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National affairs. Leaders and leaders Mark Baker 4 November 2024 Ahead of this week’s presidential election, billionaire newspaper owners have created a furore by blocking their editors’ endorsements. Jason Clare’s dead parrot Dean Ashenden 24 October 2024 Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed.
The Great Divide • Inside Story
To explain why their society was technologically more complex than others, they came up with what I call the Great Divide — the separation of the world’s peoples into farmers or hunter-gatherers. Anchored by their crops, farmers stayed put; hunter-gatherers didn’t. So the Divide is also a division between sedentism and mobility.
Essays & reportage • Category - Inside Story
Essays & reportage Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion Murray Goot 12 March 2024 Is the Australian’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours? Essays & reportage Ben Chifley’s pipe Anne-Marie Condé 7 March 2024 A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows Essays & reportage Red flags Ebony Nilsson 8 February 2024 Communist ...
Reading Bruce Pascoe • Inside Story
Nov 26, 2019 · When Dark Emu was published in 2014, Bruce became a household name and many readers encountered him for the first time. One of the pleasures of Salt is that it weaves his earlier fiction writing together with his now-celebrated nonfiction. We meet — or rediscover — the pre– Dark Emu Pascoe, and we’re reminded that this powerful voice ...
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Just remind me, what is the Constitution? • Inside Story
Feb 15, 2023 · Way back in 1987, a Newspoll found that only 54 per cent of respondents “knew that Australia has a written Constitution.”. In 1992 a Saulwick poll put the figure at 67 per cent. More recently, in 2021, the Constitutional Values Survey found a much higher 83 per cent answering affirmative to the easier statement, “had heard of the ...
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 ...
Murder he wrote • Inside Story
Besanko ruled that Roberts-Smith murdered or was complicit in the murder of multiple unarmed civilians while serving in Afghanistan. He found, on the balance of probabilities, that Roberts-Smith kicked a handcuffed prisoner off a cliff in 2012 before ordering another soldier to shoot him dead. He further found that in 2009, the SAS corporal ...
The place of reconciliation • Inside Story
The Reconciliation Barometer tells us that the vast majority of Australia’s general community believe in the importance of truth-telling processes as a means “to acknowledge the reality of Australia’s shared history.”. But it also tells us that large numbers of people remain doubtful about what truths our national history might hold.
From the archive • Category • Inside Story
From the archive Unquiet stories from Liffey Anne-Marie Condé 11 November 2021 A graveyard hints at the many people already mourning when the first world war broke out From the archive Inventing “ScoMo” Sean Kelly 5 November 2021 The prime minister set his own test for success — authenticity — and then went about passing it From the archive On being cosmopolitan Sara Dowse 22 October ...