A steel worker in China. Iron ore is the lifeblood of the Chinese economy. China digs in
Rowan Callick WITH Chinese firms buying up our assets, Australia needs to rapidly establish the ground rules.
Redemption calls
HOW will Victorian police commissioner, Christine Nixon, soon to stand down to head the bushfires recovery taskforce, but already with o...
On the edge
George Megalogenis MANY live on the margin of the city and are on the margins of the economy. What measures were taken to protect them?
Democracy proves a winner
Anita Barraud INDONESIA, the world's largest Islamic nation, is heading for its third parliamentary election since the fall of Suharto in 1998.
Out goes rulebook in face of ferocity
Jamie Walker EVEN in a single neighbourhood, the stay-or-go argument is split.
Suffocating in a state of secrecy
John Hartigan OUR rights to information have been chipped away. The creep toward secrecy has been gradual, but constant.
Tough guy on collision course
John Lyons, Middle East correspondent THE new force in Israeli politics, Avigdor Lieberman, sweeps into the ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem just after midnigh...
Ground zero makes the cynical weep
Julie-Anne Davies, Stuart Rintoul, Milanda Rout, Jamie Walker and Corrie Perkin JOURNALISTS who covered the Victorian bushfires throughout the scene for Inquirer.
Mystery of a deadly act
Rowan Callick EVEN though 30,000 fires are deliberately lit each year, police have little information about arsonists' motivations.
Living with the embers
Simon Caterson BUSHFIRES have a strong hold on the Australian psyche and culture.
Saviour of the Union
Stephen Matchett ABRAHAM Lincoln's empathy for humanity enabled him to be a supreme politician.
Assignment into inferno
Stuart McEvoy STUART McEvoy tells how it felt to be first at the fire front.
Keeping tabs on the pyromaniacs
IT'S a scheme that has been credited with significantly reducing the number of deliberately lit fires in South Australia and has also be...
Sorry state of affairs
Nicolas Rothwell A YEAR after the apology, Aborigines have only the fading afterglow.
All food leaves a footprint
Adam Cresswell EGGPLANTS have travelled only 2.5km to get to Peter Kenyon's organic food shop in Turramurra, in Sydney's north, this week, because he g...
Recipe for disaster
Adam Cresswell Soaring food prices, global warming and natural disasters have experts worried that the world is facing a food crunch.
Forgotten saviours
D.D. McNicoll THE search and rescue vessels based at the naval college HMAS Creswell in Jervis Bay were on standby whenever major naval exercises invo...
Scorched earth
Asa Wahlquist THE long-term forecast is hot and dry, with frequent mega-fires: all we can do is learn to live with them.