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Spiky questions remain for AUKUS proponents
Sam Roggeveen
19 March 2024
There is an alternative, but the debate looks like taking some time to shift
Books & Arts
Virtual anxiety
Nick Haslam
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
International
Mr Modi goes to Bollywood… and beyond
Robin Jeffrey
15 March 2024
How India’s filmmakers have tracked the national mood
Correspondents
Which way will independent voters jump?
Lesley Russell
15 March 2024
The real issues in the US presidential race have been swamped by the big news
Books & Arts
“An unfathomable, shapeshifting thing”
Zora Simic
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Essays & Reportage
Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion
Murray Goot
12 March 2024
Is the
Australian
’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
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National Affairs
National Affairs
Gap years
Michael Dillon
8 March 2024
Obfuscation and delay are blocking efforts to tackle Indigenous disadvantage
National Affairs
Dunkley’s Rorschach test
Peter Brent
1 March 2024
It’s the interpretation rather than the result that will have real-world effects
National Affairs
How’s he travelling?
Peter Brent
22 February 2024
It depends on how you ask the question
National Affairs
Collateral damage
Hamish McDonald
15 February 2024
Yang Hengjun’s sentencing shows a Chinese security apparatus largely oblivious to foreign relations concerns
National Affairs
Gramsci’s message for Anthony Albanese
Frank Bongiorno
27 January 2024
How the government can build on what’s been a good month
Essays & Reportage
Essays & Reportage
Ben Chifley’s pipe
Anne-Marie Condé
7 March 2024
A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows
Essays & Reportage
Red flags
Ebony Nilsson
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
Essays & Reportage
How journalism should be done
Peter Martin
30 January 2024
A former colleague pays tribute to longstanding
Inside Story
contributor Tim Colebatch
Essays & Reportage
John Curtin’s potato
Anne-Marie Condé
26 January 2024
A gift to a prime minister gives a glimpse of the life of an Australian toiler
Essays & Reportage
Modi’s expatriate army
Hamish McDonald
20 December 2023
Western leaders are distancing themselves from the Hindu nationalism popular in some sections of India’s diaspora
Books & Arts
Books & Arts
The free market’s brilliant frontman
John Edwards
11 March 2024
Milton Friedman brought wit and energy to his self-appointed task, but how influential did he prove to be?
Books & Arts
Victors’ justice?
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
4 March 2024
A major new book revisits the moral and legal ambiguities of the Tokyo war crimes trial
Books & Arts
A dynamic of acceptance and revolt
Paul Gillen
27 February 2024
Why the extraordinary Jack Lindsay deserves to be better known
Books & Arts
“Am I the one who’s missing something?”
Nick Haslam
27 February 2024
A returned soldier’s belief in American virtue and progress is shaken
Books & Arts
Voices off
Tim Rowse
15 February 2024
What does the experience of the Ngaanyatjarra community tells us about the bipartisan promise of regional Voices?
International
International
Too little, too late
Tony Walker
11 March 2024
In the tortured history of America’s relationship with Israel there has scarcely been a more fraught moment
International
Prescient president
Mike Steketee
8 March 2024
On the Middle East, renewable energy, American power and much else, Jimmy Carter was ahead of his time
International
Russia’s war against Ukraine: a longer view
Mark Edele
22 February 2024
With the full-scale invasion entering its third year, the stakes remain high
International
Life and death in China’s rustbelt
Antonia Finnane
22 February 2024
How did this candid drama series make it past the censors?
International
Obama’a healthcare legacy
Lesley Russell
12 February 2024
The Affordable Care Act really is a big deal — but is it a winner for Joe Biden?
Correspondents
Correspondents
Lord Salisbury’s message for the housing ombudsman
Peter Mares
20 February 2024
… and the housing ombudsman’s message for Australia
Correspondents
Jokowi’s high-wire succession
Liam Gammon
14 February 2024
Prabowo Subianto’s likely electoral hole-in-one this week holds risks not only for his enemies
Correspondents
Lost in the post
Peter Mares
12 February 2024
Britain’s Post Office scandal, kept alive by dogged journalism and a new drama series, still has a long way to run
Correspondents
“Never again”?
Klaus Neumann
6 February 2024
What’s behind the biggest protests in recent German history?
Correspondents
The feckless four
Nic Maclellan
2 February 2024
What do governments led by Rishi Sunak, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron and Kim Jong-un have in common?