The parties are making promises like there’s no tomorrow and policy like there’s no yesterday, writes Klaus Neumann
20 Aug 10Safe Labor? On the ground, Denison isn’t so straightforward
This Tasmanian seat might hold a surprise for Labor and the Coalition, wrote Natasha Cica during the campaign
05 Aug 10The rising tide of border security
Border security has complex effects, many of them unanticipated, some of them pernicious and potentially destabilising, and some of them irreversible, writes Peter Chambers
28 Jul 10Drug companies take a dip
When GlaxoSmithKline announced a series of initiatives to improve access to drugs in least-developed countries, its most radical proposal was for a “patent pool” to generate research into neglected diseases. Meanwhile, Unitaid was designing its own pool, focused on AIDS research. In Nairobi Xan Rice looks at progress on the two pools and GSK’s other proposals
14 Jul 10Two-up, one down
The law seemed to fail Boonie Hilt, a thirty-six year old Aboriginal man, but there were small victories along the way, writes Gillian Cowlishaw
07 Jul 10Shoulder-deep in the entrails
“I pull out my notebook, merge into a cluster of pundits and sidle through.” Shane Maloney was in Parliament House as the coup unfolded
28 Jun 10The biographer and the biographee
The prime minister was angry. So what did he say? asks Jock Given
23 Jun 10The strange career of the Australian conscience
Dean Ashenden traces the collaboration between anthropologists Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen, “bearers, shapers and captives of the Australian conscience”
10 Jun 10Six days on Nauru
Tony Abbott has raised the possibility of a revived Pacific Solution and Nauru’s high commissioner says the island nation would consider a request. Michael Gordon, the first journalist to gain unrestricted access to the Nauru detention centre, recalls his visit in early 2005
04 Jun 10Listening to profits
As the disturbing growth in treatment of children for bipolar disorder shows, psychiatry’s overreliance on drugs – and especially newer, less effective and less well-tested drugs – is needlessly putting patients at risk, writes psychiatrist Nicholas Z. Rosenlicht in San Francisco. And Adelaide-based psychiatrist Peter Parry looks at the Australian implications
12 May 10
