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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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