Gough Whitlam at 95 Years
Comment
By Lindsay Tanner
Many books have been written about the political drama of the Whitlam years, particularly the government’s ultimate dismissal by Governor-General Sir John Kerr on 11 November 1975. Yet the actual content of the government’s initiatives also warrants serious analysis. There has been a great deal of subsequent commentary about specific issues, but few serious studies of the government itsel
Liu Xiaobo
A Nobel Affair
By Linda Jaivin
When I last checked, over 1 million readers had viewed this cryptic message. Among the more than 25,000 comments, the multiple effusions (“Love you!”) and myriad confusions (“Huh?”), was one that quoted from the first volume of Marx and Engels’ Collected Works: The government only listens to its own voice, and it knows it is only listening to its own voice, but it tricks itself