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crime
Books & Arts
On listening
Sara Dowse
14 September 2018
Books
| Germaine Greer has always been sharper as a critic than as a proponent of solutions
National Affairs
How I would spend $100 million to reduce crime
Rick Sarre
8 August 2018
Australian and international research can help us distinguish between successful and unsuccessful initiatives
National Affairs
#MeToo gets closer to home
Sophie Black
29 May 2018
Are restrictive defamation laws discouraging Australian women from coming forward?
National Affairs
Does transparency have its limits?
Grant Hoole
23 May 2018
South Australia’s decision to expand ICAC’s powers raises thorny questions about the balance between fairness and openness
Essays & Reportage
Looking for trouble
Margaret Simons
18 May 2018
Four months after the summer troubles, a reporter heads to Melbourne’s western fringe in search of “African gangs”
Books & Arts
Life on Earth
Jane Goodall
1 May 2018
Television
| Two bold genre-busting crime series meet with mixed success
National Affairs
The Great Assenters
Jeremy Gans
1 May 2018
Are we all the losers in the High Court’s quest for consensus?
National Affairs
How to reverse Australia’s remand explosion
Rick Sarre
29 April 2018
Burgeoning numbers of untried prisoners are fuelling an unsustainable rise in Australia’s prison population. Only a shift in resources will bring the figure down
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
Books & Arts
Judge of the people
Jeremy Gans
9 April 2018
The memoirs of one of Australia’s best-known judges raise important questions about sentencing, politics and the media
Correspondents
Is America’s gun debate different this time?
Lesley Russell
15 March 2018
As US gun-control efforts continue, there are signs of a shift in opinion and resolve
Essays & Reportage
Arms and the mandate
Tony Blackshield
12 March 2018
Efforts to water down gun control in the United States have relied on a shift in how a majority of Supreme Court justices view two thorny constitutional issues
Correspondents
From cascade to citadel
David Hayes
6 December 2017
How the post-Weinstein furore shook British politics
Books & Arts
Making sense of crime
Rick Sarre
16 November 2017
Books
| A former adviser to Tony Blair tackles conventional views of crime and its causes
International
The age of the mega-leak
Rodney Tiffen
7 November 2017
The Panama Papers looked like the culmination of a new era for leakers — and then the Paradise Papers came along. But can we expect action to follow?
National Affairs
Trouble in paradise
Jane Goodall
7 November 2017
Television
|
Four Corners
played an important role in exploring the Paradise Papers. But did it choose the right targets?
National Affairs
Triple-century challenge
Sally McCausland
2 November 2017
Chris Gayle’s courtroom win shows the risks of the global campaign to expose alleged sexual predators
Essays & Reportage
Lionel Murphy and the presumption of guilt
Tony Blackshield
21 September 2017
Some of the most serious allegations against the reforming attorney-general turned High Court judge centre on his relationships — real or imagined — with three notorious…
Books & Arts
Revenge and restitution
Janna Thompson
19 July 2017
Books
| Martha Nussbaum wants to take the anger out of public life. It’s a highly ambitious goal, and would it necessarily be desirable?
Books & Arts
S-Town’s dark mirror
Sally McCausland
7 April 2017
Podcasts
| This gripping sequel to
Serial
ventures into the southern badlands
Books & Arts
The new golden age of Australian true crime
Sally McCausland
20 December 2016
How Australian true-crime podcasters are doing better than
Serial
Books & Arts
The matriarch
Sara Dowse
16 August 2016
Books
| Was Kate Leigh a bad woman, the worst in Sydney?
Books & Arts
The enemy within
Jane Goodall
28 November 2015
Television
| Free-to-air TV can still shift public debate, writes
Jane Goodall.
But can it break free of its own conventions?
National Affairs
A rocky road for unwary royal commissioners
Janet Ransley
31 August 2015
Judges take a risk when they step outside the courtroom to play the role of royal commissioner
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
Out of the comfort zone
Jane Goodall
31 July 2015
Television
| Crime drama has been tipped upside down, writes
Jane Goodall
, as the BBC’s
Line of Duty
and Helen Piper’s
The TV Detective
reveal
National Affairs
Will the tiger roar again?
Anthony Whealy
20 May 2015
ICAC risks becoming a toothless tiger if the recommendations of a NSW government review don’t restore all or most of its powers, argues a former Appeals Court judge
National Affairs
Reckless beyond words?
Andrew Leigh
12 May 2015
Andrew Leigh
takes a data-driven look at what the critics say about young Australians
Correspondents
Dirty big secrets
David Hayes
6 April 2015
A spate of disclosures of child sexual abuse sets a challenging test for British society, writes
David Hayes
in London
Correspondents
“Of course I’m going to try to save my citizens from execution”
Ross Tapsell
31 March 2015
In Indonesia, executions are less about effective policy and more about feelings of nationalism and sovereignty, writes
Ross Tapsell
in Jakarta
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