Books & arts
21 July 2020
Books | Journalist Annika Smethurst underscores the personal toll of declining press freedom in Australia
National affairs
8 July 2020
Checkpoints on the NSW–Victoria border recall more acrimonious moves one hundred years ago
National affairs
1 July 2020
Could the Dyson Heydon investigation have happened without women at senior levels in the High Court?
Essays & reportage
26 June 2020
The alleged actions of former justice Dyson Heydon sit oddly with his judgement in a contentious High Court appeal
National affairs
25 June 2020
What happens when sport moves from the back pages to the front?
Essays & reportage
23 June 2020
Recipients of the Victoria Cross are expected to lead exemplary lives. What happens when one of them doesn’t?
National affairs
12 June 2020
Two major inquiries have recommended a simple measure to reduce Aboriginal deaths in custody. So why have most states taken so long to act?
Books & arts
2 June 2020
Books | A compelling account of a significant cultural moment
Correspondents
1 June 2020
As a century’s experience shows, police violence won’t stop civil rights protesters from seeking justice
National affairs
14 May 2020
Are parliamentary committees up to the job?
Essays & reportage
2 May 2020
Like the epidemic itself, the policing of Spanish flu controls fell unevenly on the population
Essays & reportage
27 April 2020
How Malcolm Turnbull turned himself into an international figure
Books & arts
26 April 2020
Books | Energy, ambition, bravado and intellect — so what went wrong for Malcolm Turnbull?
From the archive
13 April 2020
If the High Court is right about the evidence on timing, what went wrong during the prosecution and hearings?
Essays & reportage
1 April 2020
Laws made during a crisis don’t always receive the scrutiny they deserve
Essays & reportage
25 March 2020
How the communists saved Josh Frydenberg
Essays & reportage
7 March 2020
Will the High Court decide next week’s appeal on a broad legal issue or the case’s complex facts?
Essays & reportage
20 December 2019
How immigration law threatens to split a family
National affairs
9 December 2019
Australian policymakers don’t share technology companies’ belief in a borderless world
Essays & reportage
19 November 2019
This is not the first time the High Court has confronted a high-profile Victorian prosecution
International
5 November 2019
Donald Trump is drawing on decades of experience in pushing the law beyond its limits
National affairs
18 October 2019
Questions need to be asked about the federal government’s embrace of facial recognition technology
Books & arts
9 October 2019
Books | Veteran journalist Brian Toohey probes the network of laws and agencies that’s expanded rapidly in the name of national security
National affairs
30 August 2019
A Victorian judge has gone against a quarter-century’s treatment of political parties
Essays & reportage
29 August 2019
Did all three judges overstep the mark in deciding George Pell’s appeal?
National affairs
6 August 2019
What can we learn from this widely criticised member of the judiciary?
National affairs
24 July 2019
Governments across Australia are negotiating formal agreements with Indigenous communities
National affairs
21 July 2019
An edited extract from the former chief justice’s speech this week
National affairs
17 July 2019
At heart, this is an inclusive rather than divisive proposal
National affairs
14 June 2019
Nearly thirty years after the Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission, the Northern Territory finally has a custody notification service. But is there devil in its detail?