October 1, 2009
The insider
Politics
Paul Kelly’s ‘The March of Patriots’
Robert Manne
By this author
August 7, 2009
Turnbull’s challenge
Politics
John Howard appeared to be a practical and commonsensical man of affairs. In reality, he was not only an unusually ideological prime minister but also, according to an entirely accurate self-estimation, the most conservative leader in the history of Australia. …
June 1, 2009
The return of deficit economics
Politics
The Labor government of James Scullin was elected in October 1929, the month of the Wall Street crash, which history regards as the beginning of the Great Depression. In November 2007, the Labor government of Kevin Rudd was elected ten months before the …
May 6, 2009
The Rudd essay & the global financial crisis (Part I)
Politics
Introduction
March 1, 2009
Neo-Liberal meltdown
Politics
The response to the Prime Minister’s essay
November 5, 2008
What is Rudd’s agenda?
Politics
Before he became the Labor leader in late 2006, I held in my mind three wildly contradictory images of Kevin Rudd. In the first - derived from the memorably scurrilous portrait in The Latham Diaries - Rudd was a media-obsessed, vaultingly ambitious, duplicitous …
August 25, 2008
Apologetics and Hypocrisy
Australian media
An Exchange on Australian anticommunism and the Indonesian massacre of 1965-6 between Gerard Henderson and Robert Manne
August 6, 2008
Hotting up
Society
During the past several weeks I have been reading, with a racing pulse, some recent literature on global warming while watching, with a sinking heart, the political skirmishes connected to the introduction of the Rudd government's emissions-trading scheme. …
September 3, 2006
The Stolen Generations
Stolen Generations
A documentary collection
June 6, 2008
Keith Windschuttle and Robert Edgerton: a comparison of texts
Robert Manne
In November 2002 Keith Windschuttle published The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, volume one: Van Diemen's Land: 1803-1847. The publication was instantly greeted as a major cultural event almost entirely because of the accusation raised by …
June 4, 2008
Agent of influence
Politics
Reassessing Wilfred Burchett
June 4, 2008
Wilfred Burchett booklist
Wilfred Burchett
Tom Heenan, From Traveller to Traitor: The Life of Wilfred Burchett(Melbourne University Publishing, 2006)George Burchett & Nick Shimmin, eds, Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist: The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett(University of New …