‘Health and good order’
If Novak Djokovic is “a talisman of anti-vaccination sentiment”, what does that make George Christensen?June 2008
Essays
Wilfred Burchett booklist
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 South Wales Press, 2005)
George Burchett & Nick Shimmin, eds, Rebel Journalism: The Writings of Wilfred Burchett
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Tibor Méray, On Burchett
(Callistemon Publications, 2008: PO Box 293, Belgrave VIC 3160)
Stephen Endicott & Edward Hagerman, The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea
(Indiana University Press, 1999)
Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: China's Secret Famine
(Hachette Livre, 1997)
Wilfred Burchett's books are currently out of print.
On Her Majesty’s secret disservice
The reporter who uncovered the truth about Kim Philby, the 20th century’s most infamous spy, and his warnings for democratic society
Echidna poo has changed our understanding of human evolution
Citizen science is not only helping echidna conservation, but changing how we think about evolution
The artist making sculpture for penguins
How creating sculpture for animals is transforming wildlife conservation and the art world
The fossil-fuel industry’s grip on Australian hearts and minds
Is there hope that public misconceptions of the importance of coal and gas can be overcome?
The unhinged pursuit of profit is destroying us
To undo the worst of neoliberalism we need to target need, rather than race or identity
The stunted country
There can be no republic without constitutional recognition of Indigenous AustraliansOn Her Majesty’s secret disservice
The reporter who uncovered the truth about Kim Philby, the 20th century’s most infamous spy, and his warnings for democratic society
‘The Worst Person in the World’
Renate Reinsve is exceptional in Joachim Trier’s satisfying Nordic rom-com
Family’s grief compounded by WA’s hard border
The awful predicament of a Melbourne family unable to bring home their son’s body shows the callousness of WA’s border policy
The best of 2021 on screen
This year may have been difficult to live through, but it produced an extraordinary crop of films
Raising the stakes: ‘Firebite’
Warwick Thornton’s magnificently pulpy Indigenous vampire-hunter drama leads the pack of December streaming highlights
