February 2006
Infomation Idol: How Google is Making Us Stupid
Gideon Haigh
Google is synonymous, too, with speed and simplicity. But nothing about it has been speedier or simpler than its rise. It is not a decade...
More ...POLITICS
Comment: Global Warming
Robert Manne
2005 was the warmest year in the history of Australia and the second warmest in the history of the Earth since records have been kept. Ten...
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WORLD
A Twitch in Time
Clare Barker
Since the recent publication of Alan McArthur’s and Steve Lowe’s Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? the media has been full of comment...
More ...Sexyland
Michelle Griffin
No sooner had the Sexyland staff packed away the Santa lingerie with the faux-fur trim than it was time to haul out the merchandise for the...
More ...Tell Them I Said Something
Simon Leys
Some time ago, newspapers reported the results of an inquiry conducted among the general public to determine “the hundred most beautiful...
More ...ECONOMICS
Some Velvet Mourning
Bridget Griffen...
Plenty of the latter, but little of the former sentiment has been expressed, publicly at least, in the weeks following Kerry Packer’s death...
More ...WORLD
Crouching Tiger: After years of struggle Vietnam’s economy is finally improving. But will the lights stay on?
John Button
Two kilometres from the Ana Mandara, atop a small hill, is Vietnam’s largest statue of Buddha. At the foot of the hill is the Long Son...
More ...The Man in Black: James Mangold's 'Walk the Line'
Helen Garner
California, 1968. Not a flowerchild in sight. The camera edges up to the grim granite walls of Folsom Prison. The exercise yards are empty...
More ...Welcome to the New Neil: Master Producer Rick Rubin’s Reinvention of Neil Diamond.
Robert Forster
Neil Diamond and Rick Rubin are like two trains coming from opposite directions. Diamond is the veteran: forty years in the business, hit...
More ...Dating Longing: The Work of Mutlu Çerkez
Justin Clemens
Born in London in 1964 to Turkish Cypriot parents, Çerkez finished his studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, in 1987. He...
More ...WORLD
The Sea: 'The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper' by Simon Leys
Peter Robb
We came from the sea and we keep something of it in us. Its salt is still in our blood and its words remain in our mind – we fly now, but...
More ...'The Old Country: Australian Landscapes, Plants and People' by George Seddon
Alan Saunders
When is Australia going to stop being young? I may have miscounted but, as far as I can see, of the 193 independent nations states listed...
More ...'Family Wanted: Adoption Stories' edited by Sara Holloway
Anne Manne
Happenstance, Daniel Menaker calls it, the utterly contingent nature of our lives. Family Wanted is an anthology of essays by some very...
More ...Errol Flynn & Fidel Castro
Oh Errol, sang Australian Crawl in their hymn to Tasmania’s gift to swashbuckling, I would give everything just to be like him. Such was...
More ...Comment
Clive James
The nickname ‘Diamond Jim’ fitted James McClelland the way ‘Big Julie from Chicago’ fitted the gangster in Guys and Dolls who rolled...
More ...Uncle Malcolm
Martin Flanagan
“You should write about Uncle Malcolm,” Lenny Clarke told me one day. Lenny’s a Kirrae Wurrung man. He lives on his traditional lands,...
More ...Game Dame in a Doona
Clare Barker
Most people are familiar with the concepts of the Yummy Mummy – the gym-toned career woman with child who manages to stay fanciable – and...
More ...2024
Malcolm Knox
“The event that dislocated our period from the last was September 11.” “Oh-one. Twin Towers. Splatter patterns. It’s raining men,...
More ...Enrolment Daze: Freedom, order and The Golden Bead Material: a parent’s dilemma
Amanda Lohrey
In the years since then, I’ve observed with enduring fascination the many parents I’ve known who have agonised over their children’s...
More ...John Howard in Toytown: Hip politics at the Sydney Museum of Contempory Art
Justin Clemens
Recent laboratory work on locusts has shown that they can be turned from their harmless “solidarious” phase to a predatory “gregarious” one...
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