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  • Editor's Note
    Sally Warhaft | The Nation Reviewed | June 2007 | Media
    ‘Is that the truth, or is your News Limited?'

    Last month, while this magazine celebrated its second birthday, Australia's pre-eminent media group, Fairfax, spiked a story profiling Wendi Deng Murdoch that one of its editors had commissioned. We don't yet know all...

  • Comment: Consuming the Planet
    Clive Hamilton | The Nation Reviewed | June 2007 | Politics

    Australians go into the federal election affluent and, on the surface, satisfied. Signs of prosperity are everywhere. Yet in a culture now defined by the idea of lifestyle, aspirations continue to rise ahead of incomes. A number of interest-rate rises and warnings (admittedly...

  • Waterfront Blues
    John Button | The Nation Reviewed | June 2007 | Business
    In the classic film On the Waterfront, set in New York, the embittered young watersider Terry Malloy (played by a youthful Marlon Brando) asks an apparently meddlesome priest, "What's your racket?" "I don't have a racket," is the reply...
  • Crocodile Fears
    Kate Rossmanith | The Nation Reviewed | June 2007 | Environment
    In March last year, days before Cyclone Larry tore through Far North Queensland levelling towns and banana crops, a Port Douglas man found a 2.5-metre saltwater crocodile in his garage. It took six rangers from the wildlife park to rope the disoriented animal and return it to...
  • Stars in Their Eyes
    Mungo MacCallum | The Nation Reviewed | June 2007 | Politics
    Imagine that you are a member of the Labor Party living in the regional New South Wales electorate of McMahon. The seat is held by the National Party, but the long-standing member is retiring this year, and that, combined with demographic changes, has made the seat distinctly...
  • War of Words: The future of journalism as a public trust
    Eric Beecher | The Monthly Essays | June 2007 | Business
    "I don't want Rupert Murdoch to decide what belongs in the Wall Street Journal news pages. The essence of a great newspaper is independence, even from its proprietors and shareholders, and Murdoch, in the final analysis, hasn't come down on that side."...
  • Wendi Deng Murdoch
    Eric Ellis | The Monthly Essays | June 2007 | Business | Media
    Deng Wen Ge - she changed her name to Wendi in her mid-teens - was born in Shandong around the time that her future husband was buying London's News of the World. One of three children, she grew up in neighbouring Xuzhou as a Subei ren - a vernacular term for...
  • Shute the Messenger: How the end of the world came to Melbourne
    Gideon Haigh | The Monthly Essays | June 2007 | Media | Society & Culture
    Early on 22 July 1957, a false alarm of nuclear attack sounded in Schenectady, New York. Only one man, reported Harper's, roused and evacuated his family. Everyone else, including civil-defence officials, emulated the mayor, who "rolled over and went back to...