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  • Comment: Turnbull's Challenge
    Robert Manne | The Nation Reviewed | August 2009 | Politics

    Already it is becoming clear that his attempt has failed. A decade ago, when John Howard led the Coalition and Pauline Hanson fascinated the country, the ideological balance of the electorate tilted very clearly to the Right. Since 2007, however, opinion polls have...

  • Comment: Racism, Australian-Style
    Waleed Aly | The Nation Reviewed | August 2009 | Politics

    For all Kevin Rudd’s fantasies of international leadership, Australia rarely impinges on the consciousness of the wider world. We are neither sufficiently powerful nor sufficiently strife-torn to command global attention. Our prime minister can slip in and out of a foreign...

  • The MCG and the Mango Tree
    Tanveer Ahmed | The Nation Reviewed | August 2009 | Society & Culture

    I first met Zakir in my mother’s native village in Bangladesh, where he’d come to meet my family after hearing we lived in Australia. He wore a blue Yankees cap over his curly hair and carried a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses. I’d just finished high school and was...

  • Beat Up
    Kate Holden | The Nation Reviewed | August 2009 | Society & Culture

    In a lilac-painted acupuncture studio on a chic inner-urban shopping strip, a bunch of white folks are banging the crap out of some leather. There is an almighty clamour in a very small, shadowy room; sparkly earrings jiggle, hands slap away. Welcome to the ‘new yoga’ –...