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  • The Indian Ocean Solution: Christmas Island [preview]
    David Marr | The Monthly Essays | Politics | September 2009

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  • Credit Check
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  • Be Prepared
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  • Fragile Heart
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  • Wrong Son
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  • Comment: Rudd and the Murdoch Press
    Mungo MacCallum | The Nation Reviewed | Business | Politics | September 2009

    Political leaders find it particularly irksome. It was painful enough to be called into the media mogul’s Sydney headquarters, worse still to be invited to his rural estate – ‘Cavan’, near Canberra – to don gumboots and compliment him on his livestock. But to be summoned...

  • Harvest
    Gay Bilson | The Nation Reviewed | September 2009 | Society & Culture

    The South Australian autumn had been wet, and in the early morning the soggy earth steamed, especially under the pines in the Adelaide hills. These are perfect conditions for mushrooms. They have had a bumper season, which is to say it has been a bumper season for foragers...

  • Sleepers, Awake
    Benjamin Law | The Nation Reviewed | September 2009 | Society & Culture

    Twenty years ago, just past midnight, the American tank ship Exxon Valdez was slicing through cold black water, cutting a course through the Gulf of Alaska. Anyone who was an adult in the ’80s knows what happened next: a misjudged turn, a grounding on the reef and...