David Marr
The Politics of News: David McKnight’s 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Power'
David Marr
Australian journalists have a sad history of going off to Washington to be ruined. They leave home the hope of the side but after a visit...
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Books, Arts & Letters
Age of Innocence: Frank Moorhouse’s 'Cold Light'
David Marr
Edith Campbell Berry has crashed to earth in Canberra circa 1950. She is no longer wanted abroad. All her years at the League of Nations...
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Books, Arts & Letters
The Magic of Exile: Anna Funder’s 'All That I Am'
David Marr
To those who fled the Nazis in the middle of the 1930s, the British gave only temporary protection. Their visas stipulated “no political...
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The late, great Patrick White. Feat. David Marr, Kerry Walker
Part 1 | Part 2 Launching its series on Australian literary legends, The Wheeler Centre presents this talk about the incomparable Nobel...
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Power Trip. David Marr talks to Robert Manne about Rudd's political journey
Part 1 | Part 2David Marr recently wrote the most talked-about essay of the year so far, his Quarterly Essay 38, Power Trip: The Political...
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The Nation Reviewed
Comment: Anglican Business
David Marr
Sydney’s brand new archbishop wanted money – lots and lots of money – to persuade 400,000 souls in the nation’s most sinful city “to serve...
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The Indian Ocean Solution: Christmas Island
David Marr
The Jaffaris are Hazaras from Afghanistan, a people long persecuted as Shia Muslims in a country overwhelmingly Sunni. Sharif was still a...
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Launch: The Red Highway. Nicolas Rothwell, with introduction by David Marr
In this Sydney Writers' Festival event, David Marr 'launches' Nicolas Rothwell's The Red Highway. Following this, Rothwell...
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Annabel Crabb with David Marr on the life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull
David Marr
Part 1 | Part 2 Writer and journalist Annabel Crabb speaks to David Marr about the subject of her new Quarterly Essay, Stop At Nothing: The...
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The Nation Reviewed
Panic & Censor
David Marr
I was putting on a bit of dog for the fresh envoy of a Great European Nation. This was deep in the Howard era, and we were drinking coffee...
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