September 2007
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September 2007
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September 2007
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September 2007
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September 2007
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September 2007
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Robert Manne
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The Nation Reviewed | September 2007 | Politics
A senior press-gallery journalist, one who frequently accompanies the prime minister on his foreign trips, once informed a gathering at which I was present that when John Howard visited Italy he declined an invitation to view the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He preferred to...
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Ashley Hay
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The Nation Reviewed | September 2007 | Environment
The unlikely combination of a small seaside village in Crete and an Adelaide-born Kylie Minogue look-alike would not have suggested, to the casual observer, news from the frontiers of science. But in the northern summer Dr Catherine Hill of Purdue University, Indiana,...
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Annabel McGilvray
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The Nation Reviewed | September 2007 | Society & Culture
Early one autumn morning this year a newborn baby was found outside Dandenong Hospital, in outer Melbourne. A month later and a state away, a Sydney pastor found a newborn on a church doorstep. In both cases the babies were hours old and suffering from hypothermia, shivering...
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Mungo MacCallum
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The Nation Reviewed | September 2007 | Politics
At the beginning of 1971 the Australian Labor Party found itself in the unusual position of having some spare money in the bank. A little over a year earlier Gough Whitlam had produced a massive swing to Labor, putting the party within easy striking distance of government the...
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Alice Pung
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The Nation Reviewed | September 2007 | Business
I take my sister up Melbourne's Collins Street, to show her the office where I work. It is at the end of the street where boutiques display shirts whose stripes meet perfectly at the seams, and where Burberry bags outnumber Big Issue vendors. Here, the women's...
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