Inside Story

Essays & reportage The generation game John Quiggin 5 September 2017 It makes no sense, but typecasting generations is more popular than ever Essays & reportage Rush to judgement Bronwyn Adcock 17 August 2017 Battle lines are drawn in Nowra over the complex causes of homelessness National affairs The country–city divide: more evidence of how inequality is growing Tim Colebatch 12 August 2017 Country Australia is losing out on full-time jobs, forcing its young to head for the cities Summer season Is this the end of meritocracy? Frank Bongiorno 10 August 2017 Birth and luck clearly play an enormous role in our lives. So why does the idea of a meritocracy maintain its grip?

National affairs Inequality: a three-decade story in eighteen charts Saul Eslake 6 June 2017 Is Australia doing enough to reduce inequality? Essays & reportage Surfing with Singer Peter Mares 31 May 2017 Philosopher Peter Singer puts a disturbingly simple case for altruism. Too simple, perhaps? National affairs What comes after the housing boom? Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire 29 May 2017 It’s not so much the banks’ balance sheets we should be worried about, it’s the economy-wide impact of much larger household debts Essays & reportage A consensus for care Frances Flanagan 15 May 2017 There are many reasons why work won’t simply disappear, but we need to talk about how it is distributed

National affairs Timing it wrong: benefits, income tests, overpayments and debts Jane Millar & Peter Whiteford 27 February 2017 The Centrelink overpayments controversy highlights shortcomings in social security reforms in Australia and Britain Essays & reportage Gonski at five: vision or hallucination? Ken Boston 16 February 2017 Australia urgently needs a new school funding structure, says one of the authors of the Gonski report, and it’s not the one Labor, the Coalition or their critics have in mind Books & arts Workless, or working less? John Quiggin 30 January 2017 Books | Are we coming to the end of the relatively brief period in which salaried work dominated the economy? Essays & reportage The long, slow demise of the “marriage bar” Marian Sawer 8 December 2016 It wasn’t until 1966 that women in the Australian public service won the right to remain employed after marriage, overcoming resistance even from their own union