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National affairs
CFMEU’s cartel question
James Panichi & Ryan Cropp
20 July 2024
Amid this week’s welter of allegations is a thorny matter of cartel law
Books & arts
On not burning out
Frances Flanagan
16 February 2023
Is the workplace malaise bigger than two organisational psychologists believe?
National affairs
Are we in Accord?
Frank Bongiorno
27 May 2020
Whatever Scott Morrison has in mind, it doesn’t sound a lot like the 1980s Labor–union agreement
National affairs
Were unions the victims of their own success?
Tom Greenwell
15 May 2018
The unions are on the march again, but this time Labor’s laws are in their sights
Books & arts
How the Show went on
Paul Rodan
28 January 2018
Books
| A former communist and a former Catholic activist combine forces to cast new light on the organisation that helped fuel the Labor split
National affairs
Anarcho-Marxist claptrap and the rule of law
Peter Mares
17 March 2017
Injustices sometimes need to be resisted unlawfully, as critics of Sally McManus should know
National affairs
The plight of Australia
William Coleman
19 December 2016
Is Australia caught in a Panglossian clench? The editor of
Only in Australia
responds to
Inside Story
’s review
Essays & reportage
The plight of the Right
John Edwards
5 December 2016
Reality fails to align with theory in a new conservative analysis of what makes Australia exceptional
Essays & reportage
The battle for The Rocks
Jim Colman
12 September 2016
Unions, residents and community groups took on a powerful government agency to thwart plans for the wholesale redevelopment of Australia’s oldest suburb, writes
Jim Colman
Books & arts
Uncommonly good?
Frank Bongiorno
23 May 2016
Books
| He’s level-headed, dogged and hard-working, writes
Frank Bongiorno
. And maybe that’s enough, whether Labor wins or not
Essays & reportage
The anti–industrial relations club
Frank Bongiorno
10 November 2015
The rise of the New Right helped keep Labor in office for over a decade, writes
Frank Bongiorno
in this extract from his new book
Books & arts
The congenial candidate
Norman Abjorensen
21 September 2015
Books
| Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message?
Norman Abjorensen
reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay
National affairs
Fighting old battles, losing the war
Peter Browne
14 July 2015
The Coalition has been fighting on the same terrain for nearly two years, writes
Peter Browne
, but it hasn’t shaken Labor’s lead in the polls
National affairs
What should Labor stand for?
Geoff Gallop
4 July 2014
The best way forward for Labor doesn’t fit well with structures inherited from the past, writes
Geoff Gallop
National affairs
Doing the dirty work
Frank Bongiorno
19 February 2014
An attack on the unions won’t necessarily have the expected political impact