reportage Obama’s soliloquy Klaus Neumann 19 January 2009 The author of Dreams from my Father has the character, intellect and instincts for the job, writes Klaus Neumann Essays & reportage The shattered silence Sylvia Lawson 6 January 2009 We are constantly delivered a double miracle: Aboriginal survival, and the Aboriginal will to forgive us all and share it, writes Sylvia Lawson Essays & reportage Luhrmann, us, and them Dean Ashenden 18 December 2008 Two films made sixty years apart are a reminder of how hard it is to tell the story of Australia, writes Dean Ashenden