March 2013

March 2013

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Fat City

Karen Hitchcock

What can stop obesity?

Fat City
Mural at Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. © Dean Sewell / Oculi
Ian Macdonald. © John Grainger / Newspix

Mate of the Union

By Mark Aarons

How to corrupt a party

‘Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott’ by David Marr, Black Inc, 256pp; $19.95

Universities

Political Animal

By David Marr

The Making of Tony Abbott

Quarterly Essay 49, ‘Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future’ by Mark Latham, Black Inc, 101pp; $19.95

Tony Abbott

The Rise of the New Right

By Mark Latham

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Liberal Party

A taxing year

By Judith Brett

Australia’s policy drought

L–R: Penny Wong, Tanya Plibersek, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kate Lundy, Kate Ellis, Julie Collins. © Tim Bauer

Indigenous rights

Thinking Backwards

By John van Tiggelen

Aboriginal violence and its interpreters

Quicksilver

By Michaela McGuire

Nate Silver’s poker face

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Mawson’s expedition. Photo by Frank Hurley. Courtesy of the State Library of NSW.

From Cecil, with Loathing

By David Day

‘Madigan’s Account: The Mawson Expedition’

‘The Return to Nazareth from Egypt’ (1734), Francesco Conti

Literature

To Hell with Self-help

By Craig Sherborne

JM Coetzee’s ‘The Childhood of Jesus’

The Bamiyan valley, after the destruction of the famed Buddha statues. © Duncan Dalzel-Job

A Few Brave Men

By Christopher Kremmer

‘Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures’

© Jimmy King

Falling Back to Earth

By Robert Forster

David Bowie’s ‘The Next Day’

Love in the Time of Ruin

Love in the Time of Ruin

By Luke Davies

Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’

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Anish Kapoor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Until 1 April

Anish Kapoor

By Patrick Hartigan

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

‘Earthmasters’ by Clive Hamilton, Allen and Unwin; $24.99
‘All the Way’, Marie Darrieussecq (trans. Penny Hueston), Text Publishing; $29.99
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Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
Words: Shane Maloney | Illustration: Chris Grosz
March 2013