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    Mark McKenna | The Nation Reviewed | March 2008 | Politics
    An Australian republic can only be argued for convincingly at the level of feeling - on what we feel towards the place and for one another ... a true republic ... is founded not on the loyalty of its citizens to their head of state, but on their loyalty to one another: on...
  • The Other Teresa Brennan
    Amanda Lohrey | The Nation Reviewed | March 2008 | Society & Culture

    On 8 January 2006, in the Sydney suburb of Mosman, a silver Lexus belonging to the retired Federal Court judge and Living National Treasure Marcus Einfeld was clocked above the speed limit. Einfeld, facing a fine of $77, denied that he was in the car at the time, claiming he...

  • Free House
    Craig Sherborne | The Nation Reviewed | March 2008 | Business

    Humans love getting something for nothing. Failing that, next to nothing. Picking up a $1-million inner-city Melbourne house for a $15,000 outlay, for instance. No, not by gambling, not in some casino's high-stakes spin-the-wheel game. There's a loophole in the law...

  • Opportunity
    Alice Pung | The Nation Reviewed | March 2008 | Society & Culture

    There is a severed bear's head in the hall, and it has been there for more than a week. Its red tongue pokes out from its mouth, which is caught in a bewildered beam. The bear's body lies elsewhere, in another room. It does not smell, although foamy polyester threads...

  • Sorry Business: The Road to the Apology
    Robert Manne | The Monthly Essays | March 2008 | Politics | Society & Culture

    Two pieces of evidence I stumbled upon shortly after reading the report had a particularly powerful effect on me. One was a passage from Margaret Tucker's autobiography, If Everyone Cared. As I know now but did not yet understand, Margaret Tucker had been one of the...

  • Packed It In: The Demise of The Bulletin
    Gideon Haigh | The Monthly Essays | March 2008 | Business | Media

    On the morning the Bulletin finally closed, Thursday, 24 January 2008, editor-in-chief John Lehmann went for a haircut. There were bound to be television cameras; he might as well look his best. Lehmann was right. The news crews duly came, but they camped out the front...