Inside Story

National affairs Tell them they’re dreaming John Quiggin 11 December 2014 Nuclear power might be worth considering as a reserve option, says John Quiggin, but experience overseas shows Australia’s carbon savings must be made elsewhere National affairs Bragging rights Peter Brent 11 December 2014 Being in government is a chance to make the case that you’re a world-class economic manager, writes Peter Brent. Labor forgot that fact and will keep suffering the results National affairs More reasons why the Abbott budget is so hard to sell Tim Colebatch 5 December 2014 The budget’s shortcomings don’t end with the fairness problem, writes Tim Colebatch International Australia’s vanishing China policy Kerry Brown 25 November 2014 When the going gets tough, it’s clear that Australia really doesn’t have a fully-developed policy towards China, writes Kerry Brown

National affairs The budget, fairness and class warfare Peter Whiteford 5 August 2014 The post-budget debate reveals two fundamentally different worldviews, writes Peter Whiteford Retrospective China wakes, Asia quakes, Australia shivers Graeme Dobell 25 July 2014 Will this contest be more like a nineteenth-century battle than a twentieth-century clash? Books & arts Different diagnoses, different cures Tom Westland 23 July 2014 Has feckless Australia set itself up for a post-boom slump? Tom Westland reviews two new books that see the prospects quite differently National affairs The upsides of the gun buyback Andrew Leigh 18 July 2014 Yes, John Howard’s scheme did reduce gun deaths

Books & arts The revolutionary box Brett Evans 2 December 2013 It’s not just sweatshop labour that keeps down the price of the stuff we buy, writes Brett Evans Essays & reportage Poverty in a time of prosperity Peter Whiteford 15 September 2013 Measured by income, most Australians have never had it so good. But some groups are falling dramatically behind. Peter Whiteford warns of the dangers of residualising the poor Books & arts An American story told through Americans’ stories Lesley Russell 11 September 2013 Lesley Russell reviews a sweeping account of the United States in the twenty-first century by New Yorker writer George Packer Books & arts Elegy for the internet Ramon Lobato 11 September 2013 Ramon Lobato reviews two manifestos responding to the commercialisation of the web