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Essays & Reportage
Politics and water do mix
Margaret Simons
25 June 2020
Australia lacks solid data about water availability and usage — and that has implications for the next federal election
Essays & Reportage
What are whitefellas talking about when we talk about “cultural burning”?
Timothy Neale
17 April 2020
Having yet again rediscovered Aboriginal land management practices, let’s not let the opportunity slip away
Books & Arts
Carrying the flame
Tyson Yunkaporta
17 April 2020
Books
| Clear, direct and sometimes cheeky,
Fire Country
is about more than fire
National Affairs
Time to think differently — but just how differently?
Jane Goodall
20 February 2020
The aftermath of the fires is a perfect opportunity to test the concept of a basic income
Essays & Reportage
Capital of the west
Robert Milliken
6 February 2020
Migration is helping make drought-stricken Dubbo a dynamic regional city
Essays & Reportage
Inflammatory exchanges
Jane Goodall
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?
Essays & Reportage
Here comes the sun
Tristan Edis
7 January 2020
Are three multimillionaires about to break Australia’s political deadlock on climate?
National Affairs
Australia’s multicultural advantage
Abul Rizvi
22 November 2019
Our immigration success story didn’t happen by accident — but is it under threat?
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
National Affairs
Migration policy enters uncharted waters
Abul Rizvi
18 October 2019
New rules mean the government’s migration projections could be seriously wrong
National Affairs
WIN or lose for rural viewers?
Gary Dickson & Margaret Simons
21 June 2019
Does the regional broadcaster’s decision to close more newsrooms breach its licence obligations?
Essays & Reportage
Fighting for the bight
Seumas Spark
25 May 2019
A Norwegian company says it can drill safely in the Great Australian Bight. Scientists disagree.
National Affairs
Why has the Darling dried up?
David Lewis & John Langford
8 May 2019
“Watergate” is the tip of a much bigger scandal in the Murray–Darling’s northern basin
From the archive
A red-hot chance in Indi?
Kerry Ryan
13 March 2019
Andrew Wilkie rates her prospects highly, but independent candidate Helen Haines faces quite a challenge if she’s to follow Cathy McGowan into parliament
National Affairs
Fixing the Murray-Darling Basin
David Lewis & John Langford
22 February 2019
Good science is vital to rescuing the Basin, but the SA royal commission pushes the argument too far
National Affairs
Breakthrough at Bourke
Robert Milliken
11 December 2018
An outback town’s gamble on cutting Indigenous crime is paying remarkable dividends
Books & Arts
Poor white bloke
Frank Bongiorno
22 October 2018
Books
| Is Barnaby Joyce on the rise again? On the evidence of his memoir, things could get ugly
Books & Arts
On the brink
Jane Goodall
18 October 2018
Books
| Journalist Gabrielle Chan captures a new mood in country Australia
National Affairs
Doing the numbers on doctor shortages
Jennifer Doggett
25 September 2018
There’s a straightforward way of making sure more doctors work where they’re needed
Essays & Reportage
Revival on the Darling
Robert Milliken
18 September 2018
An outback town finds a way to cut Indigenous crime and imprisonment where governments have failed
National Affairs
The PM and the migration conundrum
Abul Rizvi
10 September 2018
Scott Morrison isn’t the first leader to promise that more migrants will settle outside the major cities
National Affairs
Voices of the land
Jane Goodall
5 September 2018
The ABC is experimenting with ways of deepening its coverage of regional Australia
Books & Arts
Roads to recovery
Jane Goodall
11 July 2018
Television
| Behind the stereotypes, ABC TV’s
Back Roads
reveals a quiet rural revolution
National Affairs
Big picture, few hilltops
Margaret Simons
14 November 2017
Where is the ABC heading? Michelle Guthrie’s latest announcement doesn’t make the future much clearer
Essays & Reportage
Inside Australia’s first virtual school
Tom Greenwell
28 September 2017
Could a new model of online learning break down the growing divide between Australian schools?
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
National Affairs
One census, three stories
Tim Colebatch
5 July 2017
Dig a little deeper, and the figures tell us unexpected things about more than one Australia
Essays & Reportage
Every town is a Bordertown
Peter Mares
14 December 2016
Near the South Australia–Victoria border, a small community captures the highs and lows of the migration experience
Podcasts
Toads on the evolutionary road
Rick Shine & Terry Lane
22 October 2016
Can evolution be used to control the spread of cane toads? In this 2005 interview, biologist Rick Shine reports from the field
Essays & Reportage
Golden disobedience: the history of Eric Rolls
Tom Griffiths
9 August 2016
For Eric Rolls, historical writing needed to serve the future, writes
Tom Griffiths
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