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  • Comment: The Economic Myths of Peter Costello
    Andrew Charlton | The Nation Reviewed | October 2007 | Business | Politics

    On 23 September 2004, three days before the launch of his re-election campaign, John Howard visited the marginal seat of Deakin in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He wandered up and down a busy shopping strip, chatting to residents and looking as casual as a...

  • Written in the Body
    Ashley Hay | The Nation Reviewed | October 2007 | Society & Culture

    On a table of its own, in the pulmonary section of the Museum of Human Disease at the University of New South Wales, sits a solid-looking object, jet black but glistening as if it's been sprinkled with some crushed jewel, some metallic powder. It's an elliptical shape...

  • The Flatbed Scanner of Democracy
    Charles Firth | The Nation Reviewed | October 2007 | Business | Politics

    It is vitally important to the health of Australian democracy and the economy that everyone buys a flatbed scanner.

    A few weeks ago I was standing in front of my mirror, practising my smug-yet-sombre look, when I was informed of a rumour that John Howard was ten minutes...

  • Caveat Emptor
    Alice Pung | The Nation Reviewed | October 2007 | Business | Society & Culture

    There are two important things your Chinese parents will teach you in life. First, don't owe any debts; and secondly, own your own property. Unlike their other attempts at edification, these two lessons are non-gender-specific. A year or so after you have started full-...

  • Backing the Truck Up
    Gideon Haigh | The Nation Reviewed | October 2007 | Business

    Australians go to the polls this month in elections with a huge bearing on their future prosperity, in which they will not only return every candidate by an overwhelming majority but consent to the massive pay rises these people have demanded - pay rises, indeed, that they...

  • Le Parti, C'est Moi: Liberal Leaders Since Menzies
    Mungo MacCallum | The Monthly Essays | October 2007 | Politics

    The reasons for this preoccupation with control go back to the circumstances of the party's creation. It was, of course, the invention of Robert Gordon Menzies, who made it clear from the start that it was to be his party and nobody else's; he knew from bitter...

  • The Collector: Karel Kupka in north Australia
    Nicolas Rothwell | The Monthly Essays | October 2007 | Foreign Affairs | Society & Culture

    This arrival, which would have life-changing consequences for Kupka, and open a new chapter in Western appreciation of Aboriginal cultures, had been long dreamed of and long planned. Kupka, by then, had already lived in self-imposed exile from his own country for more than a...