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Comment: The Shock Jock Rule of Campbell Newman
John Birmingham
It was Winston Churchill who famously refused to cut funding to the arts to pay for more Spitfires and destroyers...
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The Insult: An incurious encounter takes flight
Peter Robb
It was getting dark and the plane for Darwin was almost full. Well back in Economy, the two seats between me and...
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CULTURE
A Cad and a Gentleman: Michael Winterbottom’s 'Trishna' and David and Stéphane Foenkino’s 'Delicacy'
Luke Davies
Michael Winterbottom, the British director, has made upwards of 20 feature films in little more than 25 years, as...
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WORLD
Comment: Blessed are the Wealth-makers
Don Watson
In 1848 a drover named O’Shaughnessy, the son of a convict, came across a man living in a gunyah in the reed beds...
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Wayne Swan
Once Were Warriors: Forgotten People, Elites and Class Warfare
Nick Dyrenfurth
On 18 January 1886, a remarkable letter to the editor appeared in the pages of the conservative Argus newspaper as...
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SOCIETY
Rockin’ Rupert: Murdoch’s Tweets of Doom
Peter Conrad
Tweeting, as the Beat poets might have said, is for the birds – though what kind of bird exactly? Most users of...
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CULTURE
The Big Tumbleweed: The Docklands and the Broken Wheel
Robyn Annear
In the closing scene of Planet of the Apes, there’s that moment of awful realisation for Charlton Heston’s...
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WORLD
Autumn of the Patriarch: Four Days with José Ramos-Horta
Peter Robb
I got to Dili at seven in the morning and the president of the República Democrática de Timor-Leste arrived from...
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France
A Ferry into the Past: The Story of Billy Blue
Cassandra Pybus
When I was 17 my friend Chloe lived in Lavender Bay, just down the road from the Old Commodore Hotel. I lived...
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CULTURE
A Port for the Soul: Aki Kaurismäki’s 'Le Havre'
Helen Garner
A watchman strolling late one night on the wharves of the French port of Le Havre raps his stick on the side of a...
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POLITICS
Comment: Attack of the Clones
Don Watson
People who watched the first series of Yes Minister might remember a fringe character called Frank Weisel, a young...
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CULTURE
Flag of Convenience: Australia Day in Pyalong
Alice Pung
On the morning of Australia Day, the people of Pyalong notice their flag is missing. Pyalong is in central...
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POLITICS
Same-sex Union: Sydney’s Champion Gay Rugby Team
Benjamin Law
Seven pm and the Bondi sun is still caressing surfers, bikini girls and topless males pulling up from their cliff-...
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Energy
Rejecting the Centre: Chunky Move’s Anouk van Dijk
Christine Kenneally
On a cool January day at Melbourne’s Southbank, the line of dancers for Chunky Move’s morning class is twice as...
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WORLD
Love thy Leader: Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard in Retirement
George Megalogenis
A curious feature of our political debate is the way it compels former prime ministers to lose their dignity in...
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CULTURE
One Last Deadline: Andrew McMillan
Chips Mackinolty
At around 6 am, on the morning after his fifty-fourth birthday and the day before New Year’s Eve, the Darwin...
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SOCIETY
The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia
Wayne Swan
A decade ago, as I waited for my order outside a Maroochydore fish and chip shop, a tall, barefoot young man...
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MEDIA
The Reluctant Son: Lachlan Murdoch and News Corp
Paola Totaro
Seven years ago in New York, the heir apparent to one of the world’s most powerful media conglomerates walked out...
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POLITICS
A Coup By Any Other Name: Kevin Rudd
Rhys Muldoon
They’re putting you through the fire,” I remarked to the prime minister on the first day of winter, 2010. “Is my...
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POLITICS
Status Quota: Do Mandatory Gender Quotas Work?
Cordelia Fine
Despite more than 25 years of anti-discrimination legislation, it remains the case that the higher up any...
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