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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
Essays & reportage
Rogue nation?
Klaus Neumann
22 November 2021
Is Australia’s international reputation really that bad? And if so, should it matter?
Essays & reportage
The battle for Hume heats up
Brett Evans
19 November 2021
The campaign to unseat federal minister Angus Taylor has made a canny choice of candidate
Essays & reportage
Taking the arrows
Margaret Simons
12 November 2021
Gaven Morris leaves the job of ABC news director after six of the broadcaster’s most controversial years
Essays & reportage
Atlassian shrugged
Hamish McDonald
29 October 2021
Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is using his wealth to shake up Australian business and politics
Essays & reportage
Syd Negus, the forgotten tax-slayer
Peter Browne
14 October 2021
Why is Australia among the few Western countries that don’t tax inheritances?
Essays & reportage
In no-man’s land
Klaus Neumann
1 October 2021
The predicament of refugees at the Polish–Belarusian border evokes deportations to Poland in 1938 and a novel published in 1940
Essays & reportage
When Amazon comes to town
Alec MacGillis
1 October 2021
The online retailer expanded massively during the Covid-19 pandemic, but where does that leave the rest of the American economy?
Essays & reportage
The dealmaker
Frank Bongiorno
24 September 2021
John Elliott — who died this week — in many ways personified the business excesses of Australia’s 1980s
Essays & reportage
The trailblazer
Mark Baker
24 September 2021
Journalist Jan Mayman pioneered reporting of Indigenous deaths in custody
Essays & reportage
Power without purpose?
James Walter
24 September 2021
A long process of change has reached its apogee in the prime ministership of Scott Morrison
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