WORLD
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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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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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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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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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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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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CULTURE
Gumbo: Allen Toussaint and New Orleans
Paul Kelly
My job as a singer–songwriter often involves being interviewed. One of the questions I’m asked most frequently, up there with “What comes...
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CULTURE
The Bride Wore Black: Akira Isogawa
Peter Robb
Think ‘dress designer’ and what comes to mind? Not a whole lot of fun. Think of the last picture you saw of Karl Lagerfeld or John Galliano...
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WORLD
Global Shifts: A Broader Perspective on Refugees. Antonio Guterres
The issue of refugees and asylum-seekers provokes heated public debate in countries around the world, not just in Australia. In this Lowy...
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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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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...
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POLITICS
Window Dressing: The Mirage of Political Reform
Lindsay Tanner
Such sentiments are understandable but misguided. The rules that govern how our political system works matter, but the development of...
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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WORLD
No Script, No Storyboard: William Kentridge
Sebastian Smee
“What times are these,” wrote Bertolt Brecht in his poem, ‘To Those Born After’, “when a talk about trees is almost a crime because it...
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CULTURE
Fred Schepisi & Vladimir Putin
As Fred Schepisi was whisked along the Rublyovka highway, past luxury car showrooms and Gucci boutiques, he reflected on how much Moscow...
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WORLD
'The Chemistry of Tears' By Peter Carey
Jennifer Byrne
In the peaty depths of Germany’s Black Forest, nineteenth-century English gentleman Henry Brandling commissions a giant clockwork automaton...
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23 February 2012
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