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Inside Storyby Administrator·21d 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.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·24d ago

Anyone who tells you religion and politics don’t mix is either a fool or a knave. J.D. Vance is nobody’s fool.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·25d ago

My father called me Horace. He was not a classicist, rather someone who, like most of his generation, grew up listening to the radio.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·25d ago

At the end of Australia Fair?, James Walter and Carolyn Holbrook’s monumental, sprawling and somewhat disheartening history of social policy in Australia over the past eighty years, we are left...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·26d ago

After years of unsuccessful talks, the Vanuatu government has walked away from negotiations with France over its maritime boundary with the neighbouring French Pacific colony of New Caledonia.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·28d ago

A huge statue of a horse stands on the shore, waves lapping around it. By rights it should be a towering figure, reared up on its hind legs, but it is half buried in sand, seemingly abandoned to...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·28d ago

With his new book on the Abbott–Turnbull–Morrison era, the Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly has completed what his publishers call a “masterful trilogy on modern Australian politics,” which...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·22 Jul 2026

What might have been. The poet Wystan Hugh Auden was fond of writing librettos, at first alone, later with his long-term partner Chester Kallman.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·21 Jul 2026

On 24 November this year Laos reaches a milestone more than two decades in the making. The UN General Assembly will formally graduate the country from the ranks of the world’s Least Developed...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·21 Jul 2026

In the 1970s Australia established our present system of funding for both public and private schools. Public schools remained fully funded, open and free to everyone.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·21 Jul 2026

On an unseasonably hot day in September 2004, I travelled sixty-five kilometres northeast from Delhi to Meerut, a city in western Uttar Pradesh.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·17 Jul 2026

Was it good luck or a unique misfortune for Australia’s federal Labor government to be born at the same time as Generative AI?

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Inside Storyby Administrator·15 Jul 2026

The relationship of people to Australia’s environment has been a key interest of scholars and a founding rationale for scientific and cultural institutions for much of the past two centuries.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·14 Jul 2026

Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. And everywhere it appears, it raises questions. Artists and writers fear it will trawl their work, produce derivative products and make their creativity...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·14 Jul 2026

It might have got a little lost in the soaring emotions generated by the World Cup, but America has been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this...

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Inside Storyby Administrator·13 Jul 2026

American historian Robert Brigham has written extensively about US foreign policy and the Vietnam war. In Argument Without End (1999) he collaborated with Robert S.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·13 Jul 2026

Recently I came by chance upon some photographs of Mary Cook, wife of Joseph Cook, prime minister of Australia for fifteen months in 1913 and 1914.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·9 Jul 2026

Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·9 Jul 2026

She was a novelist and journalist, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable, a pal of Hemingway’s, and for half a century the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent.

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Inside Storyby Administrator·8 Jul 2026

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the...

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