Don Watson
The Nation Reviewed
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 of the Lachlan River with...
More ...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 man of little apparent...
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The Nation Reviewed
Comment: Address to the US President: Draft for a Prime Minister’s Address on the Occasion of Another Visit from the President of the United States
Don Watson
Mr President, Thank you for making room in your busy schedule to see me while you are in Darwin. In the short time I have at your disposal...
More ...Comment: Phoney Education
Don Watson
The best measure of the boon these phones have been is to recall the woe of life before them. Just 15 years ago on trams and trains people...
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The Nation Reviewed
Comment: Palin Politics and the Tea Party
Don Watson
The fact of the automobile for instance; and Big Oil, which fuelled it; and the strip malls, which made the car indispensable to commerce,...
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The Nation Reviewed
Comment: ABC’s The Book Show and Ramona Koval
Don Watson
Still, it might be apt enough for the ABC. What nobler ambitions does the national broadcaster have than uniting Australians in their...
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Recollections (of a Bleeding Heart): Don Watson in Conversation
Don Watson
Don Watson reflects on ten years since the publication of his acclaimed biography, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart. Don Watson was Paul...
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The Nation Reviewed
Riding High: The Toyota HiLux and the Tradie’s New World
Don Watson
Climb into a Toyota HiLux and at once you feel “the commanding outlook”. It’s just as the brochure says. Nissan Navara lacks very little in...
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The Nation Reviewed
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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Fair share. Judith Brett and Don Watson
In her new Quarterly Essay, Fair Share: Country and City in Australia, Judith Brett explores an increasingly problematic division in...
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