Having moved so far to the Right, both major parties are perceived by many to have lost touch with...
The Monthly Essays
An affectionate type, she embraces a couple of familiar-looking locals and sits down for a quick...
His father, Anthony, has since graduated to one of Perth’s higher security prisons, which is also...
The fictional version would have been far more fun: a factory burnt down to claim the insurance,...
The Nation Reviewed
The story of the Rudd government falls rather neatly into three discrete chapters. The first involves the fulfilment of promises and the...
1) the geography teacher, Mr Sullivan, loose cheeks, throat and bottom lip, and trousers too loose – always hitching them up; a general...
Mr Abe Lourie is 81, and tells me that he is in perfect health. Every morning he walks up two flights of stairs to open his store. The...
Someone should make a reality TV show called Tuckshop Ladies. The drama would be explosive. Elimination episodes would take...
Arts and Letters
When I taught at an American college in the 1970s, my students asked if I’d mind finishing my...
In discussions about contemporary Australian design, the name of the nineteenth-century American...
In 2004, the UNICEF report Children on the Brink estimated that there were 35 million...
Aarons is a name associated more than any other with communism in Australia. As Marxists used to say...
“Yeah!! Thank God he’s finally dead. I’ve been waiting for this day for-fucking-ever. Party tonight...
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