Inside Story

Essays & Reportage The Lebers, a family of ratbags Seumas Spark 23 November 2023 Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change Books & Arts Blighted affections Marian Quartly 8 November 2023 What was lost when breach-of-promise cases could no longer be taken to court? Books & Arts Active and ongoing Alecia Simmonds 6 November 2023 Is Chanel Contos’s Consent Laid Bare part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist? Books & Arts The one who told them who they were Nick Haslam 19 October 2023 A writer and activist explores the changing seasons of grief

Essays & Reportage Women and Whitlam: then, now, and what might come Sara Dowse 24 March 2023 That era’s spirit of optimistic change has a message for the 2020s 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 Books & Arts Days of hope Sara Dowse 17 December 2021 Feminist thinker and activist Sheila Rowbotham remembers the 1970s National Affairs Revolving doors and poisoned chalices Sara Dowse 22 September 2021 Female politicians are no longer rare, and the prospect of a female PM nowhere near as challenging. What seems to matter is how they get there

Books & Arts What’s not to like? Jane Goodall 9 July 2021 With just one blind spot, Annabel Crabb is at her best in the ABC’s Ms Represented National Affairs Shadow pandemic Paul McGorrery and Marilyn McMahon 2 July 2021 Proposed NSW legisation focuses a new lens on domestic abuse National Affairs A certain class of consent Alecia Simmonds 18 June 2021 Is a concept drawn from contract law the best test of sexual assault? Books & Arts Gloves off Carolyn Collins 5 June 2021 Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups?