Politicians: Morris Iemma
POLITICS
A Matter of Faith: Kristina Keneally
Jana Wendt
The office of the premier in the state of despair is occupied by Kristina Kerscher Keneally of Ohio. More improbable than the fact that an...
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New Labor Dreaming: Troy Bramston’s 'Looking for the Light on the Hill'
Maxine McKew
Coming from New South Wales, a state that has made an artform of decapitating leaders, Bramston doesn’t always follow the logic of his own...
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Comment: NSW Labor
Mark Aarons
Since December, the Keneally government’s political ineptitude has been underscored by its incompetent handling of the unpopular...
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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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Unsettled: David Marr’s ‘The Henson Case’
Sebastian Smee
David Marr's book on the Bill Henson controversy (Text Publishing, 149pp; $24.95) begins with a reasonable man reasonably wondering if...
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Beattie’s Babylon
John Birmingham
Just up from the corner of Vulture and Boundary streets, where the short commercial strip of indie cafés and bars gives way to a remnant...
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Some Velvet Mourning
Bridget Griffen...
Plenty of the latter, but little of the former sentiment has been expressed, publicly at least, in the weeks following Kerry Packer’s death...
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