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
Essays & reportage
27 March 2021
It’s been a long road for hydrogen, but its time might finally have arrived
Essays & reportage
27 March 2021
Is the time right for the sweeping reforms proposed in a new series of essays?
Essays & reportage
26 March 2021
Is the federal government looking for too much unity in a country nourished by difference?
Essays & reportage
22 March 2021
It’s time for governments to go on the front foot, says economist Mariana Mazzucato
Essays & reportage
19 March 2021
Mark Baker recalls an encounter with David Gulpilil in 1998
Essays & reportage
19 March 2021
There’s only one good way to resolve decades-old allegations like the ones made against the attorney-general
Essays & reportage
15 March 2021
Extract | Are deeply hierarchical professions especially prone to workplace harassment?
Essays & reportage
1 February 2021
As we enter stage two of the co-design process, the government seems already to be shaping the result
Essays & reportage
17 December 2020
On Tasmania’s Central Plateau, a group of scientists prepares for a hotter future