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The history wars
Politics
Paul Keating and John Howard were early players in what Australians have come to call the History Wars, whose main field of battle is the bitter and still unresolved cultural struggle over the nature of the Indigenous dispossession and the place it should …
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. …
The insider
Politics
Paul Kelly’s ‘The March of Patriots’
Why we weren’t warned
Politics
The Victorian bushfires and the royal commission
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 …
The Rudd essay & the global financial crisis (Part I)
Politics
Introduction
Neo-Liberal meltdown
Politics
The response to the Prime Minister’s essay
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 …
Apologetics and Hypocrisy
Australian media
An Exchange on Australian anticommunism and the Indonesian massacre of 1965-6 between Gerard Henderson and Robert Manne
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. …
The Stolen Generations
Stolen Generations
A documentary collection
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 …
Agent of influence
Politics
Reassessing Wilfred Burchett
