All’s not necessarily well in the classroom even when it ends well, writes Dean Ashenden
17 Oct 12Two suburbs, 167 lives: how the Life Chances study turned twenty-one
In 1990 a team of researchers began tracking a group of babies born in two inner suburbs of Melbourne. Their latest results paint a complex picture of obstacles, opportunities and resilience, writes Melissa Sweet
08 Oct 12Across the African divide
Ralph Johnstone meets the people at the sharp end of the complex challenges facing young refugees from Africa
12 Sep 12Written back into history
Nearly fifty years after her family left Cape Town’s apartheid-era District Six, Bonita Bennett is helping rescue the stories of its former residents, writes Larry Schwartz
A sense of possibility in Alice Springs
After six months of living in Alice Springs, Eleanor Hogan’s employer folded and she was offered an all-expenses-paid relocation back to Sydney. But she was in no hurry to leave
27 Aug 12Six days on Nauru
If federal government legislation goes through this week, asylum seekers will once again be sent to Nauru and Manus Island. Michael Gordon, the first journalist to gain unrestricted access to the Nauru detention centre when it was part of the Howard government’s Pacific Solution, recalls his visit in early 2005
14 Aug 12Labor’s next generation
Reports of Labor’s death have been grossly exaggerated, writes Dennis Altman
09 Aug 12Yes, women can have it all… on one condition
… You might need to be a university professor. Helen Hayward looks at what Anne-Marie Slaughter said in her essay for the Atlantic, and how it was received
12 Jul 12William Chidley’s answer to the sex problem
Born to a free-thinking family in Melbourne around 1860, William Chidley became an energetic campaigner with some surprisingly respectable supporters, writes Frank Bongiorno in this extract from his new book
04 Jul 12Good at gardening, hopeless at engineering
Restless innovation saved Australian schools from their structural problems, writes Dean Ashenden. But now the strains are well and truly showing
13 Jun 12Getting under their skin
Frank Bongiorno traces the debate about blackness from Arthur Upfield to Andrew Bolt
07 Jun 12Overtested, overtreated and over here
The principles behind an American campaign to reduce unnecessary and often expensive medical interventions are gaining support in Australia, writes Melissa Sweet
04 Jun 12Dick Casey’s forgotten people
Over sixty years ago, an innovative political campaign offered Australian voters a coherent political philosophy, writes Stephen Mills
31 May 12Looking for an island circuit-breaker
Although the forestry agreement is looking shaky, innovative projects are flourishing in Tasmania, writes Natasha Cica. Strategic assistance could speed the move to a different kind of economy
24 May 12Citizenship for beginners
The Howard government made it harder for some nationalities to become citizens, and Labor has made it worse, writes Kerry Ryan
16 Apr 12Life; London; this moment of June
Although she undoubtedly drew on her own life, Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels are not essays about herself, writes Jill Kitson. Woolf wrote about “life and death, sanity and insanity, through the shimmer of thoughts”
13 Apr 12French gender: It’s not (all) about sex
Margaret A’Beckett introduces a radical new explanation of how gender works in French
11 Apr 12Medicare goes local in search of “disruptive innovation”
Can local networks pull off the healthcare reforms that have eluded state and national governments, asks Melissa Sweet
04 Apr 12Eleven media myths, and why they matter
Self-interest underlies much of the debate about the Australian news media, writes Sally Young, and it’s threatening the future of quality journalism
03 Apr 12“Sitting on a tractor, reading a book”
Ken Inglis and Bill Gammage pay tribute to the distinguished historian, and occasional Inside Story contributor, Hank Nelson, who died earlier this month
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