Inside Story

National affairs Skerricks of evidence Hamish McDonald 12 March 2025 Final submissions have brought a surprising twist to the judicial inquiry into the Croatian Six bombing convictions Books & arts Secret world Graeme Dobell 4 February 2025 The intelligencer who built Australia’s spy service Essays & reportage Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice? Hamish McDonald 22 November 2024 A judicial inquiry has been told of withheld evidence that would have fundamentally challenged the case against the Croatian Six Essays & reportage Staying in the room Hamish McDonald 21 October 2024 Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?

National affairs Is security trumping democracy? Richard Robison and Garry Rodan 8 September 2023 Australia’s foreign policy is falling victim to domestic conflicts between conservatism and social democracy National affairs Pink gin diplomacy Hamish McDonald 4 May 2023 The government’s strategic review has left the commentariat puzzled Essays & reportage Timor gaps Hamish McDonald 8 December 2022 Labor’s decision to drop the prosecution of Bernard Collaery leaves key questions unresolved Books & arts Eyes spy Phillip Deery 9 November 2022 Harmony and hostility exist side by side in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network

From the archive The accidental senator Hamish McDonald 20 August 2021 An independent from South Australia is exerting outsized influence in Canberra From the archive Lonely evenings at the photocopier Rodney Tiffen 17 May 2021 Two leaks, two contrasting sequences of events — how Daniel Ellsberg and Chelsea Manning changed the course of history From the archive Held captive by cold war politics Hamish McDonald 5 March 2021 More than forty years later, lawyers are using evidence of an ASIO cover-up to clear the names of the Croatian Six National affairs Higher authorities Hamish McDonald 20 November 2020 Who is being helped by the continuing pressure on Bernard Collaery and Witness K?