ECONOMICS
WORLD
Comment: Address to the US President: Draft for a Prime Minister’s Address on the Occasion of Another Visit from the President of the United States
Don Watson
Mr President, Thank you for making room in your busy schedule to see me while you are in Darwin. In the short time I have at your disposal...
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Julia Baird
The Family Table Restaurant is a small, dingy diner in Atlantic, Iowa, the state known as the Hawkeye State, that claims to be the corn...
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POLITICS
Prime Minister, Interrupted: Why One Year After the Election Voters Still Don’t Know Who Gillard Is
Annabel Crabb
In return for this triennial exertion, Australian voters implicitly demand a few standards. We don’t have the American horror of big...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Looks Department: The Rise of Cosmetic Medicine
Tanveer Ahmed
Dr Joseph Ajaka came to the world of cosmetic medicine in 2006 after the messy rupture of his training to become an anaesthetist. After...
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SOCIETY
Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning
Peter Hartcher
It was Carnegie, son of the arch-establishment businessman Sir Rod Carnegie, who emerged as the media star of the Gillard government’s tax...
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POLITICS
All About Cory: Cory Bernardi, Conservative Warrior
Sally Neighbour
“When you first come into this place, all the walls are blank, and after the first bonhomie’s done and people say hello, you’re left alone...
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POLITICS
The Hollowmen
Mark Aarons
Almost a quarter of a century separates the coup against Hawke from that of ‘Richo’s’ successor, NSW Right faction leader Mark Arbib. But...
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POLITICS
Window Dressing: The Mirage of Political Reform
Lindsay Tanner
Such sentiments are understandable but misguided. The rules that govern how our political system works matter, but the development of...
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Club Rules: The Phoney War on Bikie Gangs
Adam Shand
The strength of that commitment will soon be tested. The South Australian premier, Mike Rann, has just enacted what he calls the toughest...
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POLITICS
The Whirling Dervish: Tony Abbott
Louis Nowra
The two days I spent in emergency, I whiled away my time trying to block my ears to the cries of angry injured drunks and moaning victims,...
More ...Cruising: Life and death on the high seas
Malcolm Knox
The group's dynamic is manifest in the photo. All but two are smiling. Five have criminal charges or convictions. Dragan Losic, slot...
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POLITICS
No Exit: The ALP
Mark Latham
The lingering mood in the federal Labor caucus must be one of puzzlement. In terms of political brevity, direct comparisons with the Rudd...
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POLITICS
The Global Financial Crisis
Kevin Rudd
There is a sense that we are now living through just such a time: barely a decade into the new millennium, barely 20 years since the end of...
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Fear & Loathing at the ABC
Margaret Simons
The working day is infused with the irony of the clever, their undercutting humour, and the slight sense of disappointment that always...
More ...The Book of Paul: Lessons in Leadership and Paul Keating
George Megalogenis
Comparisons between leaders can be unfair to the incumbent because the one with the job has yet to receive the clemency of political...
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A Sort of Homecoming. Familiar strands in an unfamiliar land: 'The Grave at Thu Le' by Catherine Cole
Drusilla Modjeska
Considering the significance of Vietnam in Australia’s post-colonial sense of itself, it is curious that it hasn’t made its way to...
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POLITICS
Comment: Palin Politics and the Tea Party
Don Watson
The fact of the automobile for instance; and Big Oil, which fuelled it; and the strip malls, which made the car indispensable to commerce,...
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ECONOMICS
Crises of Faith: The Future of Fairfax
Margaret Simons
Perhaps the worst journalists are believers too – so convinced about the importance of their mission, their own special place as...
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ENVIRONMENT
What We Learned in Copenhagen
Andrew Charlton
At 10.45 p.m. my phone rang. “The Danes are switching to the back-up plan,” a voice said. “Room 20. 11.30 tonight.” I pulled on my suit...
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MEDIA
Rising Son: James Murdoch
Malcolm Knox
The Absence of TrustMurdoch’s choice of speech title was a simple pun. The object of his attack was to be the BBC Trust, the governing body...
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23 February 2012
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