November 5, 2018
Once is enough
Culture
Reflections on weddings after the legislation of marriage equality – an extract
David Marr
By this author
December 1, 2016
The art of biography
Culture
The author stays out of the picture, and other personal rules of writing
March 27, 2017
Your handy guide to political newspeak
blog
To help combat unwelcome ideas about sex, women, human rights and especially race
September 28, 2015
Brutal maths
blog
The rise of Bill Shorten in Victoria’s faction wars
May 1, 2015
Received wisdom
Culture
David Malouf’s extraordinary musings on life and art
September 1, 2014
End of the road
Books
Helen Garner’s ‘This House of Grief’
September 1, 2014
Freedom Abbott
essay
The brief life and quiet death of Tony Abbott’s love of liberty
November 27, 2013
David Marr and George Pell correspondence following the Quarterly Essay, The Prince
blog
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. - …
September 18, 2013
The Prince: George Pell
blog
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 …
March 21, 2013
Political Animal
Tony Abbott
The Making of Tony Abbott
September 10, 2012
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott
Liberal Party
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 …
December 1, 2011
The Politics of News
News Corporation
David McKnight’s 'Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Power'
November 3, 2011
Age of innocence
Culture
Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Cold Light’