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Books & Arts Susan Lever 13 August 2019 Books | Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Books & Arts Brian McFarlane 1 August 2019 Books | American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history Essays & Reportage Richard Whitington 28 July 2019 A former member of Gough Whitlam’s staff recalls a visit to Tientsin forty-three years ago Essays & Reportage Tom Griffiths 21 July 2019 They went to the moon but discovered the Earth Books & Arts Jane Goodall 19 July 2019 Television | Etched in Bone tells its story with restraint and empathy
Essays & Reportage Selwyn Cornish 30 June 2019 Australia steered the goal of full employment into the international postwar order
National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 26 June 2019 Secrecy and convenience don’t always coincide in Australia’s highly accessible electoral system Books & Arts Sylvia Martin 25 June 2019 Books | Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream Books & Arts Sara Dowse 21 June 2019 Books | Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses Books & Arts Henry Reynolds 11 June 2019 Books | Feelings of neglect continue to shape sentiment in Australia’s northern reaches
National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 17 May 2019 What was the secret of Bob Hawke’s electoral success?
Essays & Reportage Murray Goot 15 May 2019 The decision by former Fairfax papers to sack one of their market researchers raised thorny questions about pollsters and their polls National Affairs Rodney Tiffen 13 May 2019 Inside Story’s guide to seventy years of parties, polling and politics Essays & Reportage Robert Milliken 10 May 2019 A new statue of Aboriginal rights leader William Ferguson links politics past and present Correspondents Nic Maclellan 10 May 2019 The legacy of assassinated Kanak independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou still drives the movement for independence in the French Pacific dependency
International Janna Thompson 30 April 2019 Reparations for slavery have moved from the fringes of American political debate
Essays & Reportage Tom Hyland 25 April 2019 A chance reference leads to a bloody battlefield and a different Australia Books & Arts Tom Greenwell 17 April 2019 Books | Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination? Correspondents Klaus Neumann 16 April 2019 A decade ago, that distinctive national mood seemed to have died out. And then came the rise of far-right populism National Affairs Judith Betts 12 April 2019 Contemporary records show that Australia didn’t adequately assist refugees admitted during the Lebanese civil war
Books & Arts Chris Cunneen 22 March 2019 Books | Sydney’s Paddington was shaped by topography and “builders of modest means”
Books & Arts Jane Goodall 12 March 2019 Television | A new series releases Australia’s past from the familiar black-and-white Books & Arts Susan Lever 8 March 2019 Books | The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia Recovered Lives Melanie Nolan 8 March 2019 Introducing our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography Recovered Lives Barbara Dawson 8 March 2019 Part of our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Recovered Lives Nichola Garvey 8 March 2019 Part of our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Recovered Lives Nichola Garvey 8 March 2019 Part of our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography Recovered Lives Julie McIntyre 8 March 2019 Part of our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography Recovered Lives Karen Fox 8 March 2019 Part of our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography Recovered Lives Peter Davies 8 March 2019 Part of our collection of articles on Australian history’s missing women, in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography