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- London’s road from Damascus
Syria’s war is opening new dividing lines in British politics, says David Hayes. Once the consequences play out, Ed Miliband might have lost more than has David Cameron
- 03 September 2013
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- Labor’s debt problem
Labor’s response to the Coalition’s argument that it was profligate during the financial crisis has been disastrously inept, argues Peter Brent
- 04 September 2013
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- Immigration’s unanswered questions
The immigration department is months behind in answering questions from Senate estimate committees – questions that would provide vital information about the government’s changing asylum seeker policies, writes Peter Mares
- 03 September 2013
Politics & policy
- Simplifying the Senate
- 04 September 2013
Modest changes to how senators are elected would improve transparency and make voting easier, says Brian Costar
- Looking for an electoral messiah
- 29 August 2013
“Leadership” is seldom the key determinant of election results, writes Brian Costar. The mistaken belief has damaged both major parties
- The Gonski prospect
- 29 August 2013
Gonski has come to symbolise a sense of social decency, writes Dean Ashenden. But how much “Gonski” is left in the plan, and how will it look after the election?
- The rising costs of the great Australian dream
- 28 August 2013
Without a change in policies, an ageing population is likely to reduce housing affordability and increase inequality, writes Peter Mares
- The land of the long white mirage
- 21 August 2013
Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey think that New Zealand’s economic policies have worked well. They’re wrong, writes John Quiggin
- The facts are the story
- 20 August 2013
Peter Clarke talks to Fact Check presenter John Barron about the ABC’s newest project
- Health: the missing election debate
- 20 August 2013
So far, healthcare has gone missing in the election campaign, writes Lesley Russell
Essays & reportage
- A real League of Nations team
- 03 September 2013
Kathy Marks visits Australia’s most-watched suburbs
- Casey, the dirt boys and the grey material
- 02 September 2013
A cross-dressing MI6 agent and a shadowy British anti-communist propaganda outfit were key players in the development of Australia’s cold war “soft diplomacy” program. More than fifty years later, as Alan Fewster reports, elements of their legacy remain
- Winning the battle of ideas
- 26 August 2013
In many ways the opposition has already won this election by shifting the political middle ground, writes Dennis Altman
- Rudd 1987 or Abbott 1996?
- 20 August 2013
Has Labor’s campaign taken a fatal turn? History shows that divided control of campaign messages can be a disaster, writes Stephen Mills
- Is Common Ground a commonsense response to homelessness?
- 30 July 2013
In his first stint as prime minister, Kevin Rudd set a target of halving homelessness by 2020. If he is still committed to that goal, then the Common Ground approach might chart a way forward, writes Peter Mares
- Gay rights and the glass ceiling
- 29 July 2013
How much has changed over the past four decades, asks Dennis Altman in this extract from his new book, The End of the Homosexual?
- Forgotten war
- 25 July 2013
The looming centenary of the landing at Gallipoli is a reminder of the unfinished business between settler and Indigenous Australia left over from the decade of incomplete reconciliation, writes Henry Reynolds in this extract from his new book
Media, books & the arts
- Hearts, heads and pockets
- 02 September 2013
Harder thinking about Labor’s strengths and weaknesses will be needed after 7 September, writes Frank Bongiorno
- Fairfax adrift: the view from Sydney
- 30 August 2013
Readers and journalists are mostly missing from two recent books about the troubles at Fairfax, writes Sybil Nolan
- Holding the line
- 27 August 2013
Widely watched and highly profitable, Chinese Central TV is also in many ways dysfunctional, writes Kerry Brown
- The war that isn’t going to happen
- 25 August 2013
“Cyber war” has more in common with the war on obesity than the second world war, says Thomas Rid. Emily Crawford reviews his new book
- The war the bloggers won
- 23 August 2013
Political bloggers brought a new rigour to interpreting the polls, writes Greg Jericho
- Magnetism and magic
- 22 August 2013
Sylvia Lawson reviews Sue Milliken’s account of a career in Australian film-making
- Winner’s curse?
- 22 August 2013
Despite the global financial crisis and high-profile scandals, money continues to flow at the highest end of the art auction market. Anna Cristina Pertierra looks at why
World briefing
- Delaying the nuclear-free zone in the Pacific
- 27 August 2013
As Pacific leaders gather this week in the Marshall Islands, the United States continues to delay ratification of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty. Using previously classified documents Nic Maclellan recounts a history of opposition to a nuclear free Pacific, and a reminder that Australia could be breaching the treaty
- How does a nation heal itself?
- 08 August 2013
Despite pioneering the concept of the truth commission, Argentina is still dealing with the legacy of political and military violence thirty years later, writes Jill Stockwell
- Big brother
- 15 July 2013
Popular unease about US surveillance of German citizens could pose a problem for Angela Merkel as national elections loom, writes Klaus Neumann
- The Islamic state in context
- 10 July 2013
Fears of the emergence of an Islamic state in Egypt or other countries in the region are at odds with thirteen centuries of history, writes Tarek Osman
- “One Brazil for all”
- 26 June 2013
The protests in Brazil highlight both the successes and limitations of the Workers’ Party government, writes Tom Chodor
- Overcoming this century’s Berlin Blockade
- 16 June 2013
It’s time for Germany to throw off old habits, both on European policy and in how it deals with broader security challenges, writes Michael Bröning
- A “train wreck” that looks like staying on the rails
- 03 June 2013
Opponents of Obamacare will have to face the fact that the scheme is being implemented across the United States, even in some unlikely places, writes Lesley Russell
Correspondents
- Election 2013: The view from up above
- 28 August 2013
Britain’s media coverage of Australia’s election is lively but limited, finds David Hayes
- China’s first top-100 global brand?
- 25 August 2013
Four hundred million people have downloaded WeChat, a quarter of them outside China. And the figures are growing daily, reports James Leibold
- A politics out of time
- 25 July 2013
The scale of Britain’s problems leaves its party and electoral systems struggling to catch up, says David Hayes
- Surveillance society
- 04 July 2013
A high-tech system of social control is being superimposed on China’s network of urban neighbourhoods, writes James Leibold in Beijing
- Big Society vs DIY World
- 17 June 2013
Although it’s widely disdained, the very vagueness of David Cameron’s ambitious idea gives it resilience, says David Hayes
- A Kenyan dilemma, with global drivers
- 06 June 2013
The East African country needs to take hold of its own future, the celebrated Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina tells Clar Ni Chonghaile. And he is deeply ambivalent about the role of the International Criminal Court
- Life on stage
- 31 May 2013
In London, Brian McFarlane reviews three recent stage productions
From the archive
- It was time: Mick Young’s triumph, forty years on
- 29 November 2012
Not only was the 1972 election a watershed for Labor, it also created the modern political campaign, writes Stephen Mills
- How Labor lost New South Wales
- 30 April 2012
A culture of entitlement helped undermine policy-making under four Labor premiers, writes Andrew West
- Not drowning, waving
- 16 December 2011
Rob Oakeshott still has a lot he wants to get done, he tells Peter Browne
- Reasons to be cheerful
- 06 June 2011
Hung parliaments don’t come along very often in Australian federal politics. Tony Windsor clearly wants to make the most of the chance, writes Brett Evans
- 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 myth of CPR
- 21 January 2010
How did such a poorly proven intervention become a routine end to many people’s lives, asks Ken Hillman in this extract from his recent book
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