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Essays & Reportage
Untangling the hair trade
Assa Doron & Robin Jeffrey
28 April 2018
Extract
| Discarded hair makes a circuitous journey from India to the West, gathering value along the way
Correspondents
Androgenetic alopecia at the eighteenth party congress
Antonia Finnane
19 November 2012
There are plenty of full heads of hair in the new Politburo, but few of them are women’s, reports
Antonia Finnane
Books & Arts
“An unfathomable, shapeshifting thing”
Zora Simic
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Books & Arts
Ah, yes, there you are
Richard Johnstone
1 October 2014
Photographer Jane Bown sought to unearth something essential and make it visible
National Affairs
Ruffling the hair apparent
Rodney Tiffen
2 November 2022
Once a key player in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian empire, Ken Cowley ended up on the outer
Books & Arts
Genetic injustices
Jeremy Gans
7 June 2012
DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 prisoners in the United States, but an Australian case highlights its potential to mislead
Essays & Reportage
Two worlds
Louise K. Hansen
12 October 2023
“You don’t even look Nyoongar,” they told the author as a schoolgirl. “Are you sure you’re Aboriginal?”
Essays & Reportage
Cracking the dress code
Jane Goodall
5 July 2013
Germaine Greer’s advice to Julia Gillard to “get rid of those bloody jackets!” created a storm. But perhaps she was onto something, writes
Jane Goodall
Essays & Reportage
Lillian and Germaine in New York
Robert Milliken
20 January 2011
Robert Milliken
recounts the fraught relationship between two Australian women who made enormous contributions to the international literature of the counterculture
Books & Arts
Sound and vision
Richard Johnstone
17 November 2015
Photography
| Tony Mott didn’t so much fall into photography as throw himself into it, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
The photographer and her work
Richard Johnstone
24 August 2015
After taking up photography at forty-eight, Julia Margaret Cameron produced a remarkable and distinctive body of work
Essays & Reportage
“We know each other, but we’re not loving… That’s what the state ward took from us”
Gillian Cowlishaw
13 February 2009
Annette’s story is not just another addition to Australia’s “stolen generation” narrative, writes
Gillian Cowlishaw
National Affairs
What you see is what you get
Peter Brent
12 September 2018
A News Corp cartoonist runs into trouble again
Essays & Reportage
Crossing lines in multiracial Singapore
David Fettling
7 August 2017
After Singapore’s early years of turmoil, how are its residents living in an era of peace and prosperity?
Books & Arts
What happened next
Richard Johnstone
23 February 2015
Photography
| Unlike conventional war photography, aftermath photographs record consequences and allow us to explore the significance of what’s depicted, writes…
Books & Arts
Bad moon rising
Jane Goodall
31 August 2015
Television
|
Aquarius
is a frustrating package of potentially great ideas, writes
Jane Goodall
Books & Arts
Very like, and very unlike
Tim Rowse
17 December 2013
As two Australian books show, the European Enlightenment rested partly on a global traffic of persons between widely separated spaces
Books & Arts
Neoclassical maelstrom
Jane Goodall
9 August 2018
Television
| With just one lapse, an exceptional cast has brought to life the anguished world of Edward St Aubyn
From the archive
New tricks
Nick Haslam
30 July 2021
We might not be able to change who we are, but we can certainly change what we do
From the archive
In the shadow of heroes
Klaus Neumann
7 May 2021
The centenary of the birth of Sophie Scholl, the Munich student executed in 1943, prompts reflections on the legacy of Germany’s anti-Nazi resistance
International
The long shadow of Bravo
Nic Maclellan
25 February 2014
Six decades after the United States conducted its most powerful nuclear test in the Marshall Islands, governments are once again debating the humanitarian impact of nuclear…
Essays & Reportage
What did you do in the war, Sandy?
Anne-Marie Condé
13 June 2023
How closely was Barry Humphries’s least domineering character based on ex–second world war servicemen?
Correspondents
Healing Hong Kong’s political divisions – not as easy as ABC?
Duncan Hewitt
21 February 2017
Updated 28 February
| Candidates for next month’s election of a new chief executive are coming up against a more radical generation
Recovered Lives
“High time” for the Huddersfield Four
Nichola Garvey
8 March 2019
Lydia Clay (1811–58), Elizabeth Quarmby (1822–93), Mary Ann Wentworth (1824–1911) and Ruth Richardson (1817–58), transportees
Essays & Reportage
Murder in bohemia
Gideon Haigh
12 April 2018
Extract
| Hidden behind the scandal of Mollie Dean’s death was a story worth telling
Essays & Reportage
The ouija board jurors
Jeremy Gans
2 October 2017
A letter from a worried juror threw into doubt Stephen Young’s conviction for the murder of Harry and Nicola Fuller. Did it also pinpoint a weakness in the way juries work?
Essays & Reportage
“Okay. Let’s make some music”
Peter Mares
22 January 2018
Youth homelessness is more than a question of affordable accommodation. A new project shows how music can play an unexpected role
Essays & Reportage
The beard of the prophet
Tom Fitzgerald
30 October 2018
A visit to Thirroul and the man who remembers D.H. Lawrence
Books & Arts
A table, a fruit bowl and one shrivelled apple
Richard Johnstone
14 July 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Mark McShane’s
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Books & Arts
Fantales
Desley Deacon
4 July 2023
How Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman crossed the psychic gangway between Sydney and Hollywood
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