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Correspondents
Glasgow kiss
Michael Jacobs
15 November 2021
Is it finally the end of the line for fossil fuels? Our correspondent’s Glasgow COP26 wrap-up
Books & arts
Schooling’s Ozymandias
Dean Ashenden
12 November 2021
A new analysis of Australian education provides clues as to what’s gone wrong
Essays & reportage
Taking the arrows
Margaret Simons
12 November 2021
Gaven Morris leaves the job of ABC news director after six of the broadcaster’s most controversial years
National affairs
Whose heartland?
Peter Brent
10 November 2021
Once seen as fabled “Howard’s battler” territory, Parramatta will be looking for a new MP at the next election
Correspondents
“System change, not climate change!”
Michael Jacobs
9 November 2021
There is a paradox at the heart of climate activists’ demands for the overthrow of capitalism
Books & arts
The scalpel and the axe
Robert Phiddian
5 November 2021
Bill Leak’s biographer offers a sympathetic but unflinching account of the controversial cartoonist’s life
National affairs
How Labor wins
Brett Evans
5 November 2021
Pundits want Anthony Albanese to talk big. But is that the way Labor takes government?
From the archive
Inventing “ScoMo”
Sean Kelly
5 November 2021
The prime minister set his own test for success — authenticity — and then went about passing it
Correspondents
Closing the Glasgow gap
Michael Jacobs
4 November 2021
With the national leaders departing, the climate talks are commencing in earnest. And the optimists see grounds for hope
Books & arts
Democracy is for losers
Ryan Cropp
29 October 2021
How does a system that tolerates its enemies defend itself?
National affairs
Is it time for voter ID?
Peter Brent
27 October 2021
The federal government thinks so, but probably for the wrong reasons
National affairs
When sharing isn’t caring
Adam Triggs
27 October 2021
Sovereign countries sharing the same currency, euro-style, have been a recipe for disaster. So why has the idea endured?
Books & arts
Is satire dead?
Jane Goodall
22 October 2021
Signs suggest the pen might no longer be mightier than the sword
National affairs
Heading south
Rob Manwaring
22 October 2021
South Australia’s Liberals have been creating national headlines for all the wrong reasons
Books & arts
What the Romans have done for us
Stephen Mills
22 October 2021
Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors
National affairs
Getting from here to net zero
Tim Colebatch
20 October 2021
As Australia continues to dodge, the International Energy Agency issues a blueprint for action
National affairs
Presidential politics
John Hawkins
18 October 2021
Australia got a new president this week. But it’s not a name you might recognise
International
Chateaued dream
Brett Evans
14 October 2021
The political risk was missing from the price tag of the Czech PM’s luxury hideaway
Essays & reportage
Syd Negus, the forgotten tax-slayer
Peter Browne
14 October 2021
Why is Australia among the few Western countries that don’t tax inheritances?
International
AUKUS disrupts “a very peaceful part of planet Earth”
Nic Maclellan
14 October 2021
With anti-nuclear sentiment on the rise across the islands, the Morrison government’s nuclear submarine ambitions have undercut the prime minister’s claim to be part of the…
Books & arts
Don’t ask, don’t tell
Hamish McDonald
12 October 2021
A rollercoaster account of life during China’s era of excess throws indirect light on Xi Jinping’s presidency
National affairs
Crossbench on a roll?
Peter Brent
8 October 2021
Where do the “Voices” campaigns have their best chances of winning seats at the next federal election?
National affairs
Information warfare
Margaret Simons
8 October 2021
Did the campaign to punish Melbourne’s daily papers for questioning Dan Andrews’s government hit its mark?
International
Divining the Plenum
Kerry Brown
7 October 2021
Next month’s plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee will be anything but normal
National affairs
Matt Kean’s electric vehicle diplomacy
Giles Parkinson
6 October 2021
Has the NSW environment minister changed the new premier’s mind about climate?
National affairs
The twentieth century still has us in its grip
John Quiggin
5 October 2021
A male-dominated political culture runs deep
National affairs
An intersection society no more?
Carol Johnson
4 October 2021
Australia’s retreat to the Anglosphere has implications beyond defence and trade
National affairs
State of exception
Norman Abjorensen
3 October 2021
The distinctive political culture of New South Wales could reach its apogee — with national effects — when Dominic Perrottet takes the top job
International
Joe Biden peers into the abyss
Lesley Russell
3 October 2021
The US president knows very well what history says about protracted and acrimonious legislative disputes
National affairs
Time out for a rural moderate
Brett Evans
1 October 2021
What drives Darren Chester, the Nationals MP who has boycotted his own party room?
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