November 1, 2017
Police, don’t move!
Society
Former police officer Timothy Baker goes on trial for murder
Catherine Ford
By this author
August 1, 2015
Department of disgrace
Society
IBAC investigates Victoria’s rotten education bureaucracy
April 1, 2016
Very unusual payments
Society
IBAC investigates the Victorian education department’s failed Ultranet
May 1, 2014
Lorrie Moore’s ‘Bark’
Short Stories
Faber; $29.99
April 1, 2014
Craig Sherborne’s ‘Tree Palace’
arts
Text; $29.99
November 1, 2013
Shaun Tan ’s ‘Rules of Summer’
arts
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 …
August 1, 2013
‘The Night Guest’ by Fiona McFarlane
Culture
Hamish Hamilton; $29.99
July 1, 2013
John Newton’s ‘A Savage History: Whaling in the Pacific and Southern Oceans’
essay
An account of commercial whaling’s ignoble past
May 1, 2013
The Aurukun blues of Peter Sutton
Indigenous rights
An anthropologist hits the skids in Cape York
April 1, 2013
‘Madeleine: The life of Madeleine St John’
Non-Fiction
By Helen Trinca
November 1, 2012
Great Expectations
Indigenous disadvantage
Inside Noel Pearson's social experiment
November 1, 2012
‘Dead Europe’ by Tony Krawitz (director)
Christos Tsiolkas
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 …