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    Robert Manne | The Nation Reviewed | November 2006
    Last month, the federal parliament passed the most important media laws in 20 years. The laws allow newspaper owners to move into free-to-air television; they allow television owners to purchase a newspaper chain. Before their passage, controversy arose over trivial or second-...
  • Walk the Line
    Mungo MacCallum | The Nation Reviewed | November 2006

    King over all the children of pride
    Is the Press - the Press - the Press!

    Rudyard Kipling

    Mark Latham's latest work, A Conga Line of Suckholes, takes its tasteful title from one of the author's own more memorable epithets....

  • Park Life
    Sarah Kanowski | The Nation Reviewed | November 2006
    "You're handsome! You're beautiful!" he calls out as he walks the dogs. "Jesus loves you!" was the preferred greeting for a week or two, but it's the good looks of his fellow citizens that's his favoured theme. The dog-walker dresses in a blue...
  • For the Record
    Malcolm Knox | The Nation Reviewed | November 2006
    ‘The Library of Babel', a 1941 story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, is often read as a prefigurement of the internet. Every book in the library has 410 pages, made up of the letters of the standard alphabet. The catch is that these letters are arranged in every...
  • Who Let the Dogs Out?: Palm Island after the inquest into an death in custody
    Chloe Hooper | The Monthly Essays | November 2006

    On the morning of 19 November 2004, Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, Palm Island's rangy 33-year-old officer in charge, had arrested Cameron Doomadgee (known sometimes as Mulrunji), 36, for committing a public nuisance. Doomadgee was drunk - "happy drunk", community members said...

  • British Rules: Why we're still more English than American
    Gideon Haigh | The Monthly Essays | November 2006
    It was a big story for a while, although it was more an unexpectedly extreme version of an acknowledged phenomenon than something unprecedented. Great teams visit Australia full of glorious personalities to play compelling cricket, but nothing sells like a tour by our oldest...
  • Time’s Arrow: An interview with Robert Hughes
    Peter Craven | The Monthly Essays | November 2006
    Hughes had become the art critic of Time magazine in 1970, and you could read those page-long pieces - which as severe a judge as Gerald Murnane once described as being written in flawless prose - 30 or so times a year. There were also, over the decades, those TV surveys...
  • Howard’s Brutopia: The battle of ideas in Australian politics
    Kevin Rudd | The Monthly Essays | Politics | November 2006
    Yet the culture war is essentially a cover for the real battle of ideas in Australian politics today: the battle between free-market fundamentalism and the social-democratic belief that individual reward can be balanced with social responsibility. Howard's culture war is in...