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

Why climate change defeats our short-term thinking
On science, religion, politics and ideology
Five years after Black Saturday
How we fight fires now
Medicine
Germany
Margaret MacMillan’s ‘The War That Ended Peace’, Paul Ham’s ‘1914’ and David Reynolds’ ‘The Long Shadow’
ASIO surveillance in ‘Persons of Interest’
Documentary series charts the history of Australia’s intelligence-gathering operations
Music videos: a personal history
From Saturday-morning ‘Rage’ to ACMI’s ‘Spectacle’ exhibition
‘Blue Is the Warmest Colour’ and ‘Nebraska’ film reviews
New work from directors Abdellatif Kechiche and Alexander Payne
Rebecca Mead’s ‘The Road to Middlemarch’
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