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Running for her life
Fiona Gruber
16 December 2022
Journalist Jill Jolliffe’s work took her around the world, but her commitment to East Timorese independence endured
Essays & reportage
No idea what it’s talking about
Julian Vido
16 December 2022
ChatGPT produces plausible answers supremely well. And that’s both its strength and its weakness
Essays & reportage
Timor gaps
Hamish McDonald
8 December 2022
Labor’s decision to drop the prosecution of Bernard Collaery leaves key questions unresolved
Essays & reportage
Science and uncertainty: China’s Covid dilemma
John Fitzgerald
6 December 2022
Behind the hardline policy is a quest for perfection that dates back to the Communist Party’s founding
Essays & reportage
Before it was time
Paul Rodan
2 December 2022
A young Western Australian catches a glimpse of Gough in 1969
Essays & reportage
A party for the people
David Solomon & Laurie Oakes
2 December 2022
Beer and scuffles open
The Making of an Australian Prime Minister
, the classic account of the 1972 election
Essays & reportage
“God save us all!”
Patrick Mullins
2 December 2022
Doomed to defeat in 1972, did prime minister William McMahon show more initiative than he’s given credit for?
Essays & reportage
Twelve vexed Canberrans
Jeremy Gans
21 November 2022
What did we learn about juries from the abrupt conclusion to last month’s trial of a ministerial staffer?
Essays & reportage
Confessions of an econocrat-watcher
Ross Gittins
15 November 2022
There’s nothing wrong with hindsight if you want to separate good thinking from bad
Essays & reportage
The strange career of the great Australian silence
Dean Ashenden
15 November 2022
How a journey north from Adelaide led to
Telling Tennant’s Story
, the 2022 Political Book of the Year
Essays & reportage
Re-creation and regret
Richard Johnstone
3 November 2022
While Melburnians watch
The Lost City of Melbourne
, Sydneysiders debate Barangaroo
Essays & reportage
Making up for lost time
Margaret Simons
1 November 2022
Penny Wong wants an Australia that’s more than just a supporting player in the grand drama of global geopolitics
Essays & reportage
Hot, wild heart
Eleanor Hogan
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
Essays & reportage
Governing in times of crisis
James Walter
24 October 2022
What does history tell us about Anthony Albanese’s prospects?
Essays & reportage
What we owe the past, and what we owe the future
Tim Oakley
21 October 2022
A former colleague pays tribute to philosopher and
Inside Story
contributor Janna Thompson
Essays & reportage
Unproductive schooling, counterproductive reform
Dean Ashenden
19 October 2022
Three new Productivity Commission reports highlight big problems in schooling and school reform — and in the commission’s own thinking
Essays & reportage
Singapore swivel
Eric Ellis
11 October 2022
Optus’s troubles shine a light on the company’s ultimate controller, the hydra-headed Singapore Inc.
Essays & reportage
Return to Bali
Mark Baker
10 October 2022
A former foreign correspondent watches
Bali 2002
Essays & reportage
The correspondent who saw too much
Melissa Roberts
3 October 2022
It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops
Essays & reportage
Memories, $2 each
Anne-Marie Condé
29 September 2022
A small wooden box yields glimpses of vanished lives
Essays & reportage
What’s in a name?
Lydia Khalil
27 September 2022
Why have law enforcement agencies and the media shied away from calling out right-wing terrorism for what it is?
Essays & reportage
From messiah to mortal
Mike Steketee
20 September 2022
Forty years ago, another Labor government embarked on its first term in office
Essays & reportage
Was Fraser right?
Margaret Simons
12 September 2022
Malcolm Fraser promised no royal commission into the loans affair. Should other governments follow his lead?
Essays & reportage
Diplomacy on the defensive
Hamish McDonald
7 September 2022
Has the Australian Strategic Policy Institute been pushed off course by the China hawks?
Essays & reportage
Liberalism eclipsed
Mike Steketee
5 September 2022
Long forecast, the party’s grim prospects reflect an unpopular ideological narrowing
Essays & reportage
The Singapore grip
Tim Colebatch
17 December 2021
Singapore is good at solving economic problems, but its political stagnation is stopping it from dealing with urgent social challenges
Essays & reportage
Fake history
Klaus Neumann
8 December 2021
Has the significance of the
Tampa
affair been exaggerated?
Essays & reportage
The citizen historian
Frank Bongiorno
1 December 2021
Stuart Macintyre, 1947–2021
Essays & reportage
Uptight and uncomfortable
Renée Jeffery
22 November 2021
How can we improve Australia’s uneasy engagement with the global human rights system?
Essays & reportage
The rise and fall of an Australian dynasty
Rodney Tiffen
22 November 2021
The Packers maintained their wealth and power through almost four generations. Then things went wrong
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