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November 5, 2018Once is enough
Reflections on weddings after the legislation of marriage equality – an extract
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November 5, 2018Once is enough
Reflections on weddings after the legislation of marriage equality – an extract
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March 27, 2017Your handy guide to political newspeak
To help combat unwelcome ideas about sex, women, human rights and especially race
Culture
December 1, 2016The art of biography
The author stays out of the picture, and other personal rules of writing
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September 28, 2015Brutal maths
The rise of Bill Shorten in Victoria’s faction wars
Culture
May 1, 2015Received wisdom
David Malouf’s extraordinary musings on life and art
Books
September 1, 2014End of the road
Helen Garner’s ‘This House of Grief’
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September 1, 2014Freedom Abbott
The brief life and quiet death of Tony Abbott’s love of liberty
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November 27, 2013David Marr and George Pell correspondence following the Quarterly Essay, The Prince
A predictable and selective rehash of old material. G.K. Chesterton said: “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” Marr has no idea what motivates a believing Christian. - …
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September 18, 2013The Prince: George Pell
The presbytery of St Alipius is a redbrick gothic bungalow built when gold money was still washing through Ballarat. It sits in a Catholic compound of brick and granite schools and convents where the road from Melbourne reaches town. White crosses stand …
Tony Abbott
March 21, 2013Political Animal
The Making of Tony Abbott
Liberal Party
September 10, 2012Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott
I am not asking the Australian people to take me on trust but on the record of a lifetime and an instinct to serve ingrained long before I became opposition leader: as a student president, trainee priest, Rhodes Scholar, surf life-saver and volunteer …
News Corporation
December 1, 2011The Politics of News
David McKnight’s 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Power'
Culture
November 3, 2011Age of innocence
Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Cold Light’
Culture
September 1, 2011The magic of exile
Anna Funder’s “All That I Am”
Society
December 4, 2009Anglican business
Sydney’s brand new archbishop wanted money – lots and lots of money – to persuade 400,000 souls in the nation’s most sinful city “to serve Christ in love” within a decade. By chance – or malign good fortune, perhaps – Peter Jensen’s …