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Comment: Phoney Education
Don Watson
The best measure of the boon these phones have been is to recall the woe of life before them. Just 15 years ago on...
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SOCIETY
Island Rising: Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour
Fiona McGregor
Is there any place more typical of Sydney’s protean nature than Cockatoo Island? A decade ago, it was a wasteland...
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SOCIETY
Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning
Peter Hartcher
It was Carnegie, son of the arch-establishment businessman Sir Rod Carnegie, who emerged as the media star of the...
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SOCIETY
The Lady Killers: Women in the Military
Anne Summers
A few years later, that soldier asked the other three officers who had assisted her maiden fast-rope that day to...
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CULTURE
No One Comes To See Me Now: Manoly Lascaris and Patrick White’s ghost
Debra Adelaide
Three days a week, in the winter of 1993, I would drive the children to day care and continue to 20 Martin Road,...
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CULTURE
An Auteur Planet: Pedro Almodóvar’s 'The Skin I Live In' and Lars von Trier’s 'Melancholia'
Peter Conrad
Ah, to be an auteur, with the power to impose your own kinked or crazy worldview on reality! Pleasing only...
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CULTURE
At the Condamine Crossroads Motel
Janette Turner ...
Meg parks right between the goal posts of the Welcome to Condamine sign. Small print below Condamine, white...
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POLITICS
Comment: Palin Politics and the Tea Party
Don Watson
The fact of the automobile for instance; and Big Oil, which fuelled it; and the strip malls, which made the car...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
It Tolls for Thee: Generation Text
Guy Pearse
Ping! New message received. “Hi, this is Dr Carl O’Kane from the Townsville Hospital emergency department. I was...
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CULTURE
London Calling: The Ledbury
MJ Hyland
On 8 August, during the London riots, Brett Graham’s restaurant, The Ledbury, was invaded by looters. “There were...
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CULTURE
A Small Breed: The Portuguese Podengo
Sonya Hartnett
Among the canine entrants on the third day of competition at this year’s Royal Melbourne Show – the ethereal...
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SOCIETY
A Journey through North-western NSW with Filmmaker Ivan Sen
Peter Robb
Ivan Sen was heading for the place that gives its name to his new film Toomelah, the place where he made the film...
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POLITICS
The Book of Paul: Lessons in Leadership and Paul Keating
George Megalogenis
Comparisons between leaders can be unfair to the incumbent because the one with the job has yet to receive the...
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POLITICS
Window Dressing: The Mirage of Political Reform
Lindsay Tanner
Such sentiments are understandable but misguided. The rules that govern how our political system works matter, but...
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SOCIETY
Caught in the Game: The Rise of the Sports Betting Industry
Jonathan Horn
Like his brother, Reverend Tim Costello is an Essendon supporter. He was watching the game on television and it...
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WORLD
A Quiet Anniversary: AIDS 30 Years on
Gail Bell
The taming of HIV/AIDS is Australia’s good news story. Our swift, egalitarian response – the so-called ‘Australian...
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ENVIRONMENT
What We Learned in Copenhagen
Andrew Charlton
At 10.45 p.m. my phone rang. “The Danes are switching to the back-up plan,” a voice said. “Room 20. 11.30 tonight...
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WORLD
When the Centre Cannot Hold: Joan Didion’s 'Blue Nights'
Inga Clendinnen
Along with many others, I was first drawn to Joan Didion when I read her 1967 essay ‘Slouching towards Bethlehem...
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POLITICS
New Labor Dreaming: Troy Bramston’s 'Looking for the Light on the Hill'
Maxine McKew
Coming from New South Wales, a state that has made an artform of decapitating leaders, Bramston doesn’t always...
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CULTURE
Age of Innocence: Frank Moorhouse’s 'Cold Light'
David Marr
Edith Campbell Berry has crashed to earth in Canberra circa 1950. She is no longer wanted abroad. All her years at...
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