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Inside Storyby Administrator·17h ago

On the surface, Singapore gleams. It’s wealthy, orderly, safe. The trains (generally) run on time, the amenities are plentiful, and the tiny city-state punches above its weight in international...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·20h ago

A few months ago, when I was in the middle of a dispiriting time wrestling with words and seriously questioning my professional choices, my friend Siobhán got in touch bearing unexpectedly good...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·1d ago

Politics in Australia is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. Measured in terms of their apparent emotional connection to issues and causes, Australians seem more “political” than ever, and yet...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·2d ago

Some years ago, Belinda Webster, the founder of Tall Poppies Records, received in the mail a cheque for $10,000 from the writer and arts patron Barbara Blackman.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·4d ago

Angus Taylor says changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount have put housing into “freefall,” blaming Labor’s “toxic taxes” for “a collapse in the housing market.” His comments...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·4d ago

Susan Sontag and Thomas Mann met just once, for afternoon tea, but the encounter had long-lasting consequences.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·5d 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 —...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·7d 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.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·8d 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...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·8d 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...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·10d 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...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·11d 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.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·14d 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...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·15d 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...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·16d 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...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·17d ago

Mainz, of all places. Conservative, Catholic, comfortable Mainz, founded by Roman invaders more than 2000 years ago.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·17d 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...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·17d 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...

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Inside Storyby Peter Brent·18d ago

“One Nation Retakes Lead Over Labor in Latest Poll,” says the Australian Financial Review’s headline, and it’s almost right.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·19d 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...

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