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    Thornton McCamish

    Thornton McCamish
    Thornton McCamish is a Melbourne-based journalist and author. His most recent book is Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead.



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    Detail of cover of ‘Surviving Autocracy’
    September 1, 2020

    Attack on language: ‘Surviving Autocracy’ and ‘Twilight of Democracy’

    Culture

    Masha Gessen and Anne Applebaum sound alarms on how ‘post-truth’ public debate leaves us mute in the face of autocracy

    Illustration
    September 1, 2019

    Spiralling admissions

    Society

    Victoria’s royal commission hears stories of a dysfunctional, under-resourced mental health system

    Image of Alan Bond and Bob Hawke
    December 2, 2019

    Australia 2.0

    Society

    The America’s Cup winged keel and the transformation of a nation

    Image of Laurie Matheson
    September 1, 2018

    Laurie Matheson, our man in Moscow

    Society

    Was ‘Australia’s James Bond’ working for the KGB? Or ASIO? Or both?

    Illustration
    March 1, 2017

    The unedited life

    Culture

    What is the allure of the writer’s archive?

    Image of Sydney University graduate
    September 1, 2016

    Thinking caps on

    Society

    Where has demand driven our universities?

    Alan Moorehead image
    March 1, 2016

    Notes on a disappearance

    Culture

    Alan Moorehead, Australia’s forgotten literary giant

    Warren Entsch at the Coming of the Light festival on Thursday Island, July 2013. © Aaron Smith
    October 1, 2014

    Island time

    Travel

    A trip through the Torres Strait to see the Coming of the Light festival




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