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5 天之前 · 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 ...
Essays & reportage • Category - Inside Story
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 ...
Man in the middle • Inside Story
The view from elsewhere The populist phantom Larry M. Bartels 18 January 2025 Democracy erodes from the top 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 National affairs Expectations matter Peter Brent 16 January 2025 But not necessarily in the way pundits ...
Making their political mark • Inside Story
Some institutions have as their very mission to shape understanding of political memory. That is true of the National Archives Australia. Its eventually unsuccessful legal battle with Jenny Hocking over release of the Palace Letters is a reminder of how reliant we are on access to original documents if we are to undertake honest, well-informed appraisal of our political history.
Zealots of the reading room • Inside Story
2024年12月6日 · I didn’t really know what I was looking for, but with me that’s usually how these things begin. I was at the National Library of Australia in Canberra and in front of me were the two volumes of Manning Clark’s Select Documents in Australian History, published in 1950 and 1955.Turning the pages, I was thinking how groundbreaking they were in their day for having brought historical ...
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 ...
Opening doors in Central Australia • Inside Story
The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary F.W. Albrecht, his former student Lorna Wilson, and Lorna’s son Barry. Albrecht, who had come to Australia in 1925, worked in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the 1950s. There he established an enlightened and culturally sensitive ...
A steady path to sovereignty? • Inside Story
2023年10月6日 · The Yes/No alignments of First Nations Australians may not be an accurate guide to their differing views about sovereignty, but the debate about how to vote has at least focused attention on larger questions that Indigenous representatives will probably need to debate if a Voice is established.
The world after John Curtin • Inside Story
2023年11月24日 · These three metaphors — the Sixth Extinction, the Anthropocene and the Pyrocene — are historical concepts that require us to travel in geological and biological time across hundreds of millions of years and then to arrive back at the present with a sense not of continuity but of discontinuity, of profound rupture in our own time.
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