
The avoidable war
Kevin Rudd on China, the US and the forces of historyAugust 2014
Arts & Letters
Virtually pointless
The 'Augmented Australia' app in action. © Alexander Mayes Photography
The avoidable war
Kevin Rudd on China, the US and the forces of historyIn light of recent events
Who’s preferencing whom?Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
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David Gulpilil brings Rolf de Heer’s ‘Charlie’s Country’ alive, but Nick Cave can’t save Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s ‘20,000 Days on Earth’Crazy pills
Our obsession with vitamins is getting out of handSupermarket monsters
Coles, Woolworths and the price we pay for their dominationMust we choose between climate-change action and freedom of speech?
The science is clear, but the way forward is notThe quip and the dead: Steve Toltz’s ‘Here Goes Nothing’
A bleakly satirical look at death and the afterlife from the wisecracking author of ‘A Fraction of the Whole’Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianistOne small step: ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ and ‘Deep Water’
Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped film evokes the optimism of late-1960s America, while Patricia Highsmith’s thriller gets another disappointing adaptationArt heist: The landmark conviction of an Aboriginal art centre’s manager
The jailing of Mornington Island Art’s chief executive for dishonest dealing has shone a light on ethics and colonialism in the Indigenous art worldPlans never imagined: Architect Timothy Hill
The ‘Longhouse’ and the ‘Multihouse’ confirm the director of Partners Hill as the country’s most important and influential architect of the past 30 yearsTwo worlds at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
The consumption of space, land and habitat is Australia’s focus at the world’s pre-eminent architecture eventWalking the Wukalina Walk
A new four-day tour in Tasmania is owned and guided by Aboriginal peopleMurcutt’s mosque
The Australian Islamic Centre is notable for what it isn’t as much as for what it isThe avoidable war
Kevin Rudd on China, the US and the forces of historyElection special: Who should you vote for?
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The Australian War Memorial and the Great Australian SilenceProperty damage
What will it take for Australia to fix the affordable housing crisis?