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- Talking about our population
The election campaign showed how we don’t seem able to have a rational debate about population, writes Peter Mares
- 01 September 2010
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- Doing it differently
The sudden rise to influence of the independent MPs is a challenge to the two-party system and how it’s reported, writes Peter Browne
- 27 August 2010
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- Arctic oil: the battle begins
In every generation one issue comes to symbolise the wider battle to protect the natural world. This could be it, writes Michael Jacobs
- 02 September 2010
Politics & policy
- Victoria’s unexpected minority
- 03 September 2010
In Victoria, Steve Bracks’s minority government transformed a knife-edge win into electoral longevity and parliamentary reform, write Brian Costar and David Hayward
- South Australia’s cabinet experiment
- 03 September 2010
Minority government in South Australia produced a novel solution that challenged the way the Westminster system has worked in Australia, writes Norman Abjorensen
- Rob Oakeshott: Why I became an independent
- 25 August 2010
In this interview with Terry Lane, first broadcast on ABC Radio National’s The National Interest in 2002, Rob Oakeshott discusses why he joined the Nationals, and why he left
Essays & reportage
- Remembering refugees
- 20 August 2010
The parties are making promises like there’s no tomorrow and policy like there’s no yesterday, writes Klaus Neumann
- Safe Labor? On the ground, Denison isn’t so straightforward
- 05 August 2010
This Tasmanian seat might hold a surprise for Labor and the Coalition, wrote Natasha Cica during the campaign
- The rising tide of border security
- 28 July 2010
Border security has complex effects, many of them unanticipated, some of them pernicious and potentially destabilising, and some of them irreversible, writes Peter Chambers
Europe
- Labour’s leadership marathon reaches Manchester
- 11 August 2010
Julia Gillard replaced Kevin Rudd almost overnight. In Britain, writes Frank Bongiorno, the leadership transition is taking quite a lot longer
- Party patriotism
- 18 July 2010
The World Cup is over, but it left a tentatively flag-waving Germany divided and unsettled, writes Daniel Nethery in Berlin
- Peace or ceasefire?
- 01 July 2010
Is the thaw in relations between Poland and Russia sustainable? The Polish presidential election campaign and recent trends in Russian foreign policy highlight the key factors in play, writes John Besemeres
Asia & the Pacific
- Thailand’s bad men and the challenges for Abhisit Vejjajiva
- 27 August 2010
Thailand has dropped out of the headlines but the long-term struggle for political control continues, write Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly
- Uneasy neighbours
- 19 August 2010
A disputed border continues to fuel tension between China and India, but there are also good reasons for better relations, writes Louise Merrington
- The US reads the riot act to Pakistan
- 29 July 2010
Will Pakistan continue its longstanding policy of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, asks Sandy Gordon
Reviews
- Playing the game
- 18 August 2010
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews The Ghost Writer and Animal Kingdom
- A close reading of North Korea
- 05 August 2010
BOOKS | There’s something very different about North Korea. James Reilly reviews a partly successful attempt to understand why
- Arguing for peace
- 22 July 2010
DOCUMENTARY | Sylvia Lawson reviews Hope in a Slingshot, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
The Americas
- Is it all over for climate change policy in the United States?
- 29 July 2010
Not quite, writes Michael Jacobs. But the battle will be a tough one
- García’s Peru
- 21 July 2010
Australia’s embassy is reopening in Lima because Peru’s internal conflict is considered to be over. But the impact of the violence lives on, writes Elizabeth Bryer
- Legacy on the line
- 20 July 2010
Barack Obama’s policies are starting to fall into place. So why is his approval rating so low, asks Lesley Russell
Media
- The copyright cops
- 15 July 2010
When it comes to the prices they pay for copyrighted music, Australian consumers are being stung everywhere from the gym to the pub, writes Ben Eltham
- Nine-tenths of the law
- 03 June 2010
Sydney’s media moguls took off the gloves on a winter’s night in 1960 – and the Packers lost, writes Rodney Tiffen
From the archive
- Will Robin Hood ride again?
- 26 March 2010
Pressure is growing for a small but potentially very effective global financial transactions tax. But where is Australia in the debate, asks Ross Buckley
- We aren’t refugees
- 30 June 2009
For people on Kiribati and Tuvalu facing increasing climate pressures, the description “refugee” has too many negative connotations, write Jane McAdam and Maryanne Loughry
Podcasts
- “If you can reach that point of almost nonchalance in playing, that’s a different level of creativity again”
- 30 June 2010
John Bell talks to Peter Clarke about acting, King Lear and the Bell Shakespeare Company
- Digging up a scandal
- 18 June 2010
The story of how two journalists unearthed the Securency scandal shows what would be lost if newspapers stop funding investigative journalism. They talked to Peter Clarke
Africa & the Middle East
- Gaza: symbol and flashpoint
- 10 June 2010
Can the Obama administration, bogged down in Afghanistan, rise to the challenge, asks Sumantra Bose
- A taste of democracy on the Nile
- 06 May 2010
Amid preparations for Sudan’s controversial election last month, Xan Rice met a Sudanese man from Sydney who was looking well beyond election day
The economy
- Reclaiming our financial sectors
- 22 June 2010
The Australian government should swing its support behind the growing international campaign for a banking levy, writes Ross Buckley, and then it should join the push for a financial transactions tax
- Euclidean economics
- 16 March 2010
Kelvin Rowley profiles the leading figure in postwar economics, Paul Samuelson
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