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International Michael Leach 12 January 2017 This week’s joint announcement has cleared the way for progress on Australia’s maritime boundary with Timor-Leste
Books & Arts Andrew Ford 12 January 2017 Music | What makes the distinguished Italian pianist different? International Lesley Russell 9 January 2017 As Republicans splinter and the real world intrudes, abolishing Obamacare is looking more difficult by the day National Affairs Peter Brent 6 January 2017 There are many reasons why Western Australia’s government could change in March. Then there are the wild cards, including One Nation
Books & Arts Jane Goodall 3 January 2017 Television | Holiday viewing tips from Inside Story’s TV writer National Affairs Peter Brent 28 December 2016 Electorally speaking, Cory Bernardi is on the wrong Coalition faultline

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National Affairs Tim Colebatch 20 December 2016 The government still won’t acknowledge why the deficit isn’t going away, but it’s not too late to take some simple steps
National Affairs William Coleman 19 December 2016 Is Australia caught in a Panglossian clench? The editor of Only in Australia responds to Inside Story’s review National Affairs Tessa Morris-Suzuki 16 December 2016 Controversy over a statue in the city’s inner west has deep historical roots National Affairs Jon Altman 16 December 2016 The abolition of Community Development Employment Projects has undermined economic renewal in remote Indigenous communities National Affairs Norman Abjorensen 9 December 2016 The political year is drawing to a close with government increasingly in the hands of the Liberal Party’s most conservative MPs

Essays & Reportage

Essays & Reportage Brian Galligan 22 December 2016 Keith Windschuttle has assembled a highly selective case against recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
Essays & Reportage Hal Wootten 19 December 2016 The 1966 equal pay case was a product of the silence at the heart of Indigenous policy, writes one of the lawyers briefed in the case Essays & Reportage Peter Mares 14 December 2016 Near the South Australia–Victoria border, a small community captures the highs and lows of the migration experience Essays & Reportage Seumas Spark 12 December 2016 Among the speakers at last month’s conference at Monash University on the work of historian Ken Inglis was Seumas Spark, who is working with Ken and the American… Essays & Reportage Marian Sawer 8 December 2016 Fifty years ago, women in the Australian public service finally won the right to remain employed after marriage, overcoming resistance even from their own union

Books & Arts

Books & Arts Brian McFarlane 23 December 2016 Cinema | Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion captures Emily Dickinson in a rich social setting
Books & Arts Sally McCausland 20 December 2016 How Australian true-crime podcasters are doing better than Serial Books & Arts Frank Bongiorno 19 December 2016 From the archive | In 1962 Peter Coleman assembled a group of writers to fill a gap in the way intellectuals had viewed Australia Books & Arts Richard Johnstone 19 December 2016 With so much happening in front of the camera, there isn’t a lot of time for mobile photographers to look back Books & Arts Jane Goodall 14 December 2016 Books | Viewing habits have changed, but TV is still at the forefront of cultural change

International

International Matthew Ricketson 28 December 2016 Old-fashioned reporting finally undid the unattractive creator of Fox News
International Rodney Tiffen 26 December 2016 It seemed like a good year for Rupert Murdoch, but will Donald Trump’s victory come back to haunt Fox News? International Sara Currie 21 December 2016 What, no golf course? Marketing Timor-Leste as a tourist destination can be challenging International Jon Fraenkel 13 December 2016 Elections across the Pacific this year largely defied the predictions of doomsayers International James Panichi 6 December 2016 Prime minister Matteo Renzi risked everything in his attempt to reduce the power of the Senate and cut back on layers of government

Correspondents

Correspondents David Hayes 26 December 2016 Letter from London | Britain’s divisions over Europe fester in a political swamp. But there is a way out
Correspondents David Hayes 10 November 2016 America’s rage revolution echoes Britain’s referendum uprising. But does it bring the old allies closer? Correspondents David Hayes 1 October 2016 The long walk to equality in Britain is embroiled in cyberbullying and a party’s civil war Correspondents David Hayes 16 August 2016 Britain is paralysed by its decision to leave the European Union, says David Hayes Correspondents Alexandra Biggs 4 August 2016 This open space in central Istanbul has long been a site of political struggle, writes Alexandra Biggs. Last month’s attempted coup was no exception

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