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December 2, 2019Remember her name
Systemic racism, unconscious bias, and the death in custody of Tanya Day
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Culture
October 16, 2018The Detectives
Inside the hunt for the Black Saturday arsonist – an extract
Culture
May 9, 2018Rainshadow’s heart of darkness
On Thea Astley and her classic novel
Culture
July 1, 2017Beyond the notes
Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar String Quartet meet some of Melbourne’s youngest musicians
Culture
April 1, 2017Magic hands
Russian piano superstar Daniil Trifonov teaches a masterclass in Melbourne
Politics
June 1, 2016Could he actually win?
On the road with Bill Shorten
Society
May 1, 2016Dinosaur digger
Melbourne Museum’s Thomas Rich has devoted more than 30 years to Australia’s polar dinosaurs
Politics
December 1, 2015Burning the stakeholders
Shen Narayanasamy takes on Transfield
essay
February 1, 2014Lives of the magnates
Inside the worlds of Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Nathan Tinkler
Politics
August 1, 2013On the road with Julia Gillard
Sketches of a prime minister in her final months
Authors
April 1, 2013Margaret Atwood comes to Perth
Brides revisited
Education
December 6, 2012Notes from a Small Town
Students getting into the groove
October 4, 2012
Jack’s a ripper
Melbourne Museum's bowerbird artist
Society
February 4, 2009Boxing for Palm Island
In a bunker-like hall in Townsville a boxing ring is set up under fluorescent strip lights and 200 people – trainers, enthusiasts, pugilists past and present – sit in monsoonal heat, watching two ten-year-old Aboriginal boys punching the stuffing …
Society
September 2, 2008Under the rainshadow
When I first travelled to Palm Island, to attend the inquest into Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody, I was venturing into Astley country. The great Thea Astley (1925-2004) had a love of the fecundity and the rot of tropical life, of small communities …