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Essays & Reportage
Essays & Reportage
Bitter harvest
Hamish McDonald
28 May 2021
The pandemic has increased the bargaining power of seasonal workers in rural Australia. But how long will that last?
Essays & Reportage
The 1967 referendum: inspiration or burden?
Tim Rowse
27 May 2021
The overwhelming Yes vote still grips our imagination
Essays & Reportage
Friendless in the courtroom
Alecia Simmonds
14 May 2021
Women’s full right — and responsibility — to sit on juries came late to Australia
Essays & Reportage
Love and fear
Kate Cole-Adams
10 May 2021
With the pandemic under control, Australian researchers have resumed their quest for a psychedelic approach to mental health
Essays & Reportage
Is there life after Xi?
Richard McGregor and Jude Blanchette
30 April 2021
The Chinese president has rewritten the post-Mao rules, and the global implications could be profound
Essays & Reportage
The names inlaid
Anne-Marie Condé
24 April 2021
A photograph in the Australian War Memorial sends our contributor on a journey to a Tasmania rent by war
Essays & Reportage
The fall of Singapore
Mark Baker
24 April 2021
Extract
| Signals officer Doug Lush witnessed up close the disastrous impact of a strategic miscalculation
Essays & Reportage
Was Bob Askin corrupt?
Mike Steketee
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
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Stravinsky’s fingerprints
Andrew Ford
8 April 2021
The twentieth century’s most famous composer died fifty years ago this week
Essays & Reportage
In search of ground zero
Lesley Russell
7 April 2021
Politics meets science in response to the WHO’s report on the origins of the coronavirus
Essays & Reportage
Up, up and away?
Nicole Hasham
27 March 2021
It’s been a long road for hydrogen, but its time might finally have arrived
Essays & Reportage
Australia’s post-Covid moment
Geoff Kitney
27 March 2021
Is the time right for the sweeping reforms proposed in a new series of essays?
Essays & Reportage
Land of plenty
Amanda Nettelbeck
26 March 2021
Is the federal government looking for too much unity in a country nourished by difference?
Essays & Reportage
What NASA’s moonshot can teach us about shaping the post-Covid economy
Michael Gill
22 March 2021
It’s time for governments to go on the front foot, says economist Mariana Mazzucato
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How the world spins
Mark Baker
19 March 2021
Mark Baker
recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
Essays & Reportage
Christian Porter’s shadow
Jeremy Gans
19 March 2021
There’s only one good way to resolve decades-old allegations like the ones made against the attorney-general
Essays & Reportage
Status and consent
Rachel Doyle
15 March 2021
Extract
| Are deeply hierarchical professions especially prone to workplace harassment?
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Is the Voice already being muted?
Tim Rowse
1 February 2021
As we enter stage two of the co-design process, the government seems already to be shaping the result
Essays & Reportage
Weekend in Gondwana
Jo Chandler
17 December 2020
On Tasmania’s Central Plateau, a group of scientists prepares for a hotter future
Essays & Reportage
Poet, writer, daughter
Cathy Perkins
7 December 2020
A daughter puts her mother’s reputation in the hands of her biographer
Essays & Reportage
After the battle
Nicholas Stuart
28 November 2020
The revelations about the Special Forces challenge one of Australia’s great foundational myths
Essays & Reportage
Can we make work work?
Andrew Leigh
27 November 2020
Books
| Are myths about jobs stopping us from seeing our working lives clearly?
Essays & Reportage
Washington’s winter war
Eric Rauchway
17 November 2020
A national crisis, an acrimonious election, a recalcitrant president — how Herbert Hoover delayed America’s recovery from the Great Depression
Essays & Reportage
Arm-to-arm combat
Michael Bennett
13 November 2020
How the world’s first vaccine came to Australia… in 1804
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Oriel Gray makes her mark
Michelle Arrow
28 October 2020
The playwright and screenwriter’s widely praised memoir returns to print
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Lessons from the lockdown
Catherine Bennett
19 October 2020
Is Melbourne emerging from its second lockdown wiser than it went in?
Essays & Reportage
Australia–China relations and the Trump factor
John Fitzgerald
14 October 2020
Australia was pursuing an independent approach well before the US president upended the strategic order
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When the personal became political
Michelle Arrow
6 October 2020
The seventies were a decade of extraordinary social upheaval, writes the presenter of this year’s Ernest Scott Lecture
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That woman in trousers
Sylvia Martin
5 October 2020
Remembered in Australia mainly for her relationship with Vida Goldstein, Cecilia John’s story took a different course after the first world war
Essays & Reportage
Remembering Susan Ryan
Sara Dowse
2 October 2020
A former colleague recalls working with the reformist Labor minister
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