La Trobe University 6115881 A political tsunami appears to be hitting the Australian Labor Party ... Lake, Professor of History at La Trobe University. Presented by La Trobe University, Ideas ...

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in Australian history it might just be an icon of the other side of politics, Gough Whitlam, insofar as having ... Fitzgerald put it, Newman will lead a team of ministers with “ambitions which, if history is a guide, might ...

The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2012-05-03 11:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Addressing this fundamentally important topic for Australians is Paul French, Michael Wesley and Chetan ... of Asian History; Michael Wesley is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute; and Chetan Bhagat is "the biggest selling English language novelist in India's history" (NY Times) and one of Time ...

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(April 2012, Books, Anthropology, Australian History, Biography, Carl Strehlow, Frieda Keysser, Scholars) ... Australians and others. In scores of places they were the primary structure of the new economics; most ... parts of the country, the missions played a powerfully ambivalent role in the histories of their inmates ...

The Monthly - Peter Sutton - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

that “the reign of Billy is coeval with the foundation of the Colony”, while the editor of the Australian ... There was nothing for it but for me to find out just who this Billy Blue was. The Australian Dictionary ... to fight in Germany. Reading military history had by now informed me that the war with Germany was over ...

The Monthly - Cassandra Pybus - 2012-05-01 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

interest in the balancing virtue of equality, Turnbull disagrees. Like most Australians, he regards himself ... Hirst has called the typical form of Australian egalitarianism, the “equality of manners”. Turnbull ... as a student at Oxford. His ideal community, rather, is the Australian surf club, where wealthy bankers rub ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the party – to remove one of the more popular Prime Ministers in recent Australian history, the man who led ... and the four and a half years of Rudd and Gillard. In the recent history of the Labor Party – during the period ... for two and a half years Kevin Rudd led one of the most popular governments in post-war Australian ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments

Farewell, Dame Edna " Dame Edna lived the fame that she satirized. Her very presence, when staged against the grandees of the day - the Queen Mother, Princess Diana, Sir Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister - turned history ...

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those who write for example on literature or military history or Australian nineteenth century gardens. ... The Australian is not a subtle newspaper. But it certainly has a genius for timing. Within ... senior reporters, Ean Higgins, phoned me at work. He informed me that the Australian had gained ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-07 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

daughter of the Western Australian mining magnate, the late Lang Hancock, one of the most right-wing Australians of the postwar era. As reported recently by Jane Cadzow in the Good Weekend , Hancock once ... of what Lord Monckton said: Is there an Australian version of Fox News? No. This is the thing I’ve ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

versions of the history of childhood. For historians like Lloyd deMause, childhood was a “long nightmare ... One day, puzzling over these two versions of history, I got up from my desk and went to the books ... way to the section on taboo. Flashing out to illuminate this extraordinary history and all its ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

of our history and our national character, as well as the institutions and safeguards built up over more ... the greatest Australian achievements of the last two centuries: a living wage, a welfare system, public health ... born or who your parents are. Across 17 OECD economies, Australians in the bottom 20% of income earners ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

backbenchers and backroom boys “backgrounding” the media against Rudd. The Australian had been savaging Rudd ... The Australian had been savaging Rudd almost daily; clearly something had gone down with its editor, Chris ... Muldoon?” “Yes.” “Phone call for you.” It wasn’t a phone call. It was the Australian Federal ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

Isogawa with great caution and serious questions. How was it that a designer so absorbed in the history ... himself is not particularly tall, and a lot slenderer than any other 47-year-old Australian you’re likely ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-02-07 16:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the first time in history that a dominant power has provided another with such a boost to the top table. ... everything it loathed or feared in the world. Australians, a small but rich population in control ... Australia has never come to grips. But despite this troubled history, new dynamics are drawing Australia ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of as a possible future Liberal leader, Australians could be forgiven for asking: ‘Who the bloody hell are you?’ ... history, with the right and left factions waging an internecine war. Morrison was not backed by either side ... an out-of-court settlement). There were dark mutterings, as well, that a Lebanese Australian could never win ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the history-steeped capital built by the British; instead, it combines the scant peri-urban charms of the Australian ... Burma’s leaders “want to get rid of the old history, whatever they’ve done,” Redmond tells me over drinks ...

The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

For better or for worse, unlike most commentators, my judgments about Australian politics are generally formed not by conversations with Canberra insiders but almost solely by reading history books, ... entirely non-contentious conclusion. Kevin Rudd led one of the most popular governments in Australian ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments

in Australian political history, two significant left-of-centre parties in Australia. Labor received 38% ... The opinion poll results over the past eight months are as bad for an Australian government ... its position? There is at least one precedent in our recent history for a dramatic revival ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-11-23 10:28 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

of the Year”. If Rupert Murdoch, who recently turned eighty, is the most influential Australian of the post-war era, Julian Assange, who will soon turn forty, is undoubtedly the most consequential Australian ... was first discovered. The Australian Federal Police conducted a long investigation into the International ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Culture, Australian Traditions, Cronulla Riots, Gender, Ghassan Hage, History of Australia, HRAFF, Human ... them with the rape convictions of Middle Eastern Australian men in Western Sydney. His comments, ... of Lebanese Australian boys were doing at Cronulla was not asserting their difference but rather embracing ...

The Monthly - Malcolm Knox - 2011-03-16 10:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

free-speech protections as white Australians, yet here was a man talking of misuse of power among his own ... as an Australian citizen to keep informed. When the intervention was announced in June 2007, Driver had his eyes ... were alienated and neglected by our fellow Australians. We weren’t even acknowledged to exist ...

The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(December 2011 - January 2012, Noted, Aboriginal People, Australian History, Bill Gammage, The Biggest ... environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant ... that reflected a sophisticated, successful and sensitive farming regime integrated across the Australian ...

The Monthly - James Boyce - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

by tradition, the New World had a history of throwing up new methods, the fresh solutions. No, they showed ... home, Australians like to be chatty, not that anyone anywhere thinks or cares about what they say. He ...

The Monthly - Murray Bail - 2011-01-04 05:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A lock of hair and the new history of humankind "DNA from the hair demonstrates that indigenous Aboriginal Australians were the first to separate from other modern humans, around 70,000 years ago." ...

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