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Essays & Reportage
Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion
Murray Goot
12 March 2024
Is the
Australian
’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
National Affairs
How’s he travelling?
Peter Brent
22 February 2024
It depends on how you ask the question
Books & Arts
We’re not at war. We’re at work
Matthew Ricketson
14 February 2024
Former
Washington Post
editor Martin Baron reflects on Trump, Bezos and the challenges of journalism
Correspondents
Lost in the post
Peter Mares
12 February 2024
Britain’s Post Office scandal, kept alive by dogged journalism and a new drama series, still has a long way to run
From the archive
The enemy within
James Panichi
14 November 2023
How David Cameron — who returned to the British cabinet this week — fed the beast that eventually destroyed his prime ministership
Books & Arts
Manhattan’s media piranha
Rodney Tiffen
10 November 2023
Biographer Michael Wolff is still carrying a torch for the disgraced former Fox News head Roger Ailes
Books & Arts
Making media moguls
Jock Given
3 November 2023
Weren’t these guys dying out?
Books & Arts
Can generational analysis be saved?
John Quiggin
30 October 2023
A sociologist offers a more sophisticated take on generational differences, but problems remain
National Affairs
Asking the right questions about the ABC
Michael Gill
1 September 2023
Is the broadcaster judging itself according to the wrong criteria?
Books & Arts
The first succession… and its consequences
Tom Greenwell
15 August 2023
Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
Essays & Reportage
The “end” of Labor’s honeymoon and the “collapse” of women’s support for the Voice
Murray Goot
25 July 2023
How Newspoll reports public opinion and how the
Australian
reports Newspoll
Books & Arts
Unfriendly fire
Mark Baker
12 July 2023
Two new books go behind the scenes with the reporters who exposed Ben Roberts-Smith’s actions in Afghanistan
National Affairs
Losing ground?
Murray Goot
9 June 2023
Support for the Voice may not have dropped as much as the latest Newspoll suggests
National Affairs
Dazzled on the Danube
Peter Browne
7 June 2023
What was Greg Sheridan doing in Budapest?
National Affairs
Murder he wrote
Mark Baker
2 June 2023
Ben Roberts-Smith might be the author of his own fall, but the implications extend to the highest levels of military decision-making
Essays & Reportage
New media’s idiosyncratic survivor
Margaret Simons
18 May 2023
Crikey
emerges from its dispute with Lachlan Murdoch with a familiar figure at the helm
Correspondents
Bruised but not yet beaten
Andrew Dodd
21 April 2023
A hundred million here, a hundred million there: is it just the cost of doing business for News Corp?
Essays & Reportage
Petty’s golden thread
Robert Phiddian
12 April 2023
The brilliant cartoonist illuminated Australia as it is, and as it could be
Essays & Reportage
Damaging the brand
Rodney Tiffen
7 March 2023
The Dominion Voting Systems legal suit against Fox News has already unearthed damning evidence from within the Murdoch-owned network
International
Ruffled feathers or straws in the wind?
Robin Jeffrey
21 February 2023
Defending Adani and attacking the BBC and George Soros: it’s been a busy few weeks for India’s Modi government
National Affairs
Just remind me, what is the Constitution?
Peter Brent
15 February 2023
There are good reasons to be sceptical about recent polling on the Voice referendum
Essays & Reportage
Harry, Meghan and the republic
Ann Curthoys, John Docker and Lyndall Ryan
7 February 2023
On Netflix and in print, the couple’s story has been informed by a historical perspective with implications for Australia
Books & Arts
Lies, damned lies, and data
Danielle Wood
30 January 2023
Wrong, misleading or beside the point: bad data is bad for policymaking — and examples abound
National Affairs
Where’s Melbourne’s best coffee, ChatGPT?
Margaret Simons
27 January 2023
The robot can tell you what everyone else thinks — and that creates an opportunity for journalists
National Affairs
Ruffling the hair apparent
Rodney Tiffen
2 November 2022
Once a key player in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian empire, Ken Cowley ended up on the outer
Books & Arts
Does Lachlan care?
Andrew Dodd
2 November 2022
A new biography of Rupert Murdoch’s successor throws indirect light on why he is suing
Crikey
Books & Arts
Tell me, young man, are you a c-c-communist?
Gideon Haigh
1 November 2022
Hired young by Keith Murdoch, Michael Cannon made his name as a journalistic roustabout and gifted historian
National Affairs
Faux scandal
Daniel Reeders
31 October 2022
$8 billion lost each year in Medicare fraud, errors and over-servicing? The evidence doesn’t add up
Books & Arts
Bearing the unbearable
Matthew Ricketson
10 October 2022
Parents of the Sandy Hook victims took on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones with stunning results
Essays & Reportage
The correspondent who saw too much
Melissa Roberts
3 October 2022
It was “harder to get into Fleet Street than to rob the bank of England,” wrote journalist Lorraine Summ. But she went on to publish one of the Pacific war’s great scoops
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