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National affairs Peter Mares 3 July 2017 Malcolm Turnbull’s efforts to bring the federal government back into urban policy will be put to the test in Western Sydney
Correspondents David Hayes 19 June 2017 A hulking ruin stands in judgement over a country adrift Essays & reportage Gabrielle Appleby & Joe McIntyre 10 February 2017 Donald Trump’s sacking of Sally Yates raises broader questions about how best to respond to the new administration Essays & reportage Brian Galligan 22 December 2016 Keith Windschuttle has assembled a highly selective case against recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution National affairs Jon Altman 16 December 2016 The abolition of Community Development Employment Projects has undermined economic renewal in remote Indigenous communities
Books & arts David Hayes 2 December 2016 Cinema | The veteran director’s tender dive into the indignity of Britain’s welfare system tries too hard to avoid complication
Essays & reportage Kcasey McLoughlin 30 November 2016 The appointment of the new chief justice is a reminder that diversity and merit are not mutually exclusive  National affairs Gabrielle Appleby 15 November 2016 George Brandis’s backdown is only the first step in clarifying and protecting the role of this key legal officer National affairs Gabrielle Appleby 5 October 2016 From the archive | Relations between the attorney-general and the solicitor-general play a key role in the rule of law in Australia. So what explains George… National affairs David Clune 4 October 2016 A slump in popularity highlights the challenges for Mike Baird’s brand of leadership
National affairs Peter Brent 29 September 2016 Short of constitutional change, there’s one way to sort out a dysfunctional Senate – and we got a glimpse during the hung parliament
Essays & reportage Patrick Sullivan 2 September 2016 It’s time for a national inquiry into how the outback can be better funded for black and white alike, writes Patrick Sullivan National affairs Peter Mares 5 August 2016 With more than 800,000 temporary migrants in Australia, the assumption that everyone who lives here is a permanent resident or a citizen has created dangerous blind spots, writes… Essays & reportage Patrick Sullivan 29 June 2016 The rise of “deficit metrics” and the federal government’s retreat from Indigenous affairs have reversed the direction set by the historic 1967 referendum,… National affairs Paddy Gourley 16 May 2016 Another in a long line of reports on the Australian Public Service fails to understand the nature of the public sector, writes Paddy Gourley
National affairs Tim Colebatch 27 April 2016 Transport is where the action is in this week’s Victorian budget, writes Tim Colebatch, but the spending isn’t quite as generous as it looks
Books & arts Norman Abjorensen 8 April 2016 Books | The Australian prime ministership was created out of almost nothing during the first five decades of the twentieth century, writes Norman Abjorensen Essays & reportage Anne Tiernan 3 February 2016 Why do parties have so much trouble learning from past successes and failures, asks Anne Tiernan Books & arts Paddy Gourley 1 December 2015 Books | Laura Tingle is right to say that government must become better at remembering, writes Paddy Gourley, but her argument has memory lapses of its own Essays & reportage Stuart Macintyre 12 August 2015 Extract | Seventy years ago this week, prime minister Ben Chifley announced that the war in the Pacific was over. Planning for peace was already well under way, writes…
Books & arts John Fitzgerald 11 August 2015 Books | Political philosopher Daniel A. Bell wants us to see China as a meritocracy-in-progress, writes John Fitzgerald. But is he really defending autocracy?
Books & arts Jane Goodall 13 July 2015 Books | Why are we angered by stories of Greek hairdressers retiring at fifty on public pensions, asks Jane Goodall, yet unmoved at the thought of bailed-out… Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 21 May 2015 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson on Canberra’s last Electric Shadow, George Brandis and the Australia Council, and Testament of Youth and X+Y Books & arts Paul ’t Hart 14 May 2015 Books | Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie want us to think differently about making decisions in groups. But there’s a small herd of elephants in the room, writes… National affairs Tim Colebatch 5 May 2015 Victoria’s Labor treasurer might have echoed Tolstoy in his budget speech, writes Tim Colebatch, but the fine print doesn’t rise to the challenges facing the state
National affairs Tim Colebatch 31 March 2015 Can the Coalition – and Labor and the Greens – rise to the challenge of tax reform? Tim Colebatch assesses the government’s discussion paper
National affairs Peter Brent 16 March 2015 Are the self-appointed consciences of the Liberal Party helping the government? Peter Brent doesn’t think so National affairs Marija Taflaga 12 March 2015 Australia’s major parties have learned the wrong lessons from the failure of John Hewson’s 1993 Fightback! campaign and the success of John Howard’s bid… National affairs Tim Colebatch 5 March 2015 A serious message has been swamped by politics in this latest attempt to model the next forty years, argues Tim Colebatch in Canberra National affairs Peter Brent 26 February 2015 John Howard had an enormous stroke of luck, writes Peter Brent. To realise that is to recognise that imitating him is counterproductive