August 2011
POLITICS
Two Nations: The Case for a National Disability Insurance Scheme
Anne Manne
Seven years ago, while bathing in a private backyard pool, she was terribly injured when a 90 kilogram man accidentally fell on her. The...
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CULTURE
Gourmet Gore: Our Animal Instincts for Eating Meat
Benjamin Law
Here is how you cook a pig’s uterus. First, visit your local abattoir’s Vietnamese section, where they will happily take requests for ‘...
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France
Captain Arthur Phillip & Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse
On 24 January 1788 Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, explorer and navigator, beheld a sight as startling as any he had...
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WORLD
'Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future' By Paul Cleary
Saul Eslake
For commodity-exporting nations such as Australia, the urbanisation and industrialisation of China and India present a once-in-human-...
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WORLD
'Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now' Art Gallery of South Australia
Terry Smith
Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now is another instalment in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s effort to re-badge itself as a...
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WORLD
Air Traffic Out of Control: Satyajit Das’s 'Extreme Money'
Lindsay Tanner
Did you know that the Japanese Ministry of Finance advertises Japanese government bonds by claiming that men who own them are more popular...
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SOCIETY
What’s Sex Got To Do With It: 'Sex: An Unnatural History'
Anne Summers
If I were to nominate the key milestones in the history of human sexual activity – where ‘progress’ is considered to be sex becoming more...
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WORLD
After Life: Wim Wenders’ 'Pina' and Alain Corneau’s 'Love Crime'
Louis Nowra
It was a hot night in Adelaide in 1982 and I was sitting in a ramshackle town hall about to watch a dance piece, Kontakthof, created by a...
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CULTURE
Maybe Baby: 'Rave On Buddy Holly'
Robert Forster
Perhaps it could only happen to a white American boy writing songs and recording music during the first decade of rock ’n’ roll and at a...
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CULTURE
Under the Skin: 'Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons'
Peter Conrad
Until not long ago, Australian nature seemed averse to art. The trees were unkempt and drab, the vistas flat and dry, the colours...
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Energy
Out of the Box: Meeting Lally Katz
Peter Robb
I’m very ambitious!” Lally Katz said, or rather shouted, confidentially, lowering her eyes toward her glass of Aglianico. She looked like a...
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Energy
Coal’s Next Alibi: The Coal Industry’s Coal-fed Algae Plan
Guy Pearse
Imagine a supermarket called Coal’s where everything in your trolley was made with algae fed with carbon dioxide from a large industrial...
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SOCIETY
Comment: Ten Years After Tampa
Peter Mares
John Howard’s stand on the Tampa is generally seen in retrospect as a political masterstroke that stopped the boats and helped him to...
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POLITICS
Comment: Political Leadership in Australia
Don Watson
As the bosses’ grip grows tighter, the membership declines and branches fold. Recently, the stalwart Senator John Faulkner used the word ‘...
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MEDIA
The United States of Chris Mitchell: The Power of Rupert Murdoch and the Australian’s Editor-in-Chief
Sally Neighbour
Talk to any journalist, commentator, politician or public figure in Australia, and it seems they all have a view of Chris Mitchell...
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POLITICS
Prime Minister, Interrupted: Why One Year After the Election Voters Still Don’t Know Who Gillard Is
Annabel Crabb
In return for this triennial exertion, Australian voters implicitly demand a few standards. We don’t have the American horror of big...
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