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Essays & reportage Frank Bongiorno 26 September 2019 Former Labor national secretary David Combe, who died this week, found himself in the middle of a maelstrom in March 1983, just as his party was taking government
Essays & reportage Lizzie O’Shea 9 September 2019 Extract | How collaborative work can be liberating and effective 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 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 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 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 Ann Hordern (c. 1791–1871), founder of Anthony Hordern & Sons Recovered Lives Nichola Garvey 8 March 2019 Catherine Henrys (c. 1806–55) Recovered Lives Nichola Garvey 8 March 2019 Lydia Clay (1811–58), Elizabeth Quarmby (1822–93), Mary Ann Wentworth (1824–1911) and Ruth Richardson (1817–58), transportees Recovered Lives Julie McIntyre 8 March 2019 Mary Penfold (1816–95)