Nick Dyrenfurth

Nick Dyrenfurth is the co-editor of All That's Left, co-author of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party and author of Heroes and Villains.

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The Nation Reviewed

Once Were Warriors: Forgotten People, Elites and Class Warfare

Nick Dyrenfurth

On 18 January 1886, a remarkable letter to the editor appeared in the pages of the conservative Argus newspaper as a bitter wharfies’...

The Nation Reviewed

Comment: Noam Chomsky and the Sydney Peace Prize

Nick Dyrenfurth

It was a sublime moment of coincidence. In the midst of reading The Finkler Question, English novelist Howard Jacobson’s comic meditation...

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