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WEB5 days ago · Inside Story | Current affairs & culture from Australia and beyond. National affairs The enemy within Mark Baker 17 September 2024 The government wants to rule a line under criminal behaviour in the military, but internal resistance remains strong. National affairs Australia’s failed jobs experiment Mike Steketee 16 September 2024 The Keating ...
Australia’s failed jobs experiment • Inside Story
WEB6 days ago · Australia’s failed jobs experiment. The Keating government’s changes to employment services – intensified by its Coalition successors — have bred inefficiency and fragmentation. Mike Steketee 16 September 2024 1693 words. The theories driving the changes have proved to be “rubbish,” according to inquiry chair Julian Hill. Mick ...
It’s not just police who police • Inside Story
WEB2 days ago · It’s not just police who police. An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem. Nic Maclellan 20 September 20242193 words. Prime minister Anthony Albanese joins other Pacific leaders for a group photo at the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tonga late last month ...
On Possession Island • Inside Story
WEBAug 4, 2020 · In an entry in his journal on 22 August 1770 he described how he and a party of men had landed on the island at the northern tip of the continent that he would shortly call Possession Island, the name being a way of marking what he reckoned he had done there: Having satisfied myself of the great probability of a passage, thro’ which I intend ...
Fighting on all fronts - Inside Story
WEBBy John Edwards | Viking | $49.99 | 512 pages. Of the thirty prime ministers who have led Australia since Federation, John Curtin is arguably the greatest of all, and perhaps even the only one who can be called great. Apart from the short interregnums of Arthur Fadden (forty days in 1941) and Frank Forde (seven days in 1945), Curtin was the ...
After the walk-off - Inside Story
WEBAug 24, 2016 · After the walk-off. Between their historic departure from Wave Hill station in 1966 and Gough Whitlam’s return of their land in 1975, the Gurindji people lived through a decade of uncertainty. In this extract from his new book, Charlie Ward takes up the story in 1974. Charlie Ward 24 August 2016 2621 words.
Digging deeper into a 65,000 year story • Inside Story
WEBIt is a complex, contoured and ongoing history of human endurance and achievement in the face of great social, environmental and climatic change. And last week, in a landmark Nature paper, it was pushed back to 65,000 years. Dating the earliest human occupation at 65,000 years ago is a dramatic step, and it throws up questions that are not ...
Reading Bruce Pascoe • Inside Story
WEBNov 26, 2019 · Whatever Bruce Pascoe is saying, Australians clearly want to hear it now. And he has responded generously to the call, touring the continent tirelessly these past few years, accepting invitations to speak to audiences of all kinds in both city and bush. Apparently indefatigable in his early seventies, he reminds us of the enduring power of book ...
Writing life - Inside Story
WEBJan 3, 2024 · It’s only a few months since I recommended Catharine Lumby’s lively biography of Frank Moorhouse to readers of Inside Story.Her Frank Moorhouse: A Life is a warm tribute to its subject as a social force, with photographs and an index for those eager to check out mutual contacts, though it gives little attention to Moorhouse’s fiction.. While Lumby was working on her book Matthew Lamb was ...
After the battle • Inside Story
WEBNov 28, 2020 · The sheer human drama overwhelms the senses. It catches at the throat like the crisp, sharp air of Oruzgan itself, as if you’ve just jumped down from the helicopter onto the stony ground. The adrenaline pumps as you imagine the sudden chaos and excitement, the sheer power and the feeling of omnipotence carried by the crack Special Forces ...
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