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The Nation Reviewed
Comment: The Shock Jock Rule of Campbell Newman
John Birmingham
It was Winston Churchill who famously refused to cut funding to the arts to pay for more Spitfires and destroyers during the grimmest days...
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Gala Night of Storytelling: Sonya Hartnett, J. Birmingham, Archie Roach
Part 1 (Name Le, Mem Fox, Abha Dabesar) | Part 2 The Wheeler Centre's Gala Night of Storytelling 2011 features leading authors from...
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The Monthly Essays
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks
John Birmingham
Semantics aside, it remained a benighted sinkhole, although nearly 1300 years of fierce parochialism and independence shone through even...
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Noted
'Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests' by Anna Krien
John Birmingham
Tasmania is another country, sometimes another world. To move beyond the edge of settlement, which largely peters out a short drive from...
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Noted
'Brisbane' by Matthew Condon
John Birmingham
Cities have memories that outlive those who first held them. London will always recall the Blitz, Rome the glories of empire. Some memories...
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'War' by Sebastian Junger
John Birmingham
It might seem strange and contrary, but among the many surprising truths in Sebastian Junger’s brilliant evocation of 15 months, on and off...
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Failed State: New South Wales
John Birmingham
You cannot blame them, because Perry’s restaurant, located in a grand old insurance building, does soar. To stand in the entry foyer is to...
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Changing Frontiers: The National Party
John Birmingham
The Flinthart of that once-upon-a-time rarely flinched from the confronting, and occasionally violent, practice of direct action when...
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Mash-up: A Short History of the Media Future
John Birmingham
The formal library, in contrast, has none of this. Occupying the centre of the original house, its one nod to modernity is a rather groovy...
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Looking West: Australia and the Indian Ocean
John Birmingham
In the Australian imagination, for the most part, the future arrives every day from the east, where the sun’s first rays wash over the...
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