October 2009

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  • Hugh White | The Nation Reviewed | Foreign Affairs | October 2009 | Politics

    Few of us are pacifists, so most of us accept that these strategic decisions must sometimes be made. But, in Australia, we have not faced them for a long time. Not since Vietnam have Australian leaders, and Australian voters, had to take responsibility for deliberately...

  • Elliot Perlman | The Nation Reviewed | Business | October 2009 | Politics

    Dear Prime Minister,

    In the February Monthly you wrote that “the great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years has failed … and the free-market fundamentalism it has produced, has been revealed as little more than personal greed dressed up as an economic...

  • Leigh Sales | The Nation Reviewed | October 2009 | Politics | Society & Culture

    Nicola has the sunken face of a long-term junkie. She looks about 50 but is probably much younger. She is painfully skinny in tight jeans and her shoulder blades poke through her white cardigan. She wears thongs even though it’s winter.

    Nicola has just taken the stand...

  • Alan Saunders | The Nation Reviewed | October 2009 | Society & Culture

    “My idea of heaven is sitting in my garden with the sun on my back, a cup of tea and someone I love,” says a woman at the back of the room. It’s a philosophical claim that, like so many, invites more questions than it resolves. Is she saying that heaven is simply a blissful...