Julia Gillard
The Strategist
Julia Gillard’s hard-nosed director of communications
World War I
Lest We Inflate
Why do Australians lust for heroic war stories?
Literature
Free Agent
Anna Funder finds her feet in Brooklyn
History
On the Nose
The rise of cricket’s faceless men
MP
Memories of a surfing legend
Görlitzerstrasse
Bus Route 423
Road to Nowra
Paseo del Prado
14th Street
Ballarat–Colac Road
Eyre–Wylie Highway
The Nation Reviewed Right arrow
Foreign Policy
White-papering the Cracks
A blueprint for the Asian Century?
US politics
A Less Perfect Union
Obama’s next challenge
Lights Out
Solar eclipse in Queensland
ALP
Messages for Gough
Forty years since ‘It’s Time’
Bob Brown
Environmental Flows
How the Franklin was saved
Notes from a Small Town
Students getting into the groove
Spire Dreaming
A Bidjara man in Oxford
Vox Right arrow
Show day
Arts & Letters Right arrow
South Africa
On His Terms
JC Kannemeyer’s ‘JM Coetzee: A Life in Writing’
What the Boom Won’t Leave Behind
Mining literature
Streaming
Spotify
As it Comes
Jacques Audiard’s ‘Rust and Bone’
A Modern Mensch
‘Louie’
Noted Right arrow
‘Butcher Paper Texta Blackboard and Chalk: A Songbook and CD’ by Ruby Hunter & Archie Roach
‘Love Story’ by Florian Habicht (director)
‘The Rainbow Troops’ by Andrea Hirata
December 2012 – January 2013
Issue
Essays
Labor Party The Strategist By Nick Bryant
World War II Lest We Inflate By Mark McKenna
Miles Franklin Free Agent By Peter Conrad
Society On the Nose By Malcolm Knox
MP By Robert Forster
Görlitzerstrasse By Alex Miller
Bus Route 423 By Charlotte Wood
Road to Nowra By Frank Moorhouse
Paseo del Prado By Gail Bell
14th Street By Lally Katz
Literature Ballarat–Colac Road By Robyn Annear
Literature Eyre–Wylie Highway By John Kinsella
The Nation Reviewed
Julia Gillard White-papering the Cracks By Hugh White
Barack Obama A Less Perfect Union By Peter Conrad
Astronomy Lights Out By Ashley Hay
Labor Party Messages for Gough By Michael Gurr
The Greens Environmental Flows By Bob Brown
Education Notes from a Small Town By Chloe Hooper
Spire Dreaming By Jo Lennan
Vox
Show day By Cate Kennedy
Arts & Letters
Literature On His Terms By Alexandra Coghlan
Mining boom What the Boom Won’t Leave Behind By Malcolm Knox
Internet Streaming By Richard Guilliatt
Film As it Comes By Luke Davies
A Modern Mensch By Elmo Keep
Noted
Indigenous Australian Music ‘Butcher Paper Texta Blackboard and Chalk: A Songbook and CD’ by Ruby Hunter & Archie Roach By John van Tiggelen
Film ‘Love Story’ by Florian Habicht (director) By Michael Lucy
‘The Rainbow Troops’ by Andrea Hirata By Ruby J Murray
Encounters
Richard Neville & Charles Sobhraj By Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
Letters to the editor
Gender equality Clare Wright
Jo Wynter and John Hill
Feminism Geoffrey Sidebottom
Julia Gillard Brett Darcy
Julia Gillard Robert Logan
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