SOCIETY: Health
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,...
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Margaret Simons
Pluck an episode from the midstream of human life and it can be hard to glean meaning. Sometimes there is just senselessness and mess. If...
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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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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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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Natasha Mitchell: You are not your brain scan!
Natasha Mitchell
The study of the brain has attracted extraordinary public interest in recent years, partly driven by major scientific breakthroughs in...
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Liquid Handcuffs: The Methadone Program at 40
Gail Bell
Two old hands who dose at the pharmacy where I work (a couple, Danny and Carla) have been using since they were 18. They are in their...
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SOCIETY
Known Unknowns: Influenza
Malcolm Knox
Although it is an everyday virus, there is something about influenza that inspires awe. This microscopic hard-shelled parcel of genetic...
More ...The Lady Killers: Women in the Military
Anne Summers
A few years later, that soldier asked the other three officers who had assisted her maiden fast-rope that day to be bridesmaids at her...
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Writing from the Grave: Eugene O’Neill’s 'Long Day’s Journey into Night'
Peter Conrad
Eugene O’Neill thought of his Long Day’s Journey into Night as a posthumous work. Completing it in 1941, he decided that it should only be...
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Alice Pung
Mr Abe Lourie is 81, and tells me that he is in perfect health. Every morning he walks up two flights of stairs to open his store. The lift...
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SOCIETY
Only Itself to Blame: The Church of Scientology
Malcolm Knox
The Surry Hills premises were Spartan and recently opened. Scientology’s central Sydney church, in Castlereagh St, is closed for the...
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