Robert Manne
Robert Manne is a professor of politics at La Trobe University and has twice been voted Australia's leading public intellectual. He is the author of Left, Right, Left: Political Essays, 1977-2005 and Making Trouble. Visit his blog. See also The Stolen Generations - a documentary collection
Power Without Responsibility: The Australian – Manne & Beecher
Renowned essayist and public intellectual Robert Manne discusses his new Quarterly Essay 43 on the Australian newspaper...
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Bad News: Robert Manne on Murdoch's Australian
Robert Manne
This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of...
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The Critical Decade. Tim Flannery, with Robert Manne
Amidst the heated debate around the introduction of a carbon tax in Australia, leading environmentalist Tim Flannery shares his views with...
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What is Labor's Future?: Mark Latham with Robert Manne
Part 1 | Part 2 (Question time) In this frank and insightful discussion held subsequent to the NSW state election, Mark Latham talks to...
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The Monthly Essays
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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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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Does social democracy have a future? Merkel, Manne, Gallop, Lake
Part 1 | Part 2 At this La Trobe University event, keynote speaker Professor Wolfgang Merkel, Professor of Political Science at the...
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Books, Arts & Letters
Man of Wood: Robert Manne on John Howard’s 'Lazarus Rising'
Robert Manne
Having wrestled with this long and boring book for six entire days, I was astonished when I finally realised how little I had discovered...
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Asylum seekers and Australian democracy: Manne, Lake, Burnside, Megalogenis
Part 1 | Part 2 What do we fear? At this La Trobe University event, four of the nation's leading thinkers on the subject to explore the...
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The Nation Reviewed
Comment: The Rise of the Greens
Robert Manne
It is not often recognised how well suited the Australian electoral system is for the emergence of significant ‘third force’ parties like...
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