Essays & reportage
26 June 2020
The alleged actions of former justice Dyson Heydon sit oddly with his judgement in a contentious High Court appeal
Essays & reportage
25 June 2020
As research on the health impact of the fire season continues, the lessons are becoming clearer
Essays & reportage
25 June 2020
Australia lacks solid data about water availability and usage — and that has implications for the next federal election
Essays & reportage
23 June 2020
For one of Australia’s foremost biographers, the impulse to tell life stories has never gone away
Essays & reportage
23 June 2020
Recipients of the Victoria Cross are expected to lead exemplary lives. What happens when one of them doesn’t?
Essays & reportage
23 June 2020
What do Labor memoirs reveal about the 2010 leadership change?
Essays & reportage
19 June 2020
A colonial-era novel provides a window onto the ideas that produced our fractured federation
Essays & reportage
10 June 2020
What can we learn from Britain’s three-day week?
Essays & reportage
27 May 2020
Journalists keep losing their jobs, but politicians on all sides are refusing to face the consequences
Essays & reportage
25 May 2020
A young masters student talks to figures at the centre of the Liberal Party’s growing instability in the mid 1960s
Essays & reportage
18 May 2020
Is the Trump administration using the pandemic to reorder the international landscape?
Essays & reportage
14 May 2020
Malcolm Turnbull spilled the beans on Kerry Packer’s secret plans for Fairfax back in 1991. So why are his memoirs so coy about this key episode?
Essays & reportage
7 May 2020
Does our pandemic shed new light on the playwright and his work?
Essays & reportage
6 May 2020
What can previous crises tell us about the prospects for progressive reform after Covid-19?
Essays & reportage
5 May 2020
Why do we keeping rediscovering, then forgetting, the diabolical state of aged care?
Essays & reportage
2 May 2020
Like the epidemic itself, the policing of Spanish flu controls fell unevenly on the population
Essays & reportage
1 May 2020
Reappraisals and re-enactments have shaped public memory, but our understanding of James Cook’s life and impact continues to evolve
Essays & reportage
29 April 2020
Australia’s immensely expensive campaign against people smuggling demonised just one kind of unauthorised arrival
Essays & reportage
29 April 2020
A massive medical research effort is producing almost as many questions as answers
Essays & reportage
28 April 2020
Amid thwarted anniversary plans, a major National Museum of Australia exhibition goes online
Essays & reportage
28 April 2020
The anniversary festival has been abandoned, but the communities at Cook’s landing point continue to promote a more complex story
Essays & reportage
27 April 2020
How Malcolm Turnbull turned himself into an international figure
Essays & reportage
24 April 2020
Australia has reshaped its understanding of what we mark on 25 April
Essays & reportage
23 April 2020
It’s an unsettling time to watch Stanley Kramer’s classic, On the Beach
Essays & reportage
17 April 2020
Having yet again rediscovered Aboriginal land management practices, let’s not let the opportunity slip away
Essays & reportage
13 April 2020
How a daughter’s death caused by Spanish flu sent a family halfway across the globe
Essays & reportage
9 April 2020
The success of Canada’s education system can help us rethink our own
Essays & reportage
6 April 2020
Scott Morrison isn’t the only one whose stocks have risen
Essays & reportage
6 April 2020
How the Spanish flu reached the New South Wales town of Singleton
Essays & reportage
3 April 2020
The health system is changing in previously inconceivable ways, but let’s make sure those most in need don’t get lost along the way