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    Robert Manne | The Nation Reviewed | May 2008 | Politics

    When my university offered to nominate me to attend the 2020 Summit, I accepted at once. Given that I had recently edited a book of ideas for a better Australia, it seemed churlish not to agree. But there was more to it than that. For the past decade the Right has sought to...

  • Razor-Gang Blues
    Gideon Haigh | The Nation Reviewed | May 2008 | Media

    They think well of Kevin Rudd at the National Library of Australia. For all his posturing as Mr History, John Howard only visited the library once - and then to launch the government's online-porn filter while the children of staffers gambolled for the cameras. Rudd has...

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    Toni Jordan | The Nation Reviewed | May 2008 | Society & Culture

    By the time the Sunday service is half over, the traffic is just a murmur. During the week you can't hear yourself think at this end of Melbourne's Latrobe Street, much less pray: outside are four lanes of vehicles, two tram lines and a parking garage next door. But on...

  • Organic Matter
    Robyn Davidson | The Nation Reviewed | May 2008 | Society & Culture

    One of the great things about getting older is that all the anxieties you once had about death and decline (and some of us have had them daily since we first grasped the fact of mortality) are anxieties no longer. You are liberated from them because they have become real....

  • Lies, Damned Lies
    Charles Firth | The Nation Reviewed | May 2008 | Society & Culture

    My mum has been lying to me. It's either her or Telstra, and I always take Telstra at its word, so it must be Mum.

    This month marks the first anniversary of Justice Peter Gray's ruling that Optus offers better value than Telstra. Telstra had tried to stop Optus...

  • Obama!: What he must do to win
    Noel Pearson | The Monthly Essays | May 2008 | Politics

    According to Steele, white guilt became a potent force in American culture and politics because, following the civil-rights victories of the '60s, whites were forced to confront their long association with racism. White America suffered a crisis of moral authority because...

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    Craig Sherborne | The Monthly Essays | May 2008 | Politics

    If you think Australia and New Zealand are peas in a pod, you are mistaken.

    In social justice, New Zealand has, for most of its modern history, been advancing the lantern into the future's blank mist, where Australia has been hesitant to venture. In indigenous land...