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Apologetics and Hypocrisy: An Exchange on Australian anticommunism and the Indonesian massacre of 1965-6 between Gerard Henderson and Robert Manne
Robert Manne | Exchanges | Media | Online Only

As those who follow ideological politics in Australia are aware, it is one of Gerard Henderson's many unpleasant habits to engage his enemies in legalistic email exchanges, usually based on a petty grievance about something they have said or written about him, and then,...
Keith Windschuttle and Robert Edgerton: a comparison of texts
Robert Manne | June 2008 | Exchanges | Online Only

In November 2002 Keith Windschuttle published The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, volume one: Van Diemen's Land: 1803-1847. The publication was instantly greeted as a major cultural event almost entirely because of the accusation raised by Windschuttle that the...

Recently forwarded | The Monthly

Mission Drift

A Report From Afghanistan

Chris Masters

Infomation Idol

How Google is Making Us Stupid

Gideon Haigh

Margaret Court and Martina Navratilova

Shane Maloney

Faith in Politics

Kevin Rudd

The Whirling Dervish

Tony Abbott

Louis Nowra

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J.M. Coetzee on fundamentalism, curiosity and Patrick Allington's Figurehead

Black Inc.

Historical Encounters

Robyn Davidson & Bruce Chatwin

It was 1980 and Robyn Davidson was 30, unknown and working on the manuscript of her first book. London was cold and wet and a long way from her subject matter, but she'd found congenial digs in Doris Lessing's self-contained flat and exile companionship in two cockatiels she'd ransomed from a street market. The birds were flapping around the flat, pining for far horizons, when Bruce Chatwin knocked on the door.

The celebrated author of In Patagonia had heard about Davidson and her dromedary-propelled outback odyssey, and decided he should...

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'The Legacy' by Kirsten Tranter

'The Pregnant Widow' by Martin Amis

Liberal Fundamentalist

AC Grayling's 'Liberty in the Age of Terror'

The Sins of the Son

Vladimir Nabokov's 'The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments'

Easy Rider

Frederick Seidel's 'Ooga-Booga and Poems: 1959-2009'

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Obscured by Clouds

Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

Waleed Aly

Curtain Call

Joan Sutherland

Peter Conrad

Prepared

The ANAM Piano Festival

Anna Goldsworthy

Setting Herself Apart

Sarah Blasko's 'As Day Follows Night'

Robert Forster

The Pretendies

The art of the spoken interlude

Paul Kelly

Monthly film

Lost Boys

Jacques Audiard's 'A Prophet' and John Hillcoat's 'The Road'

In A Prophet, a dazzling new film about innocence and power from Jacques Audiard (director of The Beat My Heart Skipped, 2005), 19-year-old Malik (Tahar Rahim) is about to embark on a six-year prison sentence for assaulting a cop. Polite and deferential, Malik is hard to read at first. The little we glean about his life is framed in terms of negatives: he has no contacts, no relatives; he didn’t grow up with his parents, but in juvenile centres. If he’s experiencing fear as he enters the chaos of the prison at Brécourt, he doesn’t show it. He’...

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Repo Man

Craig Sherborne

June 2008

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