SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
POLITICS
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...
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WORLD
Comment: Address to the US President: Draft for a Prime Minister’s Address on the Occasion of Another Visit from the President of the United States
Don Watson
Mr President, Thank you for making room in your busy schedule to see me while you are in Darwin. In the short time I have at your disposal...
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WORLD
Philosophic Emissions: Roger Scruton’s 'Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously about the Planet'
Peter Singer
Climate change is a threat to us all but it poses a particular difficulty for those who, like English philosopher Roger Scruton, are on the...
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POLITICS
Prime Minister, Interrupted: Why One Year After the Election Voters Still Don’t Know Who Gillard Is
Annabel Crabb
In return for this triennial exertion, Australian voters implicitly demand a few standards. We don’t have the American horror of big...
More ...Comment: Phoney Education
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 Elephant in the Room: Australia–India Relations
Michael Wesley
Great expectations attend the Australia–India relationship. The Labor Party’s agreement to sell uranium to India has removed a major...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Looks Department: The Rise of Cosmetic Medicine
Tanveer Ahmed
Dr Joseph Ajaka came to the world of cosmetic medicine in 2006 after the messy rupture of his training to become an anaesthetist. After...
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ENVIRONMENT
The Honest Broker: Scientists and Politics. Roger Pielke Jr
Scientists, and experts more generally, have choices about the roles that they play in today's political debates on topics such as global...
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Club Rules: The Phoney War on Bikie Gangs
Adam Shand
The strength of that commitment will soon be tested. The South Australian premier, Mike Rann, has just enacted what he calls the toughest...
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WORLD
The Baskerville Case: Norfolk Island’s chickens
Ashley Hay
There are several things an astute observer will notice on arriving to Norfolk Island. First, the island’s eponymous pine trees, which rise...
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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...
More ...Cruising: Life and death on the high seas
Malcolm Knox
The group's dynamic is manifest in the photo. All but two are smiling. Five have criminal charges or convictions. Dragan Losic, slot...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Work and Play: Melbourne Zoo at 150
Christine Kenneally
The exoskeleton of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect is such a deep, glazed black that it looks like it crawled out of a Flemish oil...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
It Tolls for Thee: Generation Text
Guy Pearse
Ping! New message received. “Hi, this is Dr Carl O’Kane from the Townsville Hospital emergency department. I was taking your medical...
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Murdoch's War: How a lovestruck teenager, an angry man and an ambitious baron made sure bad news was no news on the path to Iraq
Robert Manne
Four months later on January 17, 2003, the Hobart Mercury was singing the standard Murdoch tune:History is littered with the victims of...
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POLITICS
Comment: Palin Politics and the Tea Party
Don Watson
The fact of the automobile for instance; and Big Oil, which fuelled it; and the strip malls, which made the car indispensable to commerce,...
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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...
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WORLD
Comment: The Queensland Floods
Alex Miller
When I first arrived in the central Queensland town of Springsure on the train the previous year the roads were impassable and I was stuck...
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Patrick White: The final chapter
David Marr
We climbed down and after some hesitation found a spot where waves were washing through a rock pool. A couple of fishermen had lines in the...
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23 February 2012
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