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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
Essays & reportage
Why, and why not?
Andrew Chalk
17 September 2021
Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten
Essays & reportage
Harold Evans, an editor in his time
David Hayes
14 September 2021
A more nuanced figure lies behind the obituarists’ campaigning hero-journalist
Essays & reportage
Why the New Deal still matters
Eric Rauchway
13 September 2021
In ways that still resonate, the program to drag the economy out of the Great Depression changed Americans’ relationships with politics, economics and each other
Essays & reportage
Australia’s manosphere: a prehistory
Simon Copland
13 September 2021
How keyboard warriors are displacing men’s right groups
Essays & reportage
Telling truths
Tim Rowse
10 September 2021
What will emerge from an Indigenous-led process of truth-telling?
Essays & reportage
What do we really want from farmers?
Gabrielle Chan
10 September 2021
Farming could be part of the solution to many of Australia’s problems
Essays & reportage
Unpicking the legacy of the Tampa
Madeline Gleeson
3 September 2021
Can we use a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic to help us rethink our treatment of refugees?
Essays & reportage
Was Neville Wran corrupt?
Rodney Tiffen
31 August 2021
The former NSW premier’s time in office was dogged by allegations, but do they stand up?
Essays & reportage
All that remains
Kate Fullagar
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Essays & reportage
A line in the water
Peter Mares
28 August 2021
A fateful stand-off in August 2001 saw Australia’s treatment of boat arrivals shift from deterrence by example to deterrence by force
Essays & reportage
“If we care for Country, it will care for us”
Sarah Barns
17 August 2021
What happens when the idea of Country is integrated into how Australian cities are planned?
Essays & reportage
The beauty and the terror
Tom Griffiths
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Essays & reportage
Blood in the water
Nick Richardson
6 August 2021
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s bid for asylum in Tokyo is a reminder of how the 1956 Melbourne Games were riven by politics
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