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- Roxon’s High Court dilemma
At a time when the court’s decisions are making life complicated for the government, Nicola Roxon is faced with two new appointments to the bench. Andrew Lynch looks at the factors she’ll be taking into account
- 09 July 2012
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- Yes, 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 July 2012
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- Is this Europe’s destiny?
European integration has come a long way since the European Coal and Steel Community was created in 1951. A stroll through the Parlamentarium in Brussels reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the vision of a united Europe, writes James Panichi
- 11 July 2012
Politics & policy
- Creating and choosing good schools
- 12 July 2012
Creating better schools is a long and often tortuous process, writes Chris Bonnor. The first step is to focus on policies that can actually work
- After the tears
- 02 July 2012
An emotional parliamentary debate failed to come to grips with why people move and why we sometimes worry about it, writes Klaus Neumann
- What has the Bali Process got to do with it?
- 02 July 2012
The amendments to the Migration Act rejected by the Senate would have reduced the incentive for the federal government to pursue refugee protection through the Bali Process regional cooperation framework, writes Savitri Taylor
- As luck would have it
- 28 June 2012
Market liberalism has defined the past three decades, writes John Quiggin, and George Megalogenis provides a valuable guide
- A pyrrhic victory for federalists?
- 26 June 2012
Despite first impressions, the High Court’s decision in the chaplaincy case was far from a clear victory for federalism. Graeme Orr looks at what it means for how the federal government spends its money
- Managing the optics of the Intervention
- 22 June 2012
Anticipating media coverage is now a key element in the development of Indigenous policy, report Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller
- Don’t mention the floor
- 14 June 2012
Amid tumbling international carbon markets and calls to weaken the carbon pricing scheme, Fergus Green makes the case for retaining an Australian carbon price floor
Essays & reportage
- William Chidley’s answer to the sex problem
- 04 July 2012
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
- Good at gardening, hopeless at engineering
- 13 June 2012
Restless innovation saved Australian schools from their structural problems, writes Dean Ashenden. But now the strains are well and truly showing
- Getting under their skin
- 07 June 2012
Frank Bongiorno traces the debate about blackness from Arthur Upfield to Andrew Bolt
- Overtested, overtreated and over here
- 04 June 2012
The principles behind an American campaign to reduce unnecessary and often expensive medical interventions are gaining support in Australia, writes Melissa Sweet
- Richard Casey’s forgotten people
- 31 May 2012
Over sixty years ago, an innovative political campaign offered Australian voters a coherent political philosophy, writes Stephen Mills
- Looking for an island circuit-breaker
- 24 May 2012
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
- Citizenship for beginners
- 16 April 2012
The Howard government made it harder for some nationalities to become citizens, and Labor has made it worse, writes Kerry Ryan
Media, books & the arts
- Rupert Murdoch’s Annus Horribilis
- 10 July 2012
It’s a year since News Corporation’s cover-up of phone-hacking in Britain began to unravel. Rodney Tiffen takes stock of the damage so far, assesses the News Corp split, and looks ahead
- Landscape with figures
- 04 July 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews William Maxwell’s The Château
- The sense of islandness
- 28 June 2012
Ian McShane reviews Henry Reynolds’s new history of his home state
- Retro gastronomy
- 28 June 2012
Dean Ashenden looks at Australians’ enthusiasm for new foods and our readiness to adapt, improvise and reinvent
- Small armies
- 28 June 2012
A Sydney Film Festival postscript from Sylvia Lawson
- Why Fairfax matters
- 27 June 2012
Fairfax newspapers are part of the fabric of Australian democracy, argues Rodney Tiffen
- Fairfax: time for a circuit breaker
- 25 June 2012
Caught between the threat of a new owner and the demands of a skittish sharemarket, Fairfax needs to reconstitute itself to survive, writes Peter Browne
World briefing
- Post-election Timor-Leste: the parties enter negotiations
- 10 July 2012
The results of the election suggest an intriguing balance in the new parliament, writes Michael Leach
- Timor-Leste: the parliamentary campaign begins
- 08 June 2012
Even the party that loses next month’s election will share in the victory by helping set the tone for post-UN democracy in this young nation, writes Michael Leach
- How the world warmed to a nuclear India
- 03 May 2012
India has pursued two curiously contradictory approaches to nuclear proliferation since independence, writes Kate Sullivan
- Günter Grass, again
- 19 April 2012
The Nobel laureate’s latest intervention in public debate says more about him than about the Middle East, writes Klaus Neumann. But it also draws attention to broader attitudes in Germany
- Timor-Leste: the presidential runoff
- 13 April 2012
Monday’s runoff vote is another step in the reconfiguration of East Timorese politics, writes Michael Leach
- Is that what we fought for?
- 12 April 2012
Researching her new book, Lindsey Hilsum spoke to Libyan women about their role in post-Gaddafi politics
- Which Putin will stand up?
- 28 March 2012
Born-again reformer, pragmatist or more of the same? The signs are mixed for Vladimir Putin’s third term as president, writes John Besemeres
Correspondents
- Taxing times are overdue in Pakistan
- 04 July 2012
Very low tax receipts are hindering Pakistan’s social programs and economic reforms, writes Alicia Mollaun in Islamabad
- Alive and well in London
- 25 June 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a classic theatrical revival, a new play paired with an old one, and a musical adapted from a film for the stage
- “We can rise from the ashes”
- 21 June 2012
Clar Ni Chonghaile finds signs of progress in the Somali capital
- A holiday from reality
- 18 June 2012
Britain’s season of high spectacle offers only a temporary respite from economic and political troubles, writes David Hayes
- Like something out of the Cultural Revolution
- 08 June 2012
Official China is ambivalent about Mao’s legacy, writes Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai
- The sound of silence in Tiananmen Square
- 07 June 2012
Twenty-three years after the massacre, the events of 4 June 1989 are still off limits, writes Antonia Finnane in Beijing
- France’s first facebooks
- 31 May 2012
A recent French exhibition traced the rise of the photograph as a proof of identity and a form of surveillance, writes Daniel Nethery
From the archive
- Keeping the Age noisy
- 01 December 2011
The Age’s history shows why Fairfax’s strategy is putting the paper’s identity at risk, writes Sybil Nolan
- The art of relevance
- 08 November 2011
Telling our own stories through the arts is obviously a good thing, writes Andrew Ford, but what does it mean in practice?
- Acting your age
- 12 October 2011
How do we want to be seen as we get older, asks Richard Johnstone – and who is our audience?
- Internet on the outstation
- 09 May 2011
Broadband will soon reach small communities in remote Australia, writes Ellie Rennie. But a few details need to be sorted out first…
- They tuck you up
- 05 May 2011
It might feel right, but is it good for the kids? Sara Dowse reviews two very different books about childhood
- The living end
- 05 April 2011
Hospitals, as much as relatives and friends, can find it very hard to let go, writes intensive care specialist Ken Hillman
- Large questions about a big corporation
- 07 July 2010
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