Magic on the mountain • Glenn Nicholls
Inside Storyby Administrator7d ago
Susan Sontag and Thomas Mann met just once, for afternoon tea, but the encounter had long-lasting consequences.
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top 87%ABC removes more episodes by sacked reporter Mahmood Fazal
ABC News8d ago
In short: An ABC review of sacked reporter Mahmood Fazal's use of anonymous interviewees has found three more episodes of concern from Four Corners and Background Briefing.
Bulldozing democracy • James Walter
Inside Storyby Administrator8d ago
Not long ago, Gina Rinehart asked an audience at a Queensland bush summit to imitate bulldozers. She had summoned on stage the bulldozer-in-chief, her ally Pauline Hanson, whose One Nation would —...
What Michael Young actually said • Dean Ashenden
Inside Storyby Administrator11d ago
Michael Young deserves to be remembered for many things but is in fact remembered for just one: he was author of that extraordinary book, The Rise of the Meritocracy.
Stalemate • Rodney Tiffen
Inside Storyby Administrator11d ago
When IBM’s custom-built Deep Blue computer beat world champion chessplayer Gary Kasparov in 1997 — the first time a machine had defeated a world champion — a threshold was crossed, at least...
The rise of the measles-industrial complex • Paul Krugman
Inside Storyby Administrator12d ago
On Monday Donald Trump issued an executive order that, if implemented, would substantially reduce the number of vaccines American children receive and, in practice, how many of them are vaccinated...
One theory to explain it all • Dominic Kelly
Inside Storyby Administrator13d ago
Cultural Marxism has been around as a concept since the 1930s, but only in the past couple of decades has it taken off as a commonly used pejorative against the left in the United States and...
The blue paperclip of resistance • Melissa Conley Tyler
Inside Storyby Administrator15d ago
Everyone said I shouldn’t go. Friends and family — even my preternaturally understanding husband — were all against it. They thought there was no way I’d make it through the border.
Six times our politicians reminded us not to take politics too seriously
ABC Newsby David Speers16d ago
Politics is a serious business, conducted by serious people, for serious outcomes (usually). With so much at stake, this is as it should be.
Albanese’s lengthening innings • Paul Strangio
Inside Storyby Administrator18d ago
Disruption, volatility, insurgency and polarisation are the buzzwords of this political age. Now Britain, fresh from the sixth change of prime minister in a decade, has given us another term...
The worlds of Musquito • Kate Fullagar
Inside Storyby Administrator18d ago
Less famous than Aboriginal leaders like Bennelong and Pemulwuy and less notorious than later Aboriginal outlaws like Jimmy Governor, Musquito (c.1778–1825) was a First Nations man who yet deserves...
ABC investigations boss leaves as Four Corners probe continues
ABC News19d ago
In short Award-winning ABC investigations boss Jo Puccini is leaving the public broadcaster after a 25-year career.
Can The Pitt help save us from superbugs? • Assa Doron and Alex Broome
Inside Storyby Administrator20d ago
It is a strange feeling to see your work suddenly playing out on TV. There we were, sunk into the couch for another episode of The Pitt, the blood-soaked hospital drama set in a Pittsburgh...
A light in the darkness • Klaus Neumann
Inside Storyby Administrator20d ago
Mainz, of all places. Conservative, Catholic, comfortable Mainz, founded by Roman invaders more than 2000 years ago.
Orders from above • Peter Mares
Inside Storyby Administrator20d ago
Ben Carroll wants to convince Victorian voters he is neither Daniel Andrews nor Jacinta Allan. The new Labor premier’s first act was to call a royal commission into the construction industry...
Tongue-tied no more • Jim Davidson
Inside Storyby Administrator21d ago
How to Kill a Language is written from the heart. Sophia Smith Galer is a British journalist who holds a degree in Spanish and Arabic, and whose family, living in North London, provides a textbook...
'Cocaine dealer' on Mahmood Fazal's Four Corners episode says she did it as 'an acting role'
ABC News21d ago
In short: Further concerns over the accuracy of reporting by sacked Four Corners reporter Mahmood Fazal have been raised on Media Watch.
Three-cornered contest • Peter Brent
Inside Storyby Peter Brent22d ago
“One Nation Retakes Lead Over Labor in Latest Poll,” says the Australian Financial Review’s headline, and it’s almost right.
Is this what a post-literate era looks like? • David Wallace-Wells
Inside Storyby Administrator23d ago
Few things are more intuitive about the smartphone era than the fact that devices have torpedoed our interest in reading and dragged down the status that books and their authors once seemed to...
A wing and a prayer • James Murphy and Tenzin Liddy-Corlett
Inside Storyby Administrator24d ago
One hundred and nineteen days: that’s how long new Labor premier Ben Carroll has until Victorians are due at the polls. Less even, given many — maybe a third — will vote early.