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6 days ago · National affairs Staking out the healthcare battleground Mike Steketee 17 January 2025 Mediscare Mark II could grab the election headlines, but the real reform action is elsewhere The view from elsewhere The populist phantom Larry M. Bartels 18 January 2025 Democracy erodes from the top National affairs Expectations matter Peter Brent 16 January 2025 But not necessarily in the way pundits ...
Why did Australia reject the Voice? • Inside Story
Jun 28, 2024 · In The End of Settlement: Why the 2023 Referendum Failed Damien Freeman also tells a story of missed opportunities for dialogue. But Freeman traces the failure back to the Referendum Council, which assisted Indigenous Australians to establish a consensus position (expressed in the 2017 Uluru Statement) but did nothing “to engage with the range of different perspectives that non-Indigenous ...
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National affairs Slippery slopes Chris Bonnor 26 August 2024 NAPLAN’s scorecard has been back in the news, but could those test results be hiding a more important failure? National affairs Manufacturing’s security blanket Saul Eslake 26 August 2024 Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured …
Staying in the room • Inside Story
For much if not all of Australia’s history, the foreign ministry has been a place where over-talented cabinet colleagues and defeated leadership rivals can be parked in the hope they find the job an interesting enough distraction from bread-and-butter, vote-winning domestic policies.
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Dec 23, 2024 · Essays & reportage Beyond words Iain Topliss 18 December 2024 Whether comical or conceptual, political or geographic, Saul Steinberg’s drawings extend the viewer’s horizons Books & arts History’s hinge Jon Richardson 9 December 2024 How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?
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Is grown-up government enough? • Inside Story
Sep 3, 2024 · Twenty twenty-three was the pivotal year of the Albanese government’s first term. Two things were defining. The first was Albanese’s March meeting in San Diego with British prime minister Rishi Sunak and American president Joe Biden to put flesh on the bones of the three nation’s AUKUS agreement.
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Essays & reportage Staying in the room Hamish McDonald 21 October 2024 Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies? Essays & reportage White lies, archival truths and R.J.L. Hawke Michael Piggott 17 October 2024 What the record reveals about the future prime minister and the ornamental pond Essays & reportage Monumental silence Dean ...
A selection of recent Inside Story review essays • Inside Story
Donald Horne, citizen intellectual A compelling biography captures the trajectory of the man who named the lucky country, writes Frank Bongiorno Buckle and strain In probing the shortcomings of George Orwell’s biographers has Anna Funder fallen into traps of her own, asks Patrick Mullins Stolen moments Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers ...
The strange career of the great Australian silence - Inside Story
Nov 15, 2022 · “The history I would like to see written would bring into the main flow of its narrative the life and times of men like David Unaipon, Albert Namatjira, Robert Tudawali, Durmugam, Douglas Nicholls, Dexter Daniels, and many others.Not to scrape up significance for them but because they typify so vividly the other side of a story over which the great Australian silence reigns; the story of the ...