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Essays & Reportage Laurie Oakes 13 August 2018 More than anyone, Warren Denning was responsible for initiating the ABC’s coverage of Canberra politics
Essays & Reportage Deborah Jordan 13 August 2018 Nettie Palmer was a prolific and finely honed critic of Australian life and literature Essays & Reportage Dominic Kelly 9 August 2018 The false promise of digital democracy Essays & Reportage Annabel Stafford 9 August 2018 A visit to the site of Wyndham’s Native Hospital prompts the question: what does it mean to live outside the protection of the state? Essays & Reportage Peter Cochrane 2 August 2018 Extract | As the first world war approached, anxiety grew about the vulnerability of Australia to attack from the north. A key role was played by the man who would be the…
Essays & Reportage Antje Missbach 31 July 2018 A social scientist goes in search of an elusive Australian passport
Essays & Reportage David Hayes 14 July 2018 On the centenary of his death, it’s time for a supreme world-crossing entertainer to take his place in history Essays & Reportage Ian Olver 12 July 2018 New research tools are revolutionising cancer therapies Essays & Reportage Drusilla Modjeska 2 July 2018 Review essay | Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present Essays & Reportage Andrew Leigh 15 June 2018 Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have used new data to track inequality and sharpen the choices we face
Essays & Reportage Bruce Buchan 14 June 2018 Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was?
Essays & Reportage Susan Lever 6 June 2018 A wedding, four plays and a TV series — do the British have something to teach us about scrutinising power? Essays & Reportage Anna Haebich, Darryl Kickett and Margaret Culbong 30 May 2018 Extract | A research project is exploring an extraordinary trove of Nyungar letters in Western Australia’s Aboriginal archive Essays & Reportage Margaret Simons 18 May 2018 Four months after the summer troubles, a reporter heads to Melbourne’s western fringe in search of “African gangs” Essays & Reportage Graeme Dobell 10 May 2018 Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture
Essays & Reportage Assa Doron & Robin Jeffrey 28 April 2018 Extract | Discarded hair makes a circuitous journey from India to the West, gathering value along the way
Essays & Reportage Sylvia Martin 23 April 2018 A single image can open up an unexplored part of a subject’s life, writes the biographer of writer and activist Aileen Palmer Essays & Reportage David Fettling 18 April 2018 The Australian prime minister knew that any attempt to resurrect the old British Empire in Asia was doomed to failure Essays & Reportage Deborah Cheetham 18 April 2018 Extract | It’s turned out to be a continuing process, says the composer of Pecan Summer, the story of the Cummeragunja walk-off Essays & Reportage Gideon Haigh 12 April 2018 Extract | Hidden behind the scandal of Mollie Dean’s death was a story worth telling
Essays & Reportage Michelle Scott Tucker 8 April 2018 The story of Elizabeth Macarthur, a driving force in early New South Wales, highlights gaps in the story of colonial Australia
Essays & Reportage Sue Taffe 28 March 2018 Extract | A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett Essays & Reportage James Panichi 26 March 2018 Politico’s takeover of a sleepy weekly at Europe’s political epicentre promised great things. So what happened when the big stories began to break? Essays & Reportage Billy Griffiths 23 March 2018 Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England Essays & Reportage Diana Bagnall 20 March 2018 The problems at the Park Street headquarters of Bauer Media are a microcosm of an industry slowly adjusting to a blizzard of change
Essays & Reportage Tony Blackshield 12 March 2018 Efforts to water down gun control in the United States have relied on a shift in how a majority of Supreme Court justices view two thorny constitutional issues
Essays & Reportage Matthew Ricketson & Rodney Tiffen 22 February 2018 Michael Wolff’s book owes a large debt to the ethically grounded work of the journalists he professes to disdain Essays & Reportage Jane Goodall 12 February 2018 Can the campaign encompass vastly different experiences? Essays & Reportage Alan Fewster 8 February 2018 Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy Essays & Reportage Tom Greenwell 6 February 2018 Dutch news site De Correspondent represents a radical challenge to traditional journalistic practice. Now, it’s about to launch in the United States