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Labor’s Russian embassy headache returns to court: The looming hearing recalls cold war battles and a more recent courtroom defeat, says Karen Middleton inside.org.au/labors-russian…

“Given that some 64% of inheritances in Australia go to people aged 55 or over, most of whom are already in the upper half of the wealth distribution, a tax on inheritances of more than (say) $3 million would likely make a useful contribution…” inside.org.au/the-widening-w…

“The Commonwealth really can’t afford to lose. No doubt the parliamentary drafters are working on a revised, 2025 version of the Home Affairs Act, just in case.”: insidestory.org.au/labors-russian… Inside Story previews Russian Federation v Australia, coming soonish to High Court of Australia.

Albanese’s Trump challenge is to "highlight what Australia is already doing and the value it represents to the USA, both militarily and on trade, in a way that elicits positivity not punishment." And to identify what Australia "will end up having to pay." insidestory.org.au/aukuss-missing…

Diagnoses in, now for action. Labor can’t deliver better healthcare without embarking on the reforms proposed by a succession of inquiries. My outline of health issues for the Albanese Government's second term. Inside Story insidestory.org.au/diagnoses-in-n…

John Edwards on the relevance of "Abundance" for Australia: insidestory.org.au/are-we-getting…

The rise and fall of John Pesutto has all the melancholy of a Shakespearean tragedy - ambition, betrayal, and a Liberal Party that can't decide whether to save him or sacrifice him. James Panichi captures it with rare clarity in Inside Story. insidestory.org.au/the-rise-and-f…

“I would watch Petro Georgiou like a hawk, noticing every word, every roll of his eyes, every impatient snort, even as the inhaled nicotine knocked months off my life.” inside.org.au/the-rise-and-f…

Only just discovered this review of 1945 The Reckoning by Australian writer Ken Haley. And really chuffed!! insidestory.org.au/empires-end/

“What has gone wrong for Starmer? Labour MPs are offering three explanations, none of them giving much comfort to the beleaguered PM.” inside.org.au/benefits-and-c…

“Fortunately for anyone fascinated by the inner workings of political parties, at least one of the 60-plus people on the video conference call recorded it. The transcript of the almost-four-hour grilling makes for compelling reading.” inside.org.au/a-self-proclai…

A revised version of an old essay from me that also appears as 1 of 3 commentaries (others by Robert Manne and Alex McDermott) in a terrific new collection, edited by Chris Feik, from La Trobe University Press: John Hirst: Selected Writings. inside.org.au/a-political-wo…

“In its exploration of self-deception, complicity and surrender, The Director is a heady mixture of the compassionate and the unsparing, the tightly organised and the expansively imagined.” Philippa Hawker reviews Daniel Kehlmann’s latest. Quercus Books inside.org.au/reeled-in-by-t…

The UK's strong new climate test for proposed oil & gas projects casts Australia's environmental impact assessment laws in an unflattering light: my new piece in Inside Story insidestory.org.au/britains-tough… UCL Policy Lab

Now with correct link! insidestory.org.au/britains-tough…

Britain’s tough new test for fossil fuel projects • Inside Story ⁦Anthony Albanese⁩ insidestory.org.au/britains-tough…

Sheila Fitzpatrick's THE DEATH OF STALIN and Linda Jaivin's BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS! THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA reviewed in Inside Story by Andrew Bonnell insidestory.org.au/ghosts-of-dict…

"When I was a law student in the early nineties, I met a federal prosecutor at a party. I told her that she had my dream job, but that I had one worry": insidestory.org.au/a-stitch-in-cr… My review of the new book by Western Australia's first DPP, in Inside Story.

“I got hold of an electronic copy just to confirm that the book omits a word that is perhaps the saddest in Western Australian criminal justice. That word is Mallard.”: insidestory.org.au/a-stitch-in-cr… My review of JohnMcKechnie’s biography/case notes, on Inside Story.

I wrote about Zachary Leader's "Ellmann's Joyce" for Inside Story , on one of the twentieth century's great biographies: insidestory.org.au/richard-ellman…