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Collateral Damage. Kim Barker and Paul Ham

is a Sydney-based historian. His books include Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Vietnam: The Australian War (2007) ...

SlowTV - admin - 2012-04-11 15:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

One Morning with Malcolm

attracted to is not so much greater equality of outcome or even opportunity but what the historian John ...

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

Once Were Warriors

a hallowed place in Liberal sloganeering. As historian Judith Brett has shown, they were central to Robert ...

The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A Ferry into the Past

a historian, obsessively haunting the archives for the loss and longing contained in the stories of runaway ...

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

Children’s Lib

versions of the history of childhood. For historians like Lloyd deMause, childhood was a “long nightmare ... expense.” This, then, is a tale almost unbelievable in its horror to modern eyes. Yet other historians ... Feminism, Historians, Parenting, The Conflict: Woman and Mother) ...

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

Love thy Leader

have become Australia’s resident historians by default, even if the commemoration they promote ... Gough Whitlam, Historians, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Fraser, Memoir, ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2012-03-07 15:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Payback: The Bullying Tactics of the Murdoch Press

these archives. I conducted part of this research myself. I also employed an experienced historian and colleague ...

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

The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia

of the most eloquent defenders of social democracy, historian and philosopher Tony Judt, was getting at when ...

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

The Looks Department

capacity to feel the usual range of emotions. Medical historian Arthur Weston predicts that within two ...

The Monthly - Tanveer Ahmed - 2012-02-07 15:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Cypherpunk Revolutionary

known as PGP, “Pretty Good Privacy”. The seminal historian of codes, David Kahn, argued ... on the internet. On the basis of what historians call primary evidence, the mind and character of Julian Assange ...

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

The Life Not Lived

Florey and New Zealand’s physicist Ernest Rutherford. Ronald Syme, the historian of ancient Rome, came ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Gendercide

by the best-selling Chinese oral historian Xinran. In April, the focus turned to India, as the new film Petals ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-06-10 14:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A Quiet Anniversary

(GRID). Melbourne historian John Foster left a remarkable, beautifully written memoir that captures ...

The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2011-11-30 12:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

1835: The Founding of Melbourne. James Boyce in Conversation

Festival event, historian and author James Boyce tells Peter Mares (ABC-RN) some of the surprising facts ...

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'The Street Sweeper' By Elliot Perlman

historian struggling to retain his professorship at Columbia University. Adam is suffering his own sense ...

The Monthly - Kirsten Tranter - 2011-10-06 13:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

“Name Ten”: The journalism of Andrew Bolt

historians work with, and if he felt compelled to read it, he would either understand his ignorance ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-10-24 09:45 - 28 comments - 0 attachments

Bodying Forth

Politics of Sex’ issue of Time magazine in 1970. In 1972 the art historian Linda Nochlin wrote about ... she did have a foothold and it was extended when, in 1938, the American art historian Robert Goldwater ...

The Monthly - Drusilla Modjeska - 2011-10-06 13:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Clean As You Go

but still Australian after all these years. The Quadrant editor and historian Keith Windschuttle ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2011-10-11 11:33 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Deconstructing Paul Kelly

Windschuttle”, the historian who, in the first volume of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History , characterised ... is undoubtedly the most reactionary Australian historian since the 1960s whose work threatens to revive ... indifference and racial denigration. He is also a very bad historian. His claim, for example, ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-09-19 17:37 - 24 comments - 0 attachments

Toleration and the future of Europe

Toleration and the future of Europe "Breivik's manifesto recalls Hannah Arendt's point that those who do great evil may themselves be incapable of cultural creation. The superficiali ...

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'Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now' Art Gallery of South Australia

It is the first example of art terminology coined by a collector that has stuck with art historians. Explaining ... australia) (August 2011, Arts & Letters, Noted, Historians, Painting, Sculpture, Social Media) ...

The Monthly - Terry Smith - 2011-08-04 12:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Air Traffic Out of Control

historian co-authored or edited it. Nevertheless, the book is highly readable and informative, and Das’s ...

The Monthly - Lindsay Tanner - 2011-08-04 12:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Under the Skin

outback. In 1947 the art historian Kenneth Clark sympathised with Sidney Nolan’s early efforts to paint ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-08-31 17:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Unacknowledged legislators read culture like a text

Unacknowledged legislators read culture like a text "WHEN historians look back at the interregnum of reason that followed the events of 9/11, they will surely mention two curious facts: in the early years of the 21st century, liberal America got its ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments

The United States of Chris Mitchell

‘exclusive’ about the historian Manning Clark. A journalist who was there recounts how the story came about. ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-03 12:03 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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