February 2014

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Essays

Lives of the magnates

Chloe Hooper

Inside the worlds of Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Nathan Tinkler

Adam Bandt at his election-night party, 7 September 2013. © Paul Jeffers / Fairfax

The future of the Greens

By Guy Rundle

Government or activism?

Japan

Japan, China, Senkaku, Diaoyu

By Linda Jaivin

Why is Australia taking sides in the East China Sea?

The Nation Reviewed

World War I

Lest we go over the top

By Don Watson

How should we remember World War One?

Why climate change defeats our short-term thinking

By Judith Brett

On science, religion, politics and ideology

Five years after Black Saturday

By John van Tiggelen

How we fight fires now

Theatre

Andrew Upton goes solo

By Luke Slattery

It’s a new era for Sydney Theatre Company’s artistic director

Scott Morrison at Shirelive

By Sunil Badami

Presents, prayers and asylum seekers

Medicine

Medicine's mission to Mars

By Karen Hitchcock

Transplants, out-of-body organs and limits to treatment

Arts & Letters

Gavrilo Princip arrested in Sarajevo after assassinating Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 28 June 1914. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Germany

Re-evaluating World War One

By Robyn Annear

Margaret MacMillan’s ‘The War That Ended Peace’, Paul Ham’s ‘1914’ and David Reynolds’ ‘The Long Shadow’

Putting Australia on the map

By Claire Corbett

‘Mapping Our World’ at the National Library of Australia

ASIO photo of Gary Foley with Black Panther Denis Walker. Courtesy of Haydn Keenan

ASIO surveillance in ‘Persons of Interest’

By Mark McKenna

Documentary series charts the history of Australia’s intelligence-gathering operations

Wally De Backer (aka Gotye) with a still from the ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ video. © Mark Gamboni / ACMI

Music videos: a personal history

By Anwen Crawford

From Saturday-morning ‘Rage’ to ACMI’s ‘Spectacle’ exhibition

‘Blue Is the Warmest Colour’ and ‘Nebraska’ film reviews

By Luke Davies

New work from directors Abdellatif Kechiche and Alexander Payne

Noted

Rebecca Mead’s ‘The Road to Middlemarch’

By Fenella Souter

Text; $32.99

Encounters

Cartoon

Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz

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