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...
Politics
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Robert Manne
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The Nation Reviewed | Environment | Foreign Affairs | Politics
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Margaret Simons
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The Monthly Essays | Business | March 2010 | Politics
Davis mentions the book when I ask him why, at a time when the higher education sector is more stressed than ever before, he is trying to introduce radical change. “There are always arguments for doing nothing,” he says. True, higher education is badly underfunded by...
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Tim Soutphommasane
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Books | March 2010 | Politics
Malcolm Fraser tells a story about his time as army minister in the 1960s administering conscription during the Vietnam War. In a hotel bar in his electorate of Wannon, in Victoria's Western District, Fraser was confronted by a constituent whose son’s number had come up in...
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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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Louis Nowra
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The Monthly Essays | February 2010 | Politics
The two days I spent in emergency, I whiled away my time trying to block my ears to the cries of angry injured drunks and moaning victims, and listening to conversations from the other curtained-off beds. A nurse came in to tend to a fellow opposite my cubicle. A news item...
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John Birmingham
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The Monthly Essays | Dec 2009 - Jan 2010 | Politics
You cannot blame them, because Perry’s restaurant, located in a grand old insurance building, does soar. To stand in the entry foyer is to find yourself unable to resist craning your neck to gaze up into the vast high spaces, artfully lit by two illuminated working sculptures...
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Tony Roberts
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The Monthly Essays | November 2009 | Politics | Society & Culture
In 1881, a massive pastoral boom commenced in the top half of the Northern Territory, administered by the colonial government in Adelaide.1 Elsey Station on the Roper River – romanticised in Jeannie Gunn’s We of the...
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Tim Soutphommasane
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The Nation Reviewed | Foreign Affairs | November 2009 | Politics
Many Australians will remember Jason Yat-sen Li from the 1999 referendum campaign, when he was a twenty-something lawyer and a leading advocate for the ‘yes’ camp.
A Sydney-born Australian of Chinese heritage, the charismatic Li seemed to embody the cultural promise of...
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Geoffrey Robertson
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The Nation Reviewed | Foreign Affairs | November 2009 | Politics
The most remarkable feature of the National Human Rights Consultation Report, released last month, is its projection of the voices of ‘ordinary people’ (a condescending phrase used by lawyers to describe people who are not lawyers). These voices are alternatively laconic,...
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Robert Manne
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The Nation Reviewed | November 2009 | Politics
Paul Keating and John Howard were early players in what Australians have come to call the History Wars, whose main field of battle is the bitter and still unresolved cultural struggle over the nature of the Indigenous dispossession and the place it should assume in Australian...
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