Hope for the Coalition? Plus: Lives and times, from the archive
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Reasons to be hopeful
If you’re a member of the government, that is — though the odds are still against you. Peter Brent looks at the size of the challenge
Books & Arts
Music | Despite her international fame, the Tasmanian-born pianist’s career was cut short by a conservative musical establishment
Essays & Reportage
A chance encounter anticipated the shocking disappearance of a prime minister fifty years ago
Best known as Samuel Johnson’s confidante, Hester Thrale was also a prolific and fearless writer. Jill Kitson reviews Ian McIntyre’s biography
Books | Was Kate Leigh a bad woman, the worst in Sydney?
Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century
Inside Story catches up with federal parliament’s fledgling independent MP
Review essay | Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present
Correspondents
Profile | Filipino senator Risa Hontiveros faces jail for protecting witnesses to a brutal state-sponsored killing. Has the country’s politics come full circle?
Temporary migration is fuelling a new boom in migration from Italy. But trying to settle permanently can be a disillusioning process
Extract | In the earliest days of Australian archaeology, Isabel McBryde set out to decipher the landscape of New England
My lunch at Bowral in 2013 with James Fairfax, who died last week
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Television | The best three series of 2018
Television | The BBC’s big-budget remake illustrates how perspectives have changed
Prisoners exist in a healthcare limbo, and the effects on their wellbeing can be profound
Books | Michelle Obama’s memoir also reveals much about the state of the nation
Writers and readers nominate the outstanding books they read during the year that might not have gained the attention they deserved
National Affairs
A new mechanism could fill a key gap in international climate agreements
Books | Are Labor and the Greens divided by their common ground?
International
It’s being called the new “Year of the Woman,” and it augurs badly for the Republicans
Britain’s economic model has to change, and that may take another seizure
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