POLITICS: Politicians
ECONOMICS
What Gina Wants: Gina Rinehart’s quest for respect and gratitude
Nick Bryant
Lang Hancock thought journalists were either “socialists” or “communists”. Gina, too, is deeply scornful of the press. Very few reporters...
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POLITICS
One Morning with Malcolm: Turnbull Speaks on Life in Politics
Robert Manne
Paul Keating was the prime minister deemed most responsible by Liberals for imposing the yoke of political correctness on the shoulders of...
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POLITICS
The Long Goodbye: Explaining Gillard’s Collapse
Almost every political observer recognises that unless something altogether unexpected happens, by late 2013 Australia will have an Abbott...
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POLITICS
Once Were Warriors: Forgotten People, Elites and Class Warfare
Nick Dyrenfurth
On 18 January 1886, a remarkable letter to the editor appeared in the pages of the conservative Argus newspaper as a bitter wharfies’...
More ...Comment: Attack of the Clones
Don Watson
People who watched the first series of Yes Minister might remember a fringe character called Frank Weisel, a young man of little apparent...
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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,...
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POLITICS
Green Christine: A Profile of Senator Milne
Amanda Lohrey
Milne is delayed, which gives me a moment to enjoy the view from her office. It's a big glassed-in semicircle that looks down the Derwent...
More ...Divided We Fall: The Australian Greens Party
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...
More ...What’s Right? The Future of the Liberal Party
Peter van Onselen
A new way of clustering Liberal MPs has emerged since the Coalition was defeated at the 2007 election. An old-fashioned state-based divide...
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POLITICS
Comment: The Greens and Fundamentalism
Mark Aarons
Despite the new reality in the Senate, there are ominous signs for centre-left politics. The bitter invective recently directed at the...
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MEDIA
Annabel Crabb with David Marr on the life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Writer and journalist Annabel Crabb speaks to David Marr about the subject of her new Quarterly Essay, Stop At Nothing: The...
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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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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WORLD
Comment: The Anzac Spirit
Sally Neighbour
The tone, almost invariably, is one of awed and sentimental reverence, descending at times into jingoistic puffery. Without question, the...
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POLITICS
Two Nations: The Case for a National Disability Insurance Scheme
Anne Manne
Seven years ago, while bathing in a private backyard pool, she was terribly injured when a 90 kilogram man accidentally fell on her. The...
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