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- We need to talk about COAG
The process has been hampered by a breakdown in trust between the Commonwealth and the states, writes Paul Kildea
- 19 January 2012
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- The British ensign
Australia’s attachment to a flag with the Union Jack in the top corner puts it in odd company, writes Henry Reynolds
- 24 January 2012
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- Plum pudding
Brian McFarlane reviews a huge collection of the correspondence of the very prolific P.G. Wodehouse
- 18 January 2012
Politics & policy
- All politics isn’t necessarily local
- 10 January 2012
Closest to the people it may be, but local government is unlikely to make it into the constitution anytime soon, writes Andrew Lynch
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea
- 21 December 2011
The weekend’s boat tragedy makes the need for regional cooperation more urgent than ever, writes Savitri Taylor. The good news is that real progress has already been made
- Not drowning, waving
- 16 December 2011
Rob Oakeshott still has a lot he wants to get done, he tells Peter Browne
- What Durban revealed about climate’s shifting allegiances
- 14 December 2011
Canada’s reversal on Kyoto won’t undermine the sense that the Durban climate conference achieved more than many expected, writes Michael Jacobs
- Now for the real climate action
- 09 December 2011
Fergus Green outlines the next steps Australia must take
- The Labor way
- 07 December 2011
The Labor conference exposed the party’s – and the government’s – weaknesses, writes Frank Bongiorno
- Kiribati’s policy for “migration with dignity”
- 04 December 2011
At the global climate negotiations in Durban, some island nations are discussing climate displacement. Nic Maclellan looks at the response from one Pacific government
Essays & reportage
- Havel’s legacy
- 09 January 2012
Václav Havel, who died in December, was Orwell’s true successor, writes Jane Goodall
- At the pointy end of the bayonet conundrum
- 16 December 2011
Graeme Dobell looks at humanitarian intervention in theory and practice
- The everyday politics of perpetual electioneering
- 08 December 2011
Must Australian politicians work “tirelessly” for their communities or face electoral oblivion? James Panichi looks for the middle ground
- Is killing Taliban a good idea?
- 07 December 2011
Intensified military activity has failed, argue John Braithwaite and Ali Wardak. It’s time for a ceasefire
- Unemployed and wrapped in red tape
- 02 December 2011
The government has created a giant job-search industry caught between competition and over-regulation, writes Elisabeth Wynhausen
- “It’s like when a patriarch dies, and the will is read, and everyone starts squabbling”
- 29 November 2011
Mental health had a big win in this year’s budget – and that’s when the fights began, writes Melissa Sweet in this joint investigation with Crikey
- Learning in both worlds
- 27 October 2011
Despite the international evidence, the Northern Territory has discouraged bilingual programs in its schools, writes Lisa Waller. But there are early signs of another shift in attitude, in both Darwin and Canberra
Media, books & the arts
- Old-fashioned politics
- 12 January 2012
Sylvia Lawson reviews The Iron Lady and The Ides of March
- Real-life melodrama
- 12 January 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s
- Among Asia’s giants
- 21 December 2011
With the right leadership Burma could undoubtedly use its position between China and India to its advantage, writes Nicholas Farrelly
- A dog of a pamphlet
- 21 December 2011
A new series of short books is fighting the wrong kind of war, writes Brett Evans
- At sea with Einstein
- 16 December 2011
Tim Thwaites reviews an oblique introduction to one of the great figures of the twentieth century
- Sameness, likeness and match
- 15 December 2011
Iain Topliss looks at why we don’t — and shouldn’t — speak the same language, and how Russian has no single word for blue
- Dissolving borders
- 15 December 2011
Three books, one old, two new, offer different ways of thinking about cinema, writes Sylvia Lawson
World briefing
- North Korea’s Great Successor and his regional connections
- 29 December 2011
Kim Jong-un’s accession comes at a time of change in the region, underlining the need for a nuanced response from Western countries, writes Tessa Morris-Suzuki
- Setbacks at home, successes abroad: the mixed fortunes of Vladimir Putin
- 22 December 2011
A resentful Putin means further strains in East–West relations and a renewed effort to lock in Russia’s western neighbours, writes John Besemeres
- Putin’s Ceausescu moment
- 09 December 2011
The warning signs rose to a new pitch during the election campaign, writes John Besemeres, and now Vladimir Putin will be looking at ways to re-tighten his grip
- Broadcasting revolution
- 06 December 2011
Radio allowed Algerians to enter into a “vast network of information… a world where things happen… where forces act,” wrote Frantz Fanon. Daniel Nethery surveys the work of the controversial Martinique-born writer, who died fifty years ago today, and its resonances in the Arab Spring
- Poland’s EU presidency: drawing the short straw
- 05 December 2011
The mood has become a little anxious at the headquarters of the Occidental Club, reports John Besemeres
- Can Durban deliver?
- 29 November 2011
These two weeks might turn out to be more interesting than expected, writes Michael Jacobs. The stakes are certainly high enough
- A Palestinian state within a year?
- 19 October 2011
Although the diplomatic task is daunting, Europe should take up the challenge, writes James L. Richardson
Correspondents
- Politics grips Pakistan
- 19 January 2012
Heading towards a first round of national elections later this year, Pakistan’s politics and external relations are in flux, writes Alicia Mollaun in Islamabad
- Margaret Thatcher, between myth and politics
- 12 January 2012
A sympathetic film portrayal of Britain’s most divisive modern prime minister fits a broader mood of reappraisal of her years in power, says David Hayes
- What they see and what they hear
- 16 December 2011
A growing number of Chinese are bothered by the gap between reality and the way the media portrays society and politics, reports Duncan Hewitt. And the media itself is starting to reflect that concern
- The intimate megacity
- 07 December 2011
London’s mayoral election might be overshadowed in 2012 by royal and Olympic pageants, but it’s more revealing of the city’s heartbeat, says David Hayes
- How different is Morocco?
- 30 November 2011
Last week’s election helps illuminate where Morocco fits into the Arab Spring, writes Norman Abjorensen
- A storm in a teacup
- 30 November 2011
Norm Kelly in Wellington analyses the National Party’s election win
- China debates its “moral compass”
- 21 November 2011
The death of two-year-old Yue Yue continues to generate soul-searching in the Chinese media, reports Duncan Hewitt
From the archive
- Fonts we can believe in
- 23 November 2010
BOOKS | Great typefaces combine the banal and the beautiful, according to one designer. Richard Johnstone reviews an engrossing account of their vast and ever-increasing variety and uses
- Large questions about a big corporation
- 07 July 2010
BOOKS | “If it stays humble and moves with the swiftness of a fox, it will be difficult to catch.” Jock Given reviews Ken Auletta’s Googled
- Shoulder-deep in the entrails
- 28 June 2010
“I pull out my notebook, merge into a cluster of pundits and sidle through.” Shane Maloney was in Parliament House as the coup unfolded
- The strange career of the Australian conscience
- 10 June 2010
Dean Ashenden traces the collaboration between anthropologists Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen, “bearers, shapers and captives of the Australian conscience”
- My mother’s story
- 07 May 2010
In this extract from her new book, Maria Tumarkin recounts the events that unfolded after news of war reached the Ukrainian village of Dubovyazovka
- 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
- Suburban mayhem
- 17 June 2009
The Slap captures contemporary Australian life? Andrew Lynch isn’t so sure
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