Inside Story

Essays & reportage Why, and why not? Andrew Chalk 17 September 2021 Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten Essays & reportage “If we care for Country, it will care for us” Sarah Barns 17 August 2021 What happens when the idea of Country is integrated into how Australian cities are planned? From the archive A town not quite like Alice Hamish McDonald 13 August 2021 The past meets the future in the town that inspired Nevil Shute’s bestselling novel Essays & reportage The Great Divide Bill Gammage 20 July 2021 The debate about Dark Emu is trapped in a centuries-old European worldview, says the author of The Biggest Estate on Earth

Books & arts The moral complexity of truth-telling Tim Rowse 26 February 2021 Books | Two historians respond to the Uluru Statement’s challenge Essays & reportage Is the Voice already being muted? Tim Rowse 1 February 2021 As we enter stage two of the co-design process, the government seems already to be shaping the result Essays & reportage Orwell that ends well? Nicholas Gruen 31 August 2020 Can the latest push to evaluate Indigenous programs really Close the Gap? Essays & reportage All hands on deck Michael Dillon 21 August 2020 Noel Pearson’s job guarantee plan meets its most powerful critic: the newspaper that published it

Essays & reportage Reading Bruce Pascoe Tom Griffiths 26 November 2019 The author’s compelling yet curiously old-fashioned account of Indigenous history has inspired and empowered Books & arts Centres of gravity Jane Goodall 8 November 2019 Television | A mid-season shift of gear takes Total Control into different territory Books & arts Metamorphoses Julie Rigg 13 September 2019 Cinema | Jennifer Kent imagines an epic journey in The Nightingale National affairs The referendum conundrum Peter Brent 20 August 2019 Attempts to change the Constitution often fail, but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying