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POLITICS

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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