The Monthly Essays
POLITICS
Divided We Fall: The Australian Greens Party
Sally Neighbour
*Nine days after the Christmas drinks in Canberra, a far more toxic atmosphere prevails as the NSW Greens assemble for their bi-monthly...
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SOCIETY
So Who the Bloody Hell Are You?: Scott Morrison
Nick Bryant
In a country that has always exhibited a fickle streak towards foreigners heading for its shores, Scott Morrison is especially well...
More ...Angry Boys: Republicans and the US Presidential Race
Julia Baird
The Family Table Restaurant is a small, dingy diner in Atlantic, Iowa, the state known as the Hawkeye State, that claims to be the corn...
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WORLD
The Elephant in the Room: Australia–India Relations
Michael Wesley
Great expectations attend the Australia–India relationship. The Labor Party’s agreement to sell uranium to India has removed a major...
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POLITICS
All About Cory: Cory Bernardi, Conservative Warrior
Sally Neighbour
“When you first come into this place, all the walls are blank, and after the first bonhomie’s done and people say hello, you’re left alone...
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WORLD
In the Picture: Burma
Sebastian Strangio
The woman they call the Lady is all over town, staring down from the walls of teashops, hanging on sun-dappled street corners, perched on...
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SOCIETY
Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning
Peter Hartcher
It was Carnegie, son of the arch-establishment businessman Sir Rod Carnegie, who emerged as the media star of the Gillard government’s tax...
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SOCIETY
CanDo? Campbell Newman’s Bid for Queensland
Nick Bryant
Crestfallen conservatives would have drawn little consolation from the potentially morale-boosting fact that Brisbane City Council is the...
More ...The Lady Killers: Women in the Military
Anne Summers
A few years later, that soldier asked the other three officers who had assisted her maiden fast-rope that day to be bridesmaids at her...
More ...The Book of Paul: Lessons in Leadership and Paul Keating
George Megalogenis
Comparisons between leaders can be unfair to the incumbent because the one with the job has yet to receive the clemency of political...
More ...MEDIA
New Teeth for Aunty: Reinvigorating the National Broadcaster
Robert Manne
This outline of my daily routine should at least make one thing clear: the ABC plays a very important part in my life. As it does for very...
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Club Rules: The Phoney War on Bikie Gangs
Adam Shand
The strength of that commitment will soon be tested. The South Australian premier, Mike Rann, has just enacted what he calls the toughest...
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CULTURE
The Life Not Lived: Reflections on Scholarship
Peter Robb
Donaldson’s eyes narrowed when I mentioned Oxford’s own great edition of Jonson. Eleven thick octavo volumes printed magnificently and...
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POLITICS
A Turkish Tale: Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide
Robert Manne
During the exact time Australian troops spent in hell on Gallipoli, another event of world-historical importance was taking place on...
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POLITICS
Prime Minister, Interrupted: Why One Year After the Election Voters Still Don’t Know Who Gillard Is
Annabel Crabb
In return for this triennial exertion, Australian voters implicitly demand a few standards. We don’t have the American horror of big...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Stars My Destination
Luke Davies
Yet viewed on even larger scales, the sense of our tenure here can become positively claustrophobic. There’s really nowhere to go when you...
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ENVIRONMENT
What We Learned in Copenhagen
Andrew Charlton
At 10.45 p.m. my phone rang. “The Danes are switching to the back-up plan,” a voice said. “Room 20. 11.30 tonight.” I pulled on my suit...
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Murdoch's War: How a lovestruck teenager, an angry man and an ambitious baron made sure bad news was no news on the path to Iraq
Robert Manne
Four months later on January 17, 2003, the Hobart Mercury was singing the standard Murdoch tune:History is littered with the victims of...
More ...Faith in Politics
Kevin Rudd
Three weeks before the end of World War II, Bonhoeffer was hanged by the SS because of his complicity in the plot to assassinate Adolf...
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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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7 February 2012
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