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  • Comment: Carbon Omissions
    Tim Flannery | May 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Environment

     

    Over the past four years, there has been immeasurable progress on climate change - in public awareness, in media interest and in the political response to the problem. In early 2005, one of us was completing The Weather Makers; the other was working at...

  • Incentivising
    Gideon Haigh | May 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Business

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    An age-old conjugation of democracy runs something like this: I am guided by the will of the people; you are a slave of public opinion; he is a crude and craven populist. It was on show in March, during the crazy few weeks that began with the hounding of...

  • School Days
    Alice Pung | May 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Society & Culture

    ‘Ladies' is such a salacious word when slurred by young men, but when enunciated by a carefully coiffured middle-aged lady to a mass of Year 10 girls it is a severe admonition not to move. I wondered how long it would take to set the limbs of adolescent restlessness.

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  • C90
    Paul Kelly | May 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Music | Society & Culture

    In my last year of high school the two coolest records were Hot Rats, by Frank Zappa, and Gasoline Alley, by Rod Stewart. (Yes, there once was a time when Rod Stewart was underground.) I wasn't in the hipster gang, but I knew what they listened to. I managed...

  • The Rudd Essay & the Global Financial Crisis: Introduction
    Robert Manne | May 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Business | Politics

    The forum begins with Eric Hobsbawm, the author of the magisterial quartet The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and The Age of Extremes. Hobsbawm, a former communist and lifelong member of the Left, is not...