March 5, 2008
Packed it in
Society
The demise of the 'Bulletin'
Gideon Haigh
By this author
February 6, 2008
Monkey business
Society
A couple of days after the second Test between Australia and India ended at the Sydney Cricket Ground amid acrimony and indignation, I boarded the tram for an evening’s practice at my cricket club with 15-year-old Bill. A bright boy, Bill. I knew him …
November 7, 2007
The principle of necessity
Politics
Justice Menhennitt & Australia’s Roe v Wade
October 3, 2007
Backing the truck up
nation_reviewed
Australians go to the polls this month in elections with a huge bearing on their future prosperity, in which they will not only return every candidate by an overwhelming majority but consent to the massive pay rises these people have demanded - pay rises, …
September 5, 2007
Let a thousand weeds bloom
arts
Andrew Keen’s ‘The Cult of the Amateur’
August 1, 2007
Trunk call
Society
A story is told of the young Tom Stoppard applying for a job in Fleet Street. "It says here you're interested in politics," said the interviewer. "OK. Who's the home secretary?" Stoppard blandly returned his gaze. "I said I was interested," he answered. …
July 4, 2007
Who’s afraid of Macquarie Bank?
essay
The story of the millionaire’s factory
June 6, 2007
Shute the messenger
Society
How the end of the world came to Melbourne
May 2, 2007
Out of Africa
Society
In the 1960s, one of the catchcries of the anti-apartheid movement seeking the exile of South African athletes was "no normal sport in an abnormal society". So judgemental. Surely that should have been "differently abled" society. And hey, what's normal …
March 7, 2007
Read all about it
arts
Fred Hilmer’s ‘The Fairfax Experience’
February 7, 2007
The war not thought
arts
Les Carlyon’s ‘The Great War’
November 1, 2006
British rules
essay
Why we’re still more English than American