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The Australian Greens Party

Divided We Fall

By Sally Neighbour
*Nine days after the Christmas drinks in Canberra, a far more toxic atmosphere prevails as the NSW Greens assemble for their bi-monthly meeting of the State Delegates Council (SDC) at the Indigenous Yaama Dhiyaan centre in Darlington. It’s been a tortuous year for the party in New South Wales, with festering tensions brought to a head by an ugly bunfight over BDS, the ‘Boycott, Divestment
Noam Chomsky and the Sydney Peace Prize

Comment

By Nick Dyrenfurth
It was a sublime moment of coincidence. In the midst of reading The Finkler Question, English novelist Howard Jacobson’s comic meditation on contemporary Jewish identity, a message flashed across my phone’s screen: the darling of the radical Left, American Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky, had won the 2011 Sydney Peace Prize.  The eponymous academic philosopher cum media tart Sam Fin
The Greens and Fundamentalism

Comment

By Mark Aarons
Despite the new reality in the Senate, there are ominous signs for centre-left politics. The bitter invective recently directed at the Greens indicates Labor is rattled. Julia Gillard is desperate to shore up her flagging support among Labor’s traditional working– and lower middle–class base, and simultaneously win back left-wing voters who defected to the Greens because of Labor’s cowardice over climate change policy.More alarm

The Gaza Strips

By Christos Tsiolkas
I’m ageing; I’m becoming the old fart I never wished to be. I am succumbing to nostalgia and its lethal evil twin, bitterness. I listen to the radio – or, recently, more often a 30-second grab of a song on iTunes – and I think that popular music just can’t cut it anymore, that it all speaks in the same safe, sanitised, über-technocratic voice. Eve
David Grossman's 'To the End of the Land'

The Politics of Prose

By Inga Clendinnen
The Israeli novelist David Grossman leapt to international attention in the late ’80s with the release of his See Under: Love, translated into several European languages. Now comes To the End of the Land (Jonathan Cape, 592pp; $55.00). I used to think review

Tincture of Health

By Mandy Sayer
An emaciated man is begging for help on the back verandah of the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, an organisation lobbying for cannabis law reform. His breathing is shallow and he trembles slightly. For the past six years Mike has endured dialysis treatment for kidney dis
Gentlemen's Clubs

In Retreat

By Malcolm Knox
Invited to speak at The Australian Club in Sydney a couple of years ago, I felt reticent about telling, say, my wife where I was going. After all, being caught inside this type of gentlemen’s club may carry more shame than being spotted in the ones with poles and mirr
Ari Folman’s 'Waltz with Bashir'

The Remembering

By Luke Davies
The Israeli director Ari Folman's audacious Waltz with Bashir is called an animated documentary feature by its producers. It is much more than that - or at least, that is only one convenient way to describe it. The film moves towards a real mystery - a hole in

John Pilger & Martha Gellhorn

By Shane Maloney
Martha Gellhorn wrote many things during her remarkable 60-year career. Reports on living conditions in the mine and mill towns of Depression-era America. Newspaper despatches from battlefronts as far-flung as Spain, Finland, Java and El Salvador. Trenchant and propheti