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A Ferry into the Past: The Story of Billy Blue
Cassandra Pybus
When I was 17 my friend Chloe lived in Lavender Bay, just down the road from the Old Commodore Hotel. I lived nearby in Kirribilli,...
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MEDIA
Payback: The Bullying Tactics of the Murdoch Press
The Australian is not a subtle newspaper. But it certainly has a genius for timing. Within hours of the publication of the Finkelstein...
More ...The Politics of News: David McKnight’s 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Power'
David Marr
Australian journalists have a sad history of going off to Washington to be ruined. They leave home the hope of the side but after a visit...
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MEDIA
Out of Control: More Bad News
Before my Quarterly Essay on the Australian was published there was some discussion about what it should be called. Before “Bad News” my...
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MEDIA
Robert Manne Responds to 'Paul Kelly' and The Australian
Following the Australian newspaper's lengthy response to his Quarterly Essay (Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation...
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Deconstructing Paul Kelly
Update: Since writing this, Paul Kelly has pulled out of the debate at the Wheeler Centre. The event is still going ahead.*...
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MEDIA
Power Without Responsibility: The Australian – Manne & Beecher
Renowned essayist and public intellectual Robert Manne discusses his new Quarterly Essay 43 on the Australian newspaper...
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Left, Right, Left
Why have I decided to begin a blog? In part I relish the opportunity to write more freely and with greater immediacy than is possible with...
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MEDIA
Bad News: Robert Manne on Murdoch's Australian
Robert Manne
This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of...
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MEDIA
The United States of Chris Mitchell: The Power of Rupert Murdoch and the Australian’s Editor-in-Chief
Sally Neighbour
Talk to any journalist, commentator, politician or public figure in Australia, and it seems they all have a view of Chris Mitchell...
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
Adam Bandt on the rise of the Greens
Adam Bandt
In the week of his parliamentary debut, Greens member for Melbourne Adam Bandt gives an exclusive, extended interview to SlowTV on the rise...
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ECONOMICS
The great financial panic. Paul Keating and David Wessel (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 The past 18 months has seen almost unprecedented turmoil in the world’s financial markets. Even now, market jitters...
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ECONOMICS
The great financial panic. Paul Keating and David Wessel
Paul Keating
Part 1 | Part 2The past 18 months has seen almost unprecedented turmoil in the world’s financial markets. Even now, market jitters continue...
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WORLD
China: Perverse rising superpower. Rowan Callick
Rowan Callick
Part 1 | Part 2Westerners have presumed that China's rise will take a familiar trajectory incorporating first economic, then political...
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WORLD
China: Perverse rising superpower. Rowan Callick (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Westerners have presumed that China's rise will take a familiar trajectory incorporating first economic, then political...
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