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• Politics & policy


• Dealing with the Senate’s climate impasse
• 09 February 2010

• The Greens and government should at least be able to agree that some carbon price is better than none, writes Richard Denniss


• Missing voters
• 22 January 2010

• With four elections in twelve months it’s likely that allegations about electoral fraud will surge in 2010. Brian Costar looks at two court cases that exposed a striking lack of evidence behind the claims


• The year’s elections: a form guide
• 21 January 2010

• Four elections, two changes of government. Peter Brent sticks his neck out in this guide to the 2010 electoral landscape

• Europe


• Fighting chances
• 19 January 2010

• Labour might lose the next British election, but will the Conservatives win, asks Peter Browne


• Tony’s war
• 15 December 2009

• Tony Blair came clean on the BBC on Sunday morning, but didn’t say a word about the right of citizens to have their leaders speak truthfully, writes Frank Bongiorno


• Who’s afraid of Margaret Thatcher?
• 25 November 2009

• The Iron Lady casts a long shadow, as David Cameron is finding in the lead-up to the next British election, writes Frank Bongiorno in London

• The Americas


• Don’t underestimate Obama
• 21 January 2010

• 2010 could be even tougher for Barack Obama, but things could turn around quickly, writes Lesley Russell


• The Monday morning after
• 10 November 2009

• Can Democrats in the US Senate use the same techniques as their colleagues in the House to turn healthcare reforms into law, asks Lesley Russell


• Fortune favours the brave
• 29 October 2009

• The prognosis for healthcare reform in the United States is improving by the day, writes Lesley Russell in Washington

• Essays & reportage


• The myth of CPR
• 21 January 2010

• How did such a poorly proven intervention become a routine end to many people’s lives, asks Ken Hillman in this extract from his recent book


• Big promises from Big Pharma
• 09 January 2010

• GlaxoSmithKline created waves last year with a promise of cheaper drugs and patent waivers in developing countries. In this special report Qudsiya Karrim in Johannesburg looks at what the pledge means in practice


• The writing on the wall
• 06 January 2010

• The global financial crisis has magnified the growing oversupply of Australian wine. To go forward, the industry might have to take a step backward, writes Charles Gent

• Reviews


• Complications
• 04 February 2010

• CINEMA | The Australian film industry might not be as stricken as some commentators suggest. Sylvia Lawson looks back at a year’s output


• Happy birthday, minister
• 02 February 2010

• TELEVISION | Yes Minister turns thirty this month. Terry Lane looks back at one of the great British TV comedies


• Always look on the bright side
• 09 December 2009

• BOOKS | Brett Evans reviews Barbara Ehrenreich’s book about the dark side of positive thinking, and how it helped create the global financial crisis

• Asia & the Pacific


• Identity politics
• 20 January 2010

• Attacks on Christian churches in Malaysia tell us more about shifting political faultlines than about religious attitudes in this multi-ethnic, multi-faith society, writes Amrita Malhi


• Winners and losers in Sri Lanka’s long war
• 13 November 2009

• Sri Lanka has been left deeply divided by its long-running civil war, in which China played a crucial but little-known role, writes Larry Marshall


• India’s toughest contest
• 01 November 2009

• Hope and perseverance drive the enormous number of young Indians with ambitions to work in government, reports Kate Sullivan

• Media


• One-liners
• 10 November 2009

• The reporting of Kevin Rudd’s climate speech demonstrated the failings of the news media, writes Geoffrey Barker


• Why the Fairfax board needs media experience
• 27 October 2009

• The lack of key skills and experience is having an impact on this important institution, argues board candidate Gerard Noonan

• From the archive


• Welcome to the world
• 30 September 2009

• Barack Obama made a strategic choice by hosting the G20 in a resurgent Pittsburgh. Morag Fraser visits a city in transition


• Battle over a war
• 02 June 2009

• For three decades the Australian War Memorial has been the focus of a struggle between two ways of knowing the past, writes Dean Ashenden

• The economy


• What’s not to like?
• 06 January 2010

• International support is growing for a low but effective tax on financial transactions. John Langmore looks at an idea whose time has come


• The G20’s missed opportunity
• 24 August 2009

• Australia and the west missed an opportunity when they largely ignored a United Nations report on the financial crisis, writes Ross Buckley

• Africa & the Middle East


• Face to face
• 05 October 2009

• Despite first world technology, humans still share an intimate co-existence with nature in Kenya, especially during a drought, writes Xan Rice


• Radicalising Somalia
• 06 August 2009

• Five Melbourne men arrested this week were alleged to have links with the radical Somali organisation, al-Shabaab. Peter Browne looks at how international involvement in Somalia in recent years has helped fuel the growth of militancy

• Podcasts


• Great expectations
• 02 December 2009

• Chrissy Sharp and Michael Williams talk to Peter Clarke about Melbourne’s new literary hub, the Wheeler Centre


• Authenticity and the ABC
• 16 November 2009

• Six months into the job, the ABC’s director of news, Kate Torney, talks to Peter Clarke about where the national broadcaster is headed