March 2011
Privacy
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary: Julian Assange
Robert Manne
Julian Assange has told the story of his childhood and adolescence twice, most recently to a journalist from the New Yorker, Raffi...
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CULTURE
Bunyip Bluegum & Albert, A Magic Pudding
Bunyip Bluegum was a fine, round, splendid, well-bred young fellow. Compelled to leave home by the size of his uncle’s whiskers, he set off...
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SOCIETY
'The Many Worlds of RH Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist' By Martin Thomas
Henry Reynolds
With The Many Worlds of RH Mathews, Martin Thomas has brought back anthropologist Robert Hamilton Mathews from almost total obscurity....
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SOCIETY
'How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism' By Eric Hobsbawm
John Keane
My first scholarly encounter with Eric Hobsbawm happened one afternoon at the London School of Economics, in the late spring of ’89. We...
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CULTURE
Economies of Scale: Peter Weir’s 'The Way Back' and Leon Ford’s 'Griff the Invisible'
Helen Garner
Epic is one word people resort to when confronted by a tale like the one Peter Weir tackles in his new movie, The Way Back. Seven prisoners...
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CULTURE
Balancing Acts: David Lee’s 'Stanley Melbourne Bruce' and David Bird’s 'JA Lyons'
Hugh White
Most of us think that for much of Australia’s history we have not really had a foreign policy. We assume our approach to the world has...
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WORLD
Cry Freedom: Niall Ferguson’s 'Civilisation: The West and the Rest'
Malcolm Turnbull
In 1759 Samuel Johnson published his novel Rasselas about an Abyssinian prince who travels through Egypt with his philosopher guide, Imlac...
More ...Maggie’s War: A Chapter in the Life of a Ballet Legend, Margaret Scott
Peter Robb
When her sister was dying in Africa, Maggie flung some things into a bag and flew from Melbourne to the farm in Swaziland she’d hardly seen...
More ...Hard Times: Life after the Intervention
Paul Toohey
My interest in Driver came from a story that appeared some weeks before in the Tennant & District Times, the local paper, on 19...
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WORLD
The Fox News Show: Rupert Murdoch’s Populist Creations
Guy Rundle
It was the usual Palin performance – the sentences tripping over each other, somewhere between natural leader and cheerleader. It’s the...
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ENVIRONMENT
Cannibal Cookery: Channel 7’s 'My Kitchen Rules'
Gay Bilson
Dinner was a large bowl of freshly picked, steamed butter beans with a smidgen of olive oil, lemon juice and herbs. Still hungry, but later...
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CULTURE
Taste-Making: Food Technology and the Manufacture of Flavours
Anna Krien
Jeroen Rens and I are in a small room, wearing hairnets and fluorescent-orange lab coats, looking at plastic drink bottles inside a fridge...
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SOCIETY
The Devil Within: Christian Democratic Party member Peter J Madden
Jack Marx
“What is a man?” asks Peter J Madden, preacher, former sex addict, and heir apparent to the Christian Democratic Party (CDP), led by...
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POLITICS
Comment: NSW Labor
Mark Aarons
Since December, the Keneally government’s political ineptitude has been underscored by its incompetent handling of the unpopular...
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The Cypherpunk Revolutionary: Julian Assange
Robert Manne
Julian Assange has told the story of his childhood and adolescence twice, most recently to a journalist from the New Yorker, Raffi...
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