
Politics
February 7, 2007A Turkish tale
Gallipoli and the Armenian genocide
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Politics
February 7, 2007A Turkish tale
Gallipoli and the Armenian genocide
nation_reviewed
November 1, 2006Media reform
Last month, the federal parliament passed the most important media laws in 20 years. The laws allow newspaper owners to move into free-to-air television; they allow television owners to purchase a newspaper chain. Before their passage, controversy arose …
essay
August 2, 2006Yes, Virginia, there is a clash of civilisations
Islamism, Islamophobia and Australia
Politics
May 3, 2006Comment
Constitutional conservatives often suggest that there once existed a Golden Age in Australia when the Westminster principle of ministerial responsibility was scrupulously honoured. Defenders of the Howard government usually claim that there has been no …
essay
March 8, 2006Little America
How John Howard has changed Australia
Politics
February 8, 2006Global warming
2005 was the warmest year in the history of Australia and the second warmest in the history of the Earth since records have been kept. Ten of the Earth’s 11 warmest years have occurred since 1990. The European summer of 2003 was so hot that, according …
Politics
October 5, 2005Biff goes Bang
The last word on Mark Latham, the man everyone is hearing but no one is listening to
essay
September 7, 2005The unknown story of Cornelia Rau
How an Australian citizen was wrongfully incarcerated in immigration detention
Politics
July 6, 2005Murdoch’s war
How a lovestruck teenager, an angry man and an ambitious baron made sure bad news was no news on the path to Iraq
essay
June 1, 2005Dead disturbing. A bloodthirsty tale that plays with the fire of anti-semitism
‘Dead Europe’ by Christos Tsiolkas