August 2013

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Gerehu Market, Port Moresby. © Ness Kerton / AAP

Federal politics

On the road with Julia Gillard

By Chloe Hooper

Sketches of a prime minister in her final months

Wilfred Burchett in Vietnam, c.1965. © The Wilfred Burchett Estate

History

Wilfred Burchett and the KGB

By Robert Manne

The legendary war correspondent was in the pay of the KGB

Tim Minchin in rehearsals at the Sydney Theatre company. © Lisa Tomasetti

Theatre

Tim Minchin plays it straight

By Jo Lennan

The musical funnyman returns home

The Nation Reviewed  Right arrow

In praise of Tony Windsor

Federal politics

In praise of Tony Windsor

By Don Watson

Fan mail for the former MP

Changing prime ministers

Federal politics

Changing prime ministers

By Judith Brett

What Kevin Rudd could learn from Julia Gillard about leadership

Rudd’s comeback and Murdoch’s counterattack
Fracking and food security

Federal politics

Fracking and food security

By Amanda Lohrey

The Greens chase the farming vote

Censorship, sex and scandal in Singapore

International politics

Censorship, sex and scandal in Singapore

By André Dao

For the city-state’s academics, freedom of speech is a sensitive subject

Our septuagenarian cricketers

Sport

Our septuagenarian cricketers

By Ashley Hay

It’s never too late to wear the baggy green

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© Astrid Dalum

Books

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’

By James Button

The Norwegian author delivers autobiography as Scandi noir

Kim Carr at Mt Stromlo Observatory in 2011. © Allan Porritt / AAP

Books

Books on the future of the ALP

By John McTernan

It’s time to read about the “true believers”

© David Fitzgerald

Music

Iggy Azalea and hip-hop’s bikini wasteland

By Marieke Hardy

Can the Australian-born rapper shake off the stereotypes?

Stories We Tell’s Sarah Polley

‘Stories We Tell’, ‘Frances Ha’ and ‘Upstream Colour’

By Luke Davies

New films from Sarah Polley, Noah Baumbach and Shane Carruth

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‘The Night Guest’ by Fiona McFarlane
‘The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia’ by Solahudin
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Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
Peter Cook & John Clarke
August 2013