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April 1, 2018Tim Winton’s ‘The Shepherd’s Hut’
One of Australia’s most acclaimed novelists offers a painful and beautiful story of redemption
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August 1, 2017Where we live
Ian Strange’s latest exhibition, ‘ISLAND’, explores our complex relationship with the family home
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December 2, 2016Dialectics of truthiness
In the post-truth era, the politician talks out of his arse and his followers think with their guts
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October 27, 2015Geert by sea
The anti-Islam Australian Liberty Alliance may be very confused, but it’s still dangerous
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July 10, 2015Border farce
The absurd double standard behind the government’s “sovereignty” message
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May 15, 2015Breathing the haunted air
Richard Di Natale and the ideological roots of pragmatism
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May 1, 2014Ceridwen Dovey’s ‘Only the Animals’
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March 1, 2014The WA shark cull
Behind the rhetoric of protesters and promoters