Port Vila flâneur • Inside Story
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Port Vila, Vanuatu’s traffic-clogged yet charming capital city, is aflutter with flags in the week I visit.
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top 93%We might finally be ready to do something about AI • David Wallace-Wells
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Something really big happened last week in the world of artificial intelligence: Quite suddenly, after several years of relentless and disorienting momentum, the course of rapid AI progress ran...
Out of the office • Inside Story
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Work is not what it was. Does the office even still exist or has it been replaced by teams that could be anywhere?
Airport dreaming • Peter Spearritt
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When Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport opened in 1970 air travellers welcomed it as a marvel of modern efficiency.
Night of nights • Jane Goodall
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Headlines for the big show business award ceremonies follow a few basic conventions: the show that sweeps the board; the controversial speech; the breakout newcomer or returning veteran; the...
That’s not all folks! • Inside Story
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The fates of Wile E. Coyote and his raison d’être, potential prey and nemesis, the Road Runner, have been entwined since 1949, when they made their debut as Looney Tunes cartoon characters.
China-maxxing at the end of history • Inside Story
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Are you at a very Chinese time in your life? Or is there more to “becoming Chinese” than buying a Labubu doll, drinking warm water, hopping into a BYD electric car or even joining a group of...
More to come? • Brian McFarlane
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Prolific and versatile across various continents, Bruce Beresford, as director and sometimes as producer and writer, has been the great craftsman of Australian film.
Family trouble • Peter Mares
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After home affairs minister Tony Burke postponed his Press Club speech in early August, the ABC reported he was considering tighter rules for family migration.
AUKUS takes on parliament • Tim Rowse
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Will the Australian parliament ever debate AUKUS? The latest opportunity came up in April this year, when the Albanese government released its latest National Defence Strategy; its text is yet to...
The hidden librettist • Susan Lever
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Most operas are known as the work of their composers, with the librettist quietly acknowledged, if at all, in the program.
Early access to super? • Inside Story
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While sophisticates can smile at the old adage that one should neither a lender nor a borrower be, the notion that one should not be both at the same time — unless one is earning a little margin —...
Europe takes the heat • Michael Jacobs
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As the European summer comes to an end, an intriguing question emerges. Will the record-breaking heat and wildfires that have devastated the continent over the past four months make any difference...
Alice’s wonderland • Inside Story
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Tom Griffiths was fourteen when he came across a book by Alice Duncan-Kemp in his school library.
Born singing • Zora Simic
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Lauren Elkin was “born singing.” She sang before she spoke. Naturally musical, but never a prodigy, she became obsessed with musical theatre after her parents took her to see Stephen Sondheim’s...
Will life return to the Anglesea River? • Peter Mares
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“Our vision is that you’ll never know we were here,” says Alcoa’s Warren Sharp. “We want to be an exemplar for mine rehabilitation.” Tall and wiry, Sharp wears safety glasses, a high-vis shirt and...
Talking cures • Nick Haslam
Inside Storyby Administrator4 Sept 2026
Language watchers will have noticed the rise of therapy-speak. Boundaries must be maintained, space must be held, gaslighting must be called out, and triggers, traumas and diagnostic terms abound.
The year the bubble burst • John Edwards
Inside Storyby Administrator4 Sept 2026
In his new book, 1873, economist, investment banker and Pulitzer-winning writer Liaquat Ahamed tells us this was the year the modern world was made.
Old grievances, fresh wounds • Inside Story
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The language was anything but diplomatic. The Bangladesh foreign ministry was “outraged” that a “convicted genocider” — the country’s disgraced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina — had been...
The demography whisperer • Paul Strangio
Inside Storyby Administrator3 Sept 2026
Whether it was intended or not, the latest book by the accomplished Australian journalist and author George Megalogenis was published not long after census night last month.