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WEB3 days ago · Inside Story | Current affairs & culture from Australia and beyond. National affairs The enemy within Mark Baker 17 September 2024 The government wants to rule a line under criminal behaviour in the military, but internal resistance remains strong. National affairs Australia’s failed jobs experiment Mike Steketee 16 September 2024 The Keating ...
It’s not just police who police • Inside Story
WEB6 hours ago · It’s not just police who police. An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem. Nic Maclellan 20 September 20242193 words. Prime minister Anthony Albanese joins other Pacific leaders for a group photo at the Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tonga late last month ...
Digging deeper into a 65,000 year story • Inside Story
WEBIt is a complex, contoured and ongoing history of human endurance and achievement in the face of great social, environmental and climatic change. And last week, in a landmark Nature paper, it was pushed back to 65,000 years. Dating the earliest human occupation at 65,000 years ago is a dramatic step, and it throws up questions that are not ...
migration • Topic • Inside Story
WEBAug 28, 2024 · migration. Peter Dutton’s road to nowhere Peter Brent 28 August 2024 The opposition leader has an electorally ineffective obsession. Poor at politics, strong on policy Peter Mares 2 August 2024 Andrew Giles’s record as immigration minister stands up remarkably well Distant crimes, nearby perpetrators Hamish McDonald 10 May 2024 Under ...
Finding the Moree way • Inside Story
WEBJun 11, 2021 · My own drive from Walgett to Moree last month was more peaceful than back then. Three years earlier, in 2018, I had visited Bourke, about 440 kilometres west of Moree along the same outback highway. Bourke had embarked on what has become Australia’s most successful bid by its Aboriginal people to use a …
Bringing them home - Inside Story
WEBJan 1, 2019 · The slow and meandering journey of these stories of suffering and trauma to the centre of settler consciousness was a long one, which Bringing Them Home would complete in 1997. In July 1996, however, the newly minted Howard cabinet — assisted by a submission from attorney-general Daryl Williams — …
A landmark work of Australian history • Inside Story
WEBMike Smith (1955–2022), a great Australian archaeologist, died in Canberra on Sunday 16 October.As his family announced, “he put down his tools and hung up his hat.” A week before his death he was walking his beloved dog, writing a scientific paper, riding his recliner-bike around Lake Burley Griffin, converting cabbage from his garden into kimchi and no doubt cooking his famed custard ...
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The long road to recognition - Inside Story
WEBMay 19, 2017 · Over the past six months, from Hobart to Broome and Adelaide to Thursday Island, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have reclaimed the movement towards constitutional recognition at twelve historic First Nation Regional Dialogues.On 23–26 May, on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 constitutional referendum, representatives from each dialogue will meet at Uluru for the first ...
After the battle • Inside Story
WEBNov 28, 2020 · The sheer human drama overwhelms the senses. It catches at the throat like the crisp, sharp air of Oruzgan itself, as if you’ve just jumped down from the helicopter onto the stony ground. The adrenaline pumps as you imagine the sudden chaos and excitement, the sheer power and the feeling of omnipotence carried by the crack Special Forces ...