Inside Story

Essays & reportage Lighting the dark waters Amin Ansari 2 February 2016 In his winning entry for the 2015 Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition, Amin Ansari shows how social media is changing perceptions of asylum seekers seeking safety in Australia National affairs Innovation: the test is yet to come John Quiggin 10 December 2015 Education is the sector that most urgently needs to be freed from the Abbott legacy, writes John Quiggin Essays & reportage Life in the goldfish bowl Gavin J.D. Smith 2 December 2015 Why have watershed data retention laws failed to excite more opposition? Three factors might help explain our acquiescence, writes Gavin J.D. Smith International Ashley Madison and the identity protection racket Ramon Lobato & Julian Thomas 1 September 2015 Data breaches are creating a new breed of online scammer, write Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas

Essays & reportage The numbers game Ramon Lobato & Julian Thomas 10 April 2015 Once studio executives start citing illegal downloads as a measure of success, it’s clear the relationship between legal and illegal has changed, write Ramon Lobato… Books & arts A contrarian takes on the internet, again Ramon Lobato 21 March 2015 Books | Internet critic Andrew Keen might be the man for the times, but his new book fails to convince Ramon Lobato Books & arts When free trade meets free-to-air Nick Herd 28 October 2014 Cultural policy and trade policy are pulling in different directions, writes Nick Herd. Ten’s Offspring could be one casualty National affairs The long, covert history of rural telecoms policy John Doyle 8 September 2014 The choice between politically charged cross-subsidies and direct government subsidies has always been a feature of Australian telecommunications policy-making, writes John Doyle

Books & arts If content is king then distribution is King Kong Annabelle Sheehan 2 October 2013 The film and TV landscape has changed forever. Annabelle Sheehan reviews a timely guidebook Books & arts Elegy for the internet Ramon Lobato 11 September 2013 Ramon Lobato reviews two manifestos responding to the commercialisation of the web Books & arts The war that isn’t going to happen Emily Crawford 25 August 2013 “Cyber war” has more in common with the war on obesity than the second world war, says Thomas Rid. Emily Crawford reviews his new book Correspondents China’s first top-100 global brand? James Leibold 25 August 2013 Four hundred million people have downloaded WeChat, a quarter of them outside China. And the figures are growing daily, reports James Leibold