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Essays & reportage Death by a thousand cuts James Panichi 25 March 2011 Despite the recommendations of an expert panel, changes to federal environmental legislation have stalled, writes James Panichi 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 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 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 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