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    Judith Brett | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 | Politics

    The big lesson of the past few months of financial crises is that government is the ultimate risk manager. When all else fails, be it the weather, our marriage, the banks or even our child-care provider, we turn to the state. Natural-disaster relief is a regular...

  • Panic & Censor
    David Marr | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 | Society & Culture

    I was putting on a bit of dog for the fresh envoy of a Great European Nation. This was deep in the Howard era, and we were drinking coffee in one of the sitting rooms the Sydney Morning Herald used to have for receiving notables. The new ambassador, a man of pugnacious...

  • The Ant & the Butterfly
    John van Tiggelen | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 | Environment
    One crisp spring evening, just on dark, an older man and a middle-aged woman met on a lonely bush track to inspect a patch of scrub by torchlight. They progressed purposefully, quietly and mostly on their knees. Their interest was restricted to a sparse area measuring about half...
  • Ally of the Dolls
    Alice Pung | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 | Society & Culture
    She was found beneath the floorboards of an old house in Geelong, and appeared to have been through a fire. Her body had disintegrated, but her head was still intact. She was from England, and probably came into existence sometime between 1908 and 1925 - though Barb, who...