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Alive to every pulse beat
Laurie Oakes
13 August 2018
More than anyone, Warren Denning was responsible for initiating the ABC’s coverage of Canberra politics
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Listening for the future
Deborah Jordan
13 August 2018
Nettie Palmer was a prolific and finely honed critic of Australian life and literature
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Like Uber, but for politics
Dominic Kelly
9 August 2018
The false promise of digital democracy
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The hospital for bare life
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?
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Fighting words
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…
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Citizenship elegy
Antje Missbach
31 July 2018
A social scientist goes in search of an elusive Australian passport
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In search of Cinquevalli
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
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Getting personal about cancer
Ian Olver
12 July 2018
New research tools are revolutionising cancer therapies
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Speaking into the silence
Drusilla Modjeska
2 July 2018
Review essay
| Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present
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Rising to the challenge of inequality
Andrew Leigh
15 June 2018
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have used new data to track inequality and sharpen the choices we face
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Cooking the books
Bruce Buchan
14 June 2018
Have we lost sight of who Captain Cook really was?
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Royal drama, with variations
Susan Lever
6 June 2018
A wedding, four plays and a TV series — do the British have something to teach us about scrutinising power?
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Ancestors’ words
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
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Looking for trouble
Margaret Simons
18 May 2018
Four months after the summer troubles, a reporter heads to Melbourne’s western fringe in search of “African gangs”
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China and Australia’s fifth icy age
Graeme Dobell
10 May 2018
Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture
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Untangling the hair trade
Assa Doron & Robin Jeffrey
28 April 2018
Extract
| Discarded hair makes a circuitous journey from India to the West, gathering value along the way
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The lost portrait
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
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When Chifley met Nehru, and the Commonwealth’s transformation began
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
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When did I grow up?
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
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Murder in bohemia
Gideon Haigh
12 April 2018
Extract
| Hidden behind the scandal of Mollie Dean’s death was a story worth telling
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Invisible women
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
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Her childhood friends
Sue Taffe
28 March 2018
Extract
| A new biography probes the remarkable life of the Indigenous rights campaigner Mary Montgomerie Bennett
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Face to face with journalism’s future
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?
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Haunted country
Billy Griffiths
23 March 2018
Extract
| In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England
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Between the covers
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
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Arms and the mandate
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
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The chronicler we deserve?
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
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The #MeToo generations
Jane Goodall
12 February 2018
Can the campaign encompass vastly different experiences?
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The undiplomatic diplomat
Alan Fewster
8 February 2018
Extract
| Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy
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You are no longer the product
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
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