Politicians: Arthur Calwell
POLITICS
Le Parti, C'est Moi: Liberal Leaders Since Menzies
Mungo MacCallum
The reasons for this preoccupation with control go back to the circumstances of the party's creation. It was, of course, the invention...
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POLITICS
Arthur Calwell & Peter Kocan
In the lead-up to a federal election, the Labor Opposition leader is shot at point-blank range as he leaves a rowdy public meeting. The...
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Political Courage: Some Australian examples
John Hirst
My Australian collection begins early, at Sydney Cove in 1789, the second year of the convict settlement. The nature of this anomalous...
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Malcolm Knox
‘The Library of Babel', a 1941 story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, is often read as a prefigurement of the internet. Every...
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Mungo MacCallum
King over all the children of prideIs the Press - the Press - the Press!Rudyard KiplingMark Latham's latest work, A Conga Line of Suckholes...
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Mungo MacCallum
fac-tion n.1. A form of literature or film-making that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses real people or events...
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Malcolm Knox
My dear Callum and Lilian,You entered our hearts identically, 15 months apart, as affirmative lines on a pregnancy test in your Uncle David...
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Clive James
There is a tone of voice you can hear in the way a sentence is balanced, even if you are not equipped to understand its content. “What the...
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