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National Affairs
Borrowed time
Rodney Tiffen
19 March 2021
Trigger-happy state opposition MPs seem set on repeating the mistakes of the past
National Affairs
Muting the messenger
Margaret Simons
12 March 2021
The media is entering challenging new territory. Let’s hope the reporters don’t get in the way of the story
Books & Arts
Clipping his own ticket
Michael Gill
8 December 2020
Books
| How Lionel Barber rescued one of the world’s great newspapers
Correspondents
Captain Abbott’s pick
David Hayes
2 October 2020
Britain’s man-gets-job frenzy was less about Tony Abbott than it seemed
National Affairs
How low can you go?
Peter Brent
21 September 2020
Structural shifts mean that Labor’s primary vote is only part of the election-winning equation
Essays & Reportage
All hands on deck
Michael Dillon
21 August 2020
Noel Pearson’s job guarantee plan meets its most powerful critic: the newspaper that published it
National Affairs
Here is the news (good and bad) for local readers
Sora Park and Caroline Fisher
13 August 2020
Despite the shaky business model, the thirst for local news hasn’t gone away in regional Australia
Books & Arts
Something somebody wants suppressed
Kieran Pender
21 July 2020
Books
| Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
International
Italy’s Black Lives Matter moment
James Panichi
30 June 2020
Clashes over a statue in Milan reveal complicated truths about the country’s postwar history
National Affairs
Speaking freely in special clothing
Graeme Orr
25 June 2020
What happens when sport moves from the back pages to the front?
National Affairs
How disasters are shaping Australians’ news habits
Sora Park, Caroline Fisher, Jee Young Lee and Kieran McGuinness
16 June 2020
A new study tracks the rise in news consumption during the bushfires and the pandemic — and finds a glimmer of hope for publishers
Essays & Reportage
When Kerry Packer met his match
Rodney Tiffen
14 May 2020
Malcolm Turnbull spilled the beans on Kerry Packer’s secret plans for Fairfax back in 1991. So why are his memoirs so coy about this key episode?
Essays & Reportage
“Don’t ever expect anything from me”
Mark Baker
27 April 2020
How Malcolm Turnbull turned himself into an international figure
Books & Arts
The Prince
Frank Bongiorno
26 April 2020
Books
| Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
National Affairs
Over to you, talkback radio and citizen juries?
Peter Brent
16 April 2020
Calls for a “national discussion” paper over the reality of an evolving crisis
National Affairs
The worst draft of history
Peter Brent
31 March 2020
Highly strung journalists aren’t doing anyone any favours tweeting about Covid-19
National Affairs
Filling in the missing rationale for Australia’s Covid-19 response
Daniel Reeders
26 March 2020
How can government fill the information gap at the heart of Australia’s strategy?
National Affairs
Covid-19’s six lessons for Australian healthcare
Jennifer Doggett
20 March 2020
The coronavirus has exposed structural flaws in the way we prevent and treat ill health
Essays & Reportage
The age of the news agency needn’t be over
Rodney Tiffen
19 March 2020
Vital reasons for the rise of Reuters, Australian Associated Press and other agencies haven’t gone away
Essays & Reportage
Public messaging when it matters most
Matthew Sussex
12 March 2020
What are the lessons of overseas Covid-19 responses for Australian policymakers?
National Affairs
Off the wire
Susan Forde
5 March 2020
Conceived as a locally oriented source of world news, Australian Associated Press has fallen victim to a changing media landscape
National Affairs
Publishers, platforms and policy détente
James Meese
20 February 2020
As the implications of the ACCC’s recommendations on digital platforms continue to unfold, the political challenges aren’t getting any easier
National Affairs
Millennial madness
John Quiggin
10 February 2020
Which generation has the biggest stake in the absurdities of the generation game?
Books & Arts
“Its appetites were his appetites; its mentality was his mentality”
Matthew Ricketson
29 January 2020
Books
| To an alarming degree, reality TV matches how Donald Trump sees the world
Correspondents
Britain’s elusive epic
David Hayes
11 December 2019
A fragmented election campaign nears its big reveal
National Affairs
The Morrison playbook
Rodney Tiffen
4 October 2019
The prime minister’s style has proved effective so far, but does it contain the seeds of its own failure?
Books & Arts
What makes the rich different
Jane Goodall
9 September 2019
Television
| Wealth is a means rather than an end in the second season of
Succession
National Affairs
Last gasp for the Packer mystique?
Rodney Tiffen
27 August 2019
His father’s media empire is long gone, but James Packer is still treated with kid gloves by both sides of politics
National Affairs
What the ACCC thinks about journalism
Margaret Simons
30 July 2019
Much has been written about what the regulator thinks of the big digital platforms, but what do its recommendations mean for reporting and analysis?
Books & Arts
Doing the dirty work
Jane Goodall
24 July 2019
Television
| Does
The Loudest Voice
let the former Fox News supremo off too lightly?
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