SOCIETY
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
The Inaugural Gandhi Oration. Pat Dodson
The Inaugural Gandhi Oration is presented by Professor Patrick Dodson, Director of the Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Research Unit at the...
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SOCIETY
The Beat Goes On: Sex and Secrets in Public Parks
Sonya Hartnett
In a corner of the Darling Gardens in Melbourne’s boutique inner-city suburb of Clifton Hill stands a small, well-maintained toilet block...
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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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SOCIETY
So Who the Bloody Hell Are You?: Scott Morrison
Nick Bryant
In a country that has always exhibited a fickle streak towards foreigners heading for its shores, Scott Morrison is especially well...
More ...Angry Boys: Republicans and the US Presidential Race
Julia Baird
The Family Table Restaurant is a small, dingy diner in Atlantic, Iowa, the state known as the Hawkeye State, that claims to be the corn...
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CULTURE
The Art of Ideas: Wim Delvoye at MONA
Amanda Lohrey
The phenomenon that is Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a Plato’s cave of multi-layered subterranean space where shadows of 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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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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SOCIETY
Left Behind: Why the Right Keeps Winning
Peter Hartcher
It was Carnegie, son of the arch-establishment businessman Sir Rod Carnegie, who emerged as the media star of the Gillard government’s tax...
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POLITICS
All About Cory: Cory Bernardi, Conservative Warrior
Sally Neighbour
“When you first come into this place, all the walls are blank, and after the first bonhomie’s done and people say hello, you’re left alone...
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WORLD
In the Picture: Burma
Sebastian Strangio
The woman they call the Lady is all over town, staring down from the walls of teashops, hanging on sun-dappled street corners, perched on...
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WORLD
Long in the Tooth: Trixie Gardner
Paola Totaro
The Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Conservative member of the British House of Lords, waves me through the Peers’ Lobby and with an informal “...
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CULTURE
The Life Not Lived: Reflections on Scholarship
Peter Robb
Donaldson’s eyes narrowed when I mentioned Oxford’s own great edition of Jonson. Eleven thick octavo volumes printed magnificently and...
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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SOCIETY
How To Stop the Boats. Khalid Koser
At this Lowy Lecture, global migration expert Dr Khalid Koser reviews and assesses the Australian government's efforts to reduce...
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CULTURE
'Outland' by Kevin Carlin
Benjamin Law
On paper, the premise of the new ABC1 sitcom Outland seems too self-consciously quirky for its own good. Homosexuals and sci-fi nerds?...
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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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23 February 2012
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