I am unable to infer from Keane’s review of my book, Liberty in the Age of Terror (‘Liberal Fundamentalist...
Martin climbs off his bike and walks through the piles of rubbish towards the verandah. It’s then...
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The Monthly Essays
Margaret Simons
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March 2010
Davis mentions the book when I ask him why, at a time when the higher education sector is more...
Louis Nowra
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March 2010
I was the first person in my family to go to university. I had a chip on my shoulder about having...
Louis Nowra
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February 2010
The two days I spent in emergency, I whiled away my time trying to block my ears to the cries of...
The Nation Reviewed
Robert Manne
Over 200 years ago human beings began burning large quantities of the coal, oil and natural gas that had been buried under the Earth’s...
Arnold Zable
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March 2010
A year on from the Black Saturday fires, there’s a perverse beauty in the burnt forests, a striking interplay of black and green. The...
Anna Funder
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March 2010
Not long ago I stood at the edge of my local pool in inner Sydney looking forward to getting a load off my feet – not that I had seen...
Alan Saunders
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March 2010
Eugene Kamenka, supervisor of my doctorate at ANU, expert on Marxian thought and a man who would never have thought his name would...
Arts Letters 2009
Alan Saunders
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March 2010
Eugene Kamenka, supervisor of my doctorate at ANU, expert on Marxian thought and a man who would...
Clare Press
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March 2010
“Are not the colours exquisite? And see how intricate the patterns.” So said the two swindlers intent...
Peter Conrad
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March 2010
In 1987 on her British talk show, Dame Edna Everage abruptly asked Sir John Mills when he intended to...
Tim Soutphommasane
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March 2010
Malcolm Fraser tells a story about his time as army minister in the 1960s administering conscription...
Robert Forster
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March 2010
When is Tasmania going to produce some great bands? It must be soon, if only through the converging...
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Letters to the editor
I was utterly shocked by Sebastian Smee’s irresponsible article ‘The Outsiders’ (February). Anthony Waterlow is yet...
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...
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