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The ideological sheltered workshop, a.k.a. "The Australian"
blog
The ‘Cut and Paste’ section of The Australian on October 8 had the following headline: So who’s in denial now about what the science is saying about global warming? It was followed by the sub-heading: Here at …
The Snowden files
essay
What drives Edward Snowden, the world’s most wanted whistleblower?
Kelly country
Australian Politics
Contesting Paul Kelly’s ‘Triumph and Demise’
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 …
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 …
Why Rupert Murdoch can’t be stopped
essay
The political empire of the News Corp chairman
Wilfred Burchett and the KGB
Society
The legendary war correspondent was in the pay of the KGB
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 …
Alex Gibney’s ‘We Steal Secrets: the Story of WikiLeaks’
Culture
This documentary’s sympathies are not with Julian Assange
Abbott steps up on reconciliation
Stolen Generations
Lest we forget
Australia’s shipwrecked refugee policy
essay
Tragedy of Errors
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 …
How vested interests defeated climate science
Politics
A Dark Victory
