Society
November 1, 2017Police, don’t move!
Former police officer Timothy Baker goes on trial for murder
Catherine Ford
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April 1, 2016Very unusual payments
IBAC investigates the Victorian education department’s failed Ultranet
Society
August 1, 2015Department of disgrace
IBAC investigates Victoria’s rotten education bureaucracy
May 1, 2014
Lorrie Moore’s ‘Bark’
Faber; $29.99
arts
April 1, 2014Craig Sherborne’s ‘Tree Palace’
Text; $29.99
arts
November 1, 2013Shaun Tan ’s ‘Rules of Summer’
Hachette; $24.99
October 1, 2013
Begging the Breaker’s pardon
On a rainy Saturday in July, a small audience in Melbourne’s Supreme Court building heard the moot court appeal to overturn the convictions of three Australian soldiers made more than 110 years ago in South Africa. Found guilty by courts martial …
Culture
August 1, 2013‘The Night Guest’ by Fiona McFarlane
Hamish Hamilton; $29.99
essay
July 1, 2013John Newton’s ‘A Savage History: Whaling in the Pacific and Southern Oceans’
An account of commercial whaling’s ignoble past
Indigenous rights
May 1, 2013The Aurukun blues of Peter Sutton
An anthropologist hits the skids in Cape York
Non-Fiction
April 1, 2013‘Madeleine: The life of Madeleine St John’
By Helen Trinca
Indigenous disadvantage
November 1, 2012Great Expectations
Inside Noel Pearson's social experiment
Christos Tsiolkas
November 1, 2012‘Dead Europe’ by Tony Krawitz (director)
When Greek-Australian photographer Isaac Raftis, the protagonist in Tony Krawitz’s adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’ novel, announces a trip to Europe to train a lens on his family’s long-abandoned homeland, he’s submitted to hostile …
October 5, 2012
’Montebello’ by Robert Drewe
On the day in 1952 that Britain detonated the first of three atomic bombs off the Pilbara coast, Robert Drewe was in a Perth phone box, begging a late-pass from his mother. He was nine; his mother was anxious. “Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, …
Books
August 2, 2012’The Dinner’ by Herman Koch
When Serge Lohman, the Netherlands’ favourite candidate for prime minister, dines at an exclusive restaurant with his younger brother Paul, we know there’s scrofulous business ahead in Herman Koch’s grim and perturbing novel, The Dinner. …