Over 200 years ago human beings began burning large quantities of the coal, oil and natural gas that had been buried under the Earth’s surface for hundreds of millions of years. This may eventually come to be seen as the most fatal misstep in the history of humankind. When...
The Nation Reviewed
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Robert Manne
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The Nation Reviewed | Environment | Foreign Affairs | Politics
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Arnold Zable
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The Nation Reviewed | Environment | March 2010 | Society & Culture
A year on from the Black Saturday fires, there’s a perverse beauty in the burnt forests, a striking interplay of black and green. The scorched eucalypts are fringed by halos of young leaves; epicormic growth, it is called – nature’s stopgap measure to revive stressed trees....
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Anna Funder
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The Nation Reviewed | March 2010 | Society & Culture
Not long ago I stood at the edge of my local pool in inner Sydney looking forward to getting a load off my feet – not that I had seen them for a while. I was in the last week of my third pregnancy, and my feet, along with quite a bit of the rest of me, had long since...
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Alan Saunders
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The Nation Reviewed | Television | March 2010
Eugene Kamenka, supervisor of my doctorate at ANU, expert on Marxian thought and a man who would never have thought his name would appear in an article about the twenty-fifth anniversary of Neighbours, once, in his youth, found himself giving a lecture (probably on...
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Gail Bell
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The Nation Reviewed | March 2010 | Society & Culture
This time last year, I roamed through the over-furnished rooms of Katherine Mansfield’s birthplace house in Tinakori Road, Te Puakitanga, Wellington. Whenever I enter into one of these strange transactions I wonder what is missing in me, or perhaps slightly askew, that I must...
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Kate Rossmanith
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The Nation Reviewed | Environment | March 2010 | Society & Culture
One morning in 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a merchant and amateur scientist in the Dutch city of Delft, set about the daily ritual of cleaning his teeth. Proud of his teeth, but perturbed by the solid white growth he could see between them, he scraped off some offending...
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Robert Manne
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The Nation Reviewed | February 2010 | Politics | Society & Culture
Windschuttle’s argument can be summarised like this. While there were many separations of Aboriginal children from their mothers, families and communities during the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the numbers have been wildly exaggerated by the “...
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Anna Goldsworthy
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The Nation Reviewed | February 2010 | Society & Culture
“Are you OK, dear?” the nurse asks. Whether I am OK is hardly the issue, when we are surrounded by people screaming. They are trapped in cages behind closed doors; the sounds they make are those of terror or mortal fear. And although they are very small people, perhaps a...
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Gay Bilson
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The Nation Reviewed | February 2010 | Society & Culture
At first glance, the 2010 Adelaide Festival program felt, well, small, in a sensible, tightly fused kind of way, with far fewer advertised events than the usual cascade of choices one expects from major-city festivals. It is possible of course that this is the result of a...
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Paul Kelly
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The Nation Reviewed | February 2010 | Society & Culture
In show business, you’re generally either the main act or the warm-up. Over 35 years, I’ve been both. A good show needs different and complementary parts. And someone always has to go on first.
Opening can be a sweet gig: your price is fixed, your set is short and you...
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