Law: Torture
SOCIETY
Clean As You Go: A Correspondence with Clive James
Paola Totaro
Unfortunately my health is indecent at the moment. I’m in Addenbrooke’s being seen to but I should be back in London next week and I’ll...
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
Broken Communities: Helen Garner on Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown and Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards
Helen Garner
In 1999, in the small South Australian township of Snowtown, police entered the vault of a disused bank and found a serial killer’s stash:...
More ...The Sound of Silence: Craig Sherborne on Hiking the Milford Track, New Zealand
Craig Sherborne
Bliss can never happen of its own accord. When it has been years-long away it needs some outside intervention. Narcotic versions were never...
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WORLD
Triumph of the Kill: Susanne Bier’s 'In a Better World' and Denis Villeneuve’s 'Incendies'
Luke Davies
In Susanne Bier’s In a Better World (in national release on 21 April) – this year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film – there’s a...
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SOCIETY
Tools of the Trade: Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis' 'Machete' and Sean Byrne’s 'The Loved Ones'
Luke Davies
“Every time an illegal dances across our border,” says Senator John McLaughlin (Robert de Niro) at a rally, “it is an act of aggression...
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SOCIETY
Primal Scenes: Tim Burton: The Exhibition
John Baxter
When I taught at an American college in the 1970s, my students asked if I’d mind finishing my afternoon lectures early: local TV was re-...
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SOCIETY
Religion and the future of torture. George Hunsinger (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Taking the thoughts of Solzhenitsyn and Orwell as a starting point, George Hunsinger speaks on the modern practices of...
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SOCIETY
Religion and the future of torture. George Hunsinger
George Hunsinger
Part 1 | Part 2 Taking the thoughts of Solzhenitsyn and Orwell as a starting point, activist minister and academic George Hunsinger speaks...
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The Cambodian Genocide: Francis Deron's 'The Trial of the Khmer Rouge'
Simon Leys
One remembers the last lines of Kafka’s Trial: Josef K, an innocent citizen who fell into an incomprehensible and endless web of judicial...
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SOCIETY
Norman Gunston & Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa was no stranger to Australia and its wildlife. Inspired by a monotreme encountered during his 1973 tour, the avant-rock...
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Unhappy Families: Sonya Hartnett’s 'Butterfly'
Craig Sherborne
If we didn't have childhoods we'd be much better people. We'd start out as grown-ups innocent as lambs. We wouldn't have behind us all...
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SOCIETY
Standard Operating Procedure (p2)
Julian Burnside
Standard operating procedure. Just ordinary Americans. What went wrong at Abu Ghraib? At this recent Melbourne Writers Festival session...
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SOCIETY
Standard Operating Procedure: Philip Gourevitch, Julian Burnside and Gerry Simpson
Julian Burnside
Standard operating procedure. Just ordinary Americans. What went wrong at Abu Ghraib? At this fascinating Melbourne Writers Festival...
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CULTURE
Philippe Sands and Anna Funder discuss torture and the human rights abuses of Guantanamo Bay (p2)
Anna Funder
Professor of International Law Philippe Sands (author of the acclaimed Torture Team) tells Anna Funder how Donald Rumsfeld, with his...
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CULTURE
Philippe Sands and Anna Funder discuss torture and the human rights abuses of Guantanamo Bay
Anna Funder
Professor of International Law Philippe Sands (author of the acclaimed Torture Team) tells Anna Funder how Donald Rumsfeld, with his...
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Horrorshow: Michael Haneke’s ‘Funny Games’
Luke Davies
"And when he overcomes the gravitational forces, it turns out that one universe is real and the other is fiction." Two young men, barely...
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Sing Out Loud, Sing Out Strong: Opera in Australia
Peter Craven
It's an odd business, a night at the opera. You know, if you like the diversion, that you are basking in the glow of an artistic...
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‘Poe: A Life Cut Short’ by Peter Ackroyd
Justin Clemens
Born into poverty, sickness and vagabondage, Edgar Allan Poe was doomed from the beginning. His parents were actors, a déclassé profession...
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Politics, Writing, Love: Writing ‘The Unknown Terrorist’
Richard Flanagan
I met David Hicks not long before he was released from Guantanamo Bay. He was drinking Makers Mark bourbon in a bar in Greenwood, a fading...
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A Letter to the Prime Minister from Death Row
Richard Bourke
Dear Prime Minister,I think it is wrong to kill people. It has become apparent that you and I differ on this. In particular, I think it is...
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