
Politics
December 1, 2018Rebellion in Dutton country
Labor, the Greens and GetUp are preparing for battle in the Queensland electorate of Dickson
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Politics
December 1, 2018Rebellion in Dutton country
Labor, the Greens and GetUp are preparing for battle in the Queensland electorate of Dickson
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June 3, 2013Man united
Clive Palmer and his Palmer United Party
Books
June 1, 2012Winning Enemies
The humiliating retreat from the southern Iraqi city of Basra, into cantonment at the airport, is widely regarded as the modern nadir of the British military. On 2 September 2007, a bugle sounded ‘Advance’ to signal the withdrawal, and a convoy carrying …
Comment: The Shock Jock Rule of Campbell Newman
It was Winston Churchill who famously refused to cut funding to the arts to pay for more Spitfires and destroyers during the grimmest days of World War II, demanding of his art-hating, penny-pinching advisers in Treasury, “Then what are we fighting …
Society
October 1, 2010The man who fell to Earth
Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks
Culture
September 3, 2010‘Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests’ by Anna Krien
Tasmania is another country, sometimes another world. To move beyond the edge of settlement, which largely peters out a short drive from the fairytale towns of Hobart and Launceston, is to pass into an antipodean Middle Earth. As quickly becomes clear …
arts
August 5, 2010‘Brisbane’ by Matthew Condon
Cities have memories that outlive those who first held them. London will always recall the Blitz, Rome the glories of empire. Some memories are, of course, lost. Time, war, civilisational collapse all take their toll. But how do you explain a city that …
Culture
June 2, 2010‘War’ by Sebastian Junger
It might seem strange and contrary, but among the many surprising truths in Sebastian Junger’s brilliant evocation of 15 months, on and off, spent at the front in Afghanistan is the presence of love at the heart of war. The strong bond that can develop …
Politics
December 4, 2009Failed state
New South Wales
Politics
November 5, 2009Changing frontiers
The National Party
Society
October 1, 2009Mash-up
A short history of the media future
Politics
September 7, 2009Looking west
Australia and the Indian Ocean
Society
July 3, 2009Soiled goods
The dimpled orange, bursting with sweetness, that you cut for your breakfast this morning had been dying from the moment it was plucked from its twig. Human hands might have grabbed it from the branch, or perhaps a giant mechanical harvester shook the …
Society
June 1, 2009The coming storm
Out of work in a land of plenty
Politics
July 2, 2008In the dark?
The same dirty old energy