August 1, 2019
Hellraiser
Politics
How evangelical footballer Israel Folau lit a fire under the culture wars
Malcolm Knox
By this author
August 1, 2014
Supermarket monsters
essay
Coles, Woolworths and the price we pay for their domination
April 1, 2018
Jeremy Heimans: the up-start
Society
The co-founder of GetUp! might be the most influential Australian in the world
December 6, 2012
On the Nose
Cricket
The rise of cricket’s faceless men
December 3, 2012
What the Boom Won’t Leave Behind
Mining boom
Mining literature
November 1, 2012
Singo & Gina
Liberal Party
The Worker's Party
May 3, 2012
One-sport Wonders
AFL
It’s the type of dewy summer morning when you can be sunburnt by 8 am. On the cricket field, 10 year olds in whites are hoping the hard ball won’t come their way, or, if it must, that they’ll be concentrating on the match and not that big woolly …
April 4, 2012
Randy House
New York Times
EL James’ 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
March 31, 2011
The old boy
Society
Knox Grammar’s Adrian Nisbett
December 2, 2010
Cronulla five years on
Politics
Ever since Willemering put a spear through Arthur Phillip’s shoulder at Manly Cove in 1790, Sydney’s beaches have had a reputation for hostility to new arrivals. The precious beauty of the coast lends itself to lines literally drawn in the sand. One …
October 1, 2010
The mission
Society
The Bowraville murders
June 30, 2010
The next chapter
Culture
Tom Gilliatt thought he was quick on the uptake of Amazon’s Kindle – until he took one home. The non-fiction publisher at Pan Macmillan had his company e-reader, one of the first in Australia, taken away by his 11-year-old son, Freddy. “I was going …
June 2, 2010
The hard stuff
Society
It was a recession; that’s my excuse. A friend got me a job interview with the world’s second-biggest management consultancy. A man and a woman sat me down in a conference room. They seemed barely older than me, children somehow left in charge of …