Essays & reportage
10 September 2021
What will emerge from an Indigenous-led process of truth-telling?
Essays & reportage
10 September 2021
Farming could be part of the solution to many of Australia’s problems
Essays & reportage
3 September 2021
Can we use a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic to help us rethink our treatment of refugees?
Essays & reportage
31 August 2021
The former NSW premier’s time in office was dogged by allegations, but do they stand up?
Essays & reportage
30 August 2021
The burial sites of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip suggest new ways of thinking about early Australia
Essays & reportage
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
17 August 2021
What happens when the idea of Country is integrated into how Australian cities are planned?
Essays & reportage
6 August 2021
Mandy Martin, Australian artist
Essays & reportage
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
Essays & reportage
2 August 2021
When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships?
Essays & reportage
29 July 2021
Marise Payne has much to contend with as foreign minister in the Morrison government
Essays & reportage
23 July 2021
It’s crunch time for Australia’s film and sound heritage
Essays & reportage
20 July 2021
The debate about Dark Emu is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of The Biggest Estate on Earth
Essays & reportage
16 July 2021
Based in a nondescript office in inner Sydney in 2016–17, a secret team set about saving the publisher’s newspapers
Essays & reportage
9 July 2021
A journalist returns again and again to Pakistan’s largest city
Essays & reportage
5 July 2021
How skilfully has the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s new pollster gauged opinion on quarantine, cutting emissions, and China?
Essays & reportage
8 June 2021
The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a reminder of the challenges it raises for historians
Essays & reportage
7 June 2021
A new podcast brilliantly tracks Australia’s “biggest insider trading case.” But does it let the authorities off too lightly?
Essays & reportage
4 June 2021
Manufacturers of unhealthy products aren’t letting the crisis go to waste
Essays & reportage
28 May 2021
The high-profile federal energy minister faces a grassroots campaign in his electorate
Essays & reportage
28 May 2021
The pandemic has increased the bargaining power of seasonal workers in rural Australia. But how long will that last?
Essays & reportage
27 May 2021
The overwhelming Yes vote still grips our imagination
Essays & reportage
14 May 2021
Women’s full right — and responsibility — to sit on juries came late to Australia
Essays & reportage
10 May 2021
With the pandemic under control, Australian researchers have resumed their quest for a psychedelic approach to mental health
Essays & reportage
30 April 2021
The Chinese president has rewritten the post-Mao rules, and the global implications could be profound
Essays & reportage
24 April 2021
A photograph in the Australian War Memorial sends our contributor on a journey to a Tasmania rent by war
Essays & reportage
24 April 2021
Extract | Signals officer Doug Lush witnessed up close the disastrous impact of a strategic miscalculation
Essays & reportage
9 April 2021
With a new book reopening the debate about the one-time NSW premier’s behaviour in office, our correspondent assesses the evidence
Essays & reportage
8 April 2021
Although his music is commonly divided into three distinct periods, the unique voice of the twentieth century’s most famous composer always rings true
Essays & reportage
7 April 2021
Politics meets science in response to the WHO’s report on the origins of the coronavirus