October 2007
POLITICS
Comment: The Economic Myths of Peter Costello
Andrew Charlton
On 23 September 2004, three days before the launch of his re-election campaign, John Howard visited the marginal seat of Deakin in the...
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POLITICS
Billy Hughes & Woodrow Wilson
The president of the United States did not have a high opinion of the prime minister of Australia. "A pestiferous varmint", he called him....
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‘The Book is Dead: Long Live the Book’ by Sherman Young
Chris Womersley
This is a tidy manifesto which argues that, in the same way news has become separated from newspapers, and radio programs (think podcasting...
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‘The Door’ by Margaret Atwood
Greg McLaren
In predicting that "Time will curve like a wind," the speaker in ‘One Day You Will Reach ...' hints at the flow and architecture of this...
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A Righteous Certainty: Paul Toohey’s ‘The Killer Within’
John Birmingham
Lawyers are a bit like junkies in some ways. If you let one into your life, you might as well throw open the door to a crack house full of...
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Politics, Writing, Love: Writing ‘The Unknown Terrorist’
Richard Flanagan
I met David Hicks not long before he was released from Guantanamo Bay. He was drinking Makers Mark bourbon in a bar in Greenwood, a fading...
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A Desert Inside: Saul Friedländer’s ‘The Years of Extermination’
Robert Manne
The first volume of Saul Friedländer's history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939, was...
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Low-Flying Aircraft: Werner Herzog’s ‘Rescue Dawn’
Luke Davies
In 1987, in Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg introduced a new actor, the young Christian Bale, as Jim - playing, to all intents and...
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The Way of Horse: At the Track with Brian Mayfield-Smith
Craig Sherborne
Racing people are the nicest people in the world, say the richer racing folk. They say that because they are winning. Losing will lose them...
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The Collector: Karel Kupka in north Australia
Nicolas Rothwell
This arrival, which would have life-changing consequences for Kupka, and open a new chapter in Western appreciation of Aboriginal cultures...
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Le Parti, C'est Moi: Liberal Leaders Since Menzies
Mungo MacCallum
The reasons for this preoccupation with control go back to the circumstances of the party's creation. It was, of course, the invention...
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ECONOMICS
Backing the Truck Up
Gideon Haigh
Australians go to the polls this month in elections with a huge bearing on their future prosperity, in which they will not only return...
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SOCIETY
Caveat Emptor
Alice Pung
There are two important things your Chinese parents will teach you in life. First, don't owe any debts; and secondly, own your own property...
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The Flatbed Scanner of Democracy
Charles Firth
It is vitally important to the health of Australian democracy and the economy that everyone buys a flatbed scanner.A few weeks ago I was...
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SOCIETY
Written in the Body
Ashley Hay
On a table of its own, in the pulmonary section of the Museum of Human Disease at the University of New South Wales, sits a solid-looking...
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