August 2011

August 2011

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Chris Mitchell and Christine Jackman at the launch of Jackman's 'Inside Kevin 07', Walsh Bay, June 2008. Seated behind them (left to right) are the Australian's Dennis Shanahan, Paul Whittaker, Glenn Milne, and Nick Cater. © Alan Pryke/Newspix

Media

The United States of Chris Mitchell

By Sally Neighbour

The power of Rupert Murdoch and the Australian’s editor-in-chief

Julia Gillard one year into her prime ministership, July 2011. © Kym Smith/Newspix

Media

Prime Minister, interrupted

By Annabel Crabb

Why one year after the election voters still don’t know who Gillard is

Community and disability activist Rhonda Galbally with members of the Human Rights Committee for Victoria at Parliament House, Melbourne, June 2005. © Eddie Jim/Fairfax Syndication

Issues and policies

Two nations

By Anne Manne

The case for a national disability insurance scheme

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Paul Keating in 2007. © Idpercy/Flickr
Refugees aboard the Tampa, 27 August 2001. © Tampa/Wilhelmsen Group/AFP
Illustration by Jeff Fisher.

Issues and policies

Coal’s next alibi

By Guy Pearse

The coal industry’s coal-fed algae plan

Illustration by Jeff Fisher.

Food

Gourmet gore

By Benjamin Law

Our animal instincts for eating meat

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A scene from Stuck Pigs Squealing's 2005 production of 'The Black Swan of Trespass'. © Brett Boardman Photography

Theatre

Out of the box

By Peter Robb

Meeting Lally Katz

'Fred Williams', 1981, by Rennie Ellis. © Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive

Art

Under the skin

By Peter Conrad

‘Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons’

Buddy Holly singing at the Nurses Memorial Centre on St Kilda Rd, Melbourne, with Joe B Mauldin on bass and Jerry Allison on drums, 5 February 1958. Image courtesy of Roderick Jordan. © Roderick Jordan

Music

Maybe baby

By Robert Forster

‘Rave on Buddy Holly’

After life

Dance

After life

By Louis Nowra

Wim Wenders’ ‘Pina’ and Alain Corneau’s ‘Love Crime’

A Victorian-era postcard an age-old problem. © Wikimedia Commons

Books

What’s sex got to do with it?

By Anne Summers

‘Sex: An unnatural history’

Japanese government ad proclaiming that what women really want is a man who owns government bonds. © Ministry of Finance Japan/Dentsu

Books

Air traffic out of control

By Lindsay Tanner

'Extreme Money' by Satyajit Das

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'Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now', Art Gallery of South Australia, 30 July to 23 October 2011
'Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future', By Paul Cleary,Black Inc., 160pp; $24.95
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Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
Words: Shane Maloney | Illustration: Chris Grosz
August 2011