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Retrospective

For a special “best of” season running during March–April 2026 we asked long-time Inside Story contributors to choose one of their own articles and add a 2026 postscript. Here are their selections so far, in reverse chronological order…

Retrospective Jock Given 23 September 2010 At the Imperial Palace, Human Nature is gearing up for two more years of “Celebration of Motown.” But it’s fibre-to-the-home further along The Strip that’s generating the… Retrospective Peter Mares 13 March 2009 All the evidence is in, yet the government has ordered another inquiry into the impact of gambling Retrospective Peter Brent 16 February 2009 Malcolm Turnbull is playing the long game, but he mightn’t be leader when it counts Retrospective Tom Griffiths 16 February 2009 Testimony from the 1939 and 2009 fires reveals what we haven’t learnt from history