October 1, 2014
Kelly country
Australian Politics
Contesting Paul Kelly’s ‘Triumph and Demise’
Robert Manne
By this author
July 14, 2014
Chris Mitchell, The Australian and Iraq
Murdoch press
The political nation learned this morning, to its considerable surprise, that Chris Mitchell, the editor-in-chief of The Australian, was always a secret opponent of the invasion of Iraq – an invasion that has been responsible …
September 1, 2014
The Snowden files
Edward Snowden
What drives Edward Snowden, the world’s most wanted whistleblower?
November 1, 2013
Watch Hannah Arendt In Conversation
blog
Hannah Arendt was one of the most significant and profound political thinkers of the twentieth century. Recently the German director, Margarethe von Trotta, has produced a film about her, centring on the period when she wrote her book on the Eichmann …
November 1, 2013
Why Rupert Murdoch can’t be stopped
essay
The political empire of the News Corp chairman
August 1, 2013
Wilfred Burchett and the KGB
Society
The legendary war correspondent was in the pay of the KGB
July 1, 2013
We Steal Secrets: A response from Alex Gibney
blog
Dear Robert: Here are my reactions to your review. They appear as comments in your text. While I disagree with most of your views, I thank you for expressing them in a dispassionate way. Best, Alex We …
July 1, 2013
Alex Gibney’s ‘We Steal Secrets: the Story of WikiLeaks’
Culture
This documentary’s sympathies are not with Julian Assange
April 1, 2013
Abbott steps up on reconciliation
Stolen Generations
Lest we forget
March 1, 2013
Australia’s shipwrecked refugee policy
Asylum seekers
Tragedy of Errors
October 22, 2012
On the University Experience – Then and Now
Universities
Before the Second World War a very small minority of the population in Western societies, predominantly men, predominantly from the social elite, went to universities. From the late 1950s that changed, with a progressively larger number of people on the …
August 2, 2012
How vested interests defeated climate science
essay
A Dark Victory
July 21, 2012
The Return of Rudd?
Labor Party
Sometimes the choices politicians have to make are excruciatingly difficult. However in the case of the present leadership bid being waged by the pro-Rudd forces, the choice before members of the federal Labor Party caucus is really very simple. In June …