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Essays & Reportage The correspondent who saw too much  Melissa Roberts 3 October 2022 It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops Books & Arts Days of hope Sara Dowse 17 December 2021 Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s National Affairs Revolving doors and poisoned chalices Sara Dowse 22 September 2021 Female politicians are no longer rare, and the prospect of a female PM nowhere near as challenging. What seems to matter is how they get there Books & Arts Death in Shanghai Linda Jaivin 16 September 2021 How Xu Shangzhen’s suicide gripped a city

National Affairs Shadow pandemic Paul McGorrery and Marilyn McMahon 2 July 2021 Proposed NSW legisation focuses a new lens on domestic abuse National Affairs A certain class of consent Alecia Simmonds 18 June 2021 Is a concept drawn from contract law the best test of sexual assault? Books & Arts Gloves off Carolyn Collins 5 June 2021 Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups? International Roe v Wade v Trump Lesley Russell 1 June 2021 The one-term president and his allies have had an outsized impact on abortion rights

National Affairs Then and now Sara Dowse 17 March 2021 A half-century’s perspective on this week’s protests National Affairs A place of greater safety Jane Goodall 16 March 2021 Does the media’s stress on “rage” really capture what’s driving the resurgent women’s movement? Essays & Reportage Status and consent Rachel Doyle 15 March 2021 Extract | Are deeply hierarchical professions especially prone to workplace harassment? National Affairs Build back fairer Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths and Tom Crowley 8 March 2021 For many women, “Covid normal” isn’t working