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Essays & reportage
“We talk kind of sideways, because that’s the respectful way”
Reg Dodd and Malcolm McKinnon
17 February 2020
Extract
| For many Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has been a homeland and a refuge
National affairs
Big-hat blues
Norman Abjorensen
4 February 2020
Will a Victorian MP save the National Party from itself?
National affairs
John Cain was a leader of integrity, courage and vision… and still he lost Victoria’s top job
Tim Colebatch
23 December 2019
The former premier’s reputation has been unfairly distorted by his opponents
National affairs
Tides of opinion
John Quiggin
16 December 2019
Generational divides don’t explain much, though attitudes to climate and culture seem to be exceptions
Books & arts
Uneasy peace
Peter Stanley
15 December 2019
Books
| A new collection of essays brings further proof that Great War history is unavoidably political
Essays & reportage
Professor of everything
Tom Griffiths
3 December 2019
George Seddon helped his readers see Australia from the inside
Books & arts
White Australia’s hangover
Peter Mares
2 December 2019
Books
| A Labor MP offers an optimistic view of what multicultural Australia could become
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
National affairs
Cometh the hour, cometh the leader?
Norman Abjorensen
18 November 2019
Australia’s most transformative prime ministers were in the right place at the right time
From the archive
The year the world came to call
Sara Dowse
6 November 2019
Melbourne’s Olympic year sums up why the fifties weren’t as dull as you might think
National affairs
Country politics, city impact
Norman Abjorensen
30 October 2019
Organised rural voters first made their voices heard a century ago, with enduring implications
Books & arts
The lost world of the mayaroo
Nancy Cushing
21 October 2019
Books
| By recovering the forgotten history of the long-haired rat, Tim Bonyhady has produced a book for our times
Essays & reportage
The month Victoria held its breath
James Murphy
16 October 2019
Four weeks of suspense culminated in the demise of Victoria’s most controversial modern-day government in October 1999
Essays & reportage
An indiscreet dinner with a Soviet spy
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
What Ada Lovelace can teach us about digital technology
Lizzie O’Shea
9 September 2019
Extract
| How collaborative work can be liberating and effective
Books & arts
Ghosted
Susan Lever
13 August 2019
Books
| Two women’s experience of deafness, a century apart
Books & arts
How Hollywood saw England
Brian McFarlane
1 August 2019
Books
| American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
Essays & reportage
A brush with death: in China with the Whitlams
Richard Whitington
28 July 2019
A former member of Gough Whitlam’s staff recalls a visit to Tientsin forty-three years ago
Essays & reportage
The radical legacy of Apollo
Tom Griffiths
21 July 2019
They went to the moon but discovered the Earth
Books & arts
Coming home
Jane Goodall
19 July 2019
Television
|
Etched in Bone
tells its story with restraint and empathy
Essays & reportage
Bretton Woods at seventy-five
Selwyn Cornish
30 June 2019
Australia steered the goal of full employment into the international postwar order
National affairs
Voting for the future
Peter Brent
26 June 2019
Secrecy and convenience don’t always coincide in Australia’s highly accessible electoral system
Books & arts
Rescued from the footnotes
Sylvia Martin
25 June 2019
Books
| Maurice and Doris Blackburn resisted the pull of the mainstream
Books & arts
Sydney on the edge
Sara Dowse
21 June 2019
Books
| Historian James Dunk illuminates the colony’s manias and madnesses
Books & arts
North of Capricorn
Henry Reynolds
11 June 2019
Books
| Feelings of neglect continue to shape sentiment in Australia’s northern reaches
National affairs
Bracing times for true believers
Peter Brent
17 May 2019
What was the secret of Bob Hawke’s electoral success?
Essays & reportage
Who controls opinion polling in Australia, what else we need to know about the polls, and why it matters
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
Getting the numbers
Rodney Tiffen
13 May 2019
Inside Story
’s guide to seventy years of parties, polling and politics
Essays & reportage
The game changer
Robert Milliken
10 May 2019
A new statue of Aboriginal rights leader William Ferguson links politics past and present
International
Thirty years on, a spirit of reconciliation in New Caledonia
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
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