MEDIA
POLITICS
Lord Monckton and the Future of Australian Media
In July 2011, one of the most extreme climate change denialists, Lord Monckton, accepted an invitation to take a trip to Australia – a...
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MEDIA
Big data: What's Happening To Information About You?
Every digital transaction and communication leaves digital traces and results in enormous collections of data about what we do and who we...
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Don Watson
The best measure of the boon these phones have been is to recall the woe of life before them. Just 15 years ago on trams and trains people...
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WORLD
The Politics of News: David McKnight’s 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Power'
David Marr
Australian journalists have a sad history of going off to Washington to be ruined. They leave home the hope of the side but after a visit...
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POLITICS
Comment: Political Leadership in Australia
Don Watson
As the bosses’ grip grows tighter, the membership declines and branches fold. Recently, the stalwart Senator John Faulkner used the word ‘...
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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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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Stars My Destination
Luke Davies
Yet viewed on even larger scales, the sense of our tenure here can become positively claustrophobic. There’s really nowhere to go when you...
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CULTURE
David Marr on The Henson Case
David Marr
Journalist and writer David Marr speaks passionately and intelligently about the recent sagas involving photographer Bill Henson, which are...
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Lies that Tell the Truth: The paradox of art and creative writing
Simon Leys
This essay was originally an address to the annual conference of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where its title, at the request of...
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Hidden Treasure: Forty-three Years at the ABC
Chris Masters
Despite that dismal episode, I still see the ABC as a national treasure. It can be snobbishly self-important and oafishly bureaucratic....
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SOCIETY
The Better Self?: Germaine Greer and 'The Female Eunuch'
Louis Nowra
It’s 40 years since Greer published her first book, The Female Eunuch, and became famous. I first read the book when it came out in...
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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...
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MEDIA
Too Much Information: Andrew Charlton on Lindsay Tanner’s 'Sideshow'
Andrew Charlton
Recently I had dinner with a group of friends including a well-known political journalist. When I told him I was working my way through the...
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WORLD
The Fox News Show: Rupert Murdoch’s Populist Creations
Guy Rundle
It was the usual Palin performance – the sentences tripping over each other, somewhere between natural leader and cheerleader. It’s the...
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SOCIETY
Nowhere Near Hollywood: Australian Film
Louis Nowra
I set out to watch most of the Australian films released this year because I wanted to grasp the condition of our industry. On a practical...
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CULTURE
Comment: ABC’s The Book Show and Ramona Koval
Don Watson
Still, it might be apt enough for the ABC. What nobler ambitions does the national broadcaster have than uniting Australians in their...
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SOCIETY
Divine Intervention: John Waters
Peter Conrad
Australia’s girdling oceans used to serve as a prophylactic, our defence against the infectious depravity of the northern hemisphere. The...
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New Teeth for Aunty: Reinvigorating the National Broadcaster
Robert Manne
This outline of my daily routine should at least make one thing clear: the ABC plays a very important part in my life. As it does for very...
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CULTURE
Divine Comedy: The Personae of Barry Humphries
Peter Conrad
In 1987 on her British talk show, Dame Edna Everage abruptly asked Sir John Mills when he intended to retire – a tactless query, expressed...
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23 February 2012
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