CULTURE: Authors
POLITICS
Australia: The Official History
John Hirst
Howard adopted narrative history as part of his political program in a speech on Australia Day 2006, when he attacked the current practice...
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Patrick White: The final chapter
David Marr
We climbed down and after some hesitation found a spot where waves were washing through a rock pool. A couple of fishermen had lines in the...
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CULTURE
'The Hanging Garden' by Patrick White
Michelle de Kretser
The publication of an unfinished draft is the writer’s version of that nightmare in which you find yourself naked in the street. Writers...
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SOCIETY
High Priest: David Walsh and Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art
Amanda Lohrey
The Moorilla estate is set on a peninsula of sandstone cliffs that juts out into the Derwent estuary on Hobart’s northern fringe. Framed to...
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MEDIA
As Robert Was Saying: In conversation with Robert Dessaix
Gail Bell
Robert Dessaix refers to the heart attack that almost ended his life in July 2011 as “the emergency”. “I’m not interested in the physical...
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CULTURE
Sydney Gets a Laneway: The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Drusilla Modjeska
Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Circular Quay West re-opened on 29 March with a new wing, as the Museum of Contemporary Art...
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CULTURE
Age of Innocence: Frank Moorhouse’s 'Cold Light'
David Marr
Edith Campbell Berry has crashed to earth in Canberra circa 1950. She is no longer wanted abroad. All her years at the League of Nations...
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SOCIETY
The Next Chapter
Malcolm Knox
The scene is being played out across Australia, parents unable to get access to their new iPads, Kindles or Kobos because the digital...
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CULTURE
Richard Flanagan: Closing address, Sydney Writers' Festival
Richard Flanagan
Part 1 | Part 2 In his Closing Address to the Sydney Writers' Festival, Richard Flanagan mounts an impassioned and stinging attack on...
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Dead Disturbing. A bloodthirsty tale that plays with the fire of anti-semitism: 'Dead Europe' by Christos Tsiolkas
Robert Manne
When George Orwell was in Burma he asked a young boy he met his nationality. “I am a Joo, sir!” He was no more self-conscious than if he...
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CULTURE
No One Comes To See Me Now: Manoly Lascaris and Patrick White’s ghost
Debra Adelaide
Three days a week, in the winter of 1993, I would drive the children to day care and continue to 20 Martin Road, Centennial Park. The house...
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CULTURE
At the Condamine Crossroads Motel
Janette Turner ...
Meg parks right between the goal posts of the Welcome to Condamine sign. Small print below Condamine, white against green, announces:...
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Linda Jaivin
There’s something inescapably romantic about the idea of the Cross, that dirty half mile of Darlinghurst Road plus the suburbs of Potts...
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CULTURE
Helen Garner in conversation with Jennifer Byrne
Helen Garner
Part 1 | Part 2 In conversation with Jennifer Byrne at the Wheeler Centre, author Helen Garner speaks with great insight and honesty about...
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POLITICS
Comment: Keith Windschuttle
Robert Manne
Windschuttle’s argument can be summarised like this. While there were many separations of Aboriginal children from their mothers, families...
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SOCIETY
Patrick White & Sidney Nolan
Patrick White detested Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A mangrove swamp on a road leading from nowhere to nowhere, he called it. The insects were...
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CULTURE
Us and Them. Anna Krien on the Importance of Animals
Anna Krien
For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of...
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CULTURE
The Kid Grows Up: Meeting Alex Dimitriades
Peter Robb
Nearing 40, a man’s body begins to die. The body knows this. So does the mind, though it can take a long time before the mind knows what it...
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CULTURE
Peter Singer in conversation with Louise Adler: The life you can save
Peter Singer
World-renowned ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer discusses his new book with Louise Adler. In The Life You Can Save, Singer argues that...
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Keith Windschuttle and Robert Edgerton: a comparison of texts
Robert Manne
In November 2002 Keith Windschuttle published The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, volume one: Van Diemen's Land: 1803-1847. The...
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