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Contradictions and challenges in Australian water policy. Lin Crase » Play

Neuroplasticity and the 'use it or lose it' brain. Michael Valenzuela » Play

The Monthly Essays

Louis Nowra | February 2010

Abbott had a simple, happy childhood. Even he recognises that he came from a well-off, middle-class...

Paul Barry | February 2010

To lure the high roller away from Las Vegas, where he was already losing millions – and to lock him...

Anne Manne | February 2010

An ambulance officer looks around the room and breathes in the smell. It looks more like the bleakest...

Sebastian Smee | February 2010

I had been allowed in as a young art critic on assignment. I was there to see the results of the...

The Nation Reviewed

Robert Manne | February 2010

Windschuttle’s argument can be summarised like this. While there were many separations of Aboriginal children from their mothers,...

Anna Goldsworthy | February 2010

“Are you OK, dear?” the nurse asks. Whether I am OK is hardly the issue, when we are surrounded by people screaming. They are trapped in...

Gay Bilson | February 2010

At first glance, the 2010 Adelaide Festival program felt, well, small, in a sensible, tightly fused kind of way, with far fewer...

Paul Kelly | February 2010

In show business, you’re generally either the main act or the warm-up. Over 35 years, I’ve been both. A good show needs different and...

Arts Letters 2009

Peter Conrad | February 2010

Australia’s girdling oceans used to serve as a prophylactic, our defence against the infectious...

Luke Davies | February 2010

In A Prophet, a dazzling new film about innocence and power from Jacques Audiard (director...

Kate Jennings | February 2010

For your consideration: “A naked woman my age is just a total nightmare.” Now there’s a rip-snorting...

Simon Leys | February 2010

The bitterness of an interrupted life is nothing compared to the bitterness of an interrupted work:...

John Keane | February 2010

In Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values (...

Letters to the editor

Unlike Louis Nowra, I love sitting in a movie theatre with no one around me. However, I agreed with much of his...

In general I’m inclined to agree with Louis Nowra (‘Nowhere Near Hollywood’), but I think there may be larger causes...

While there were plenty of errors in David Marr’s piece on the Anglican Diocese of Sydney’s financial losses (‘...

In advocating the right to download software, movies or television programs without paying for any of them, Charles...

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