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Brett Evans
Brett Evans is a Sydney-based writer.
National affairs
Dinner with Adam Smith
Brett Evans
22 February 2019
Conflict of interest allegations have turned an unsought spotlight on the Big Four consulting firms
National affairs
Secret Coalition business
Brett Evans
27 August 2018
Will we ever know what Scott Morrison promised Michael McCormack?
Books & arts
The great accounting
Brett Evans
13 July 2018
Books
| Are the Big Four auditing companies facing their moment of truth?
Books & arts
Parallel lives
Brett Evans
11 April 2018
Books
| The former academic and the pugnacious ex-soldier both tell compelling stories about life before politics
National affairs
Standing by your man
Brett Evans
16 February 2018
Barnaby Joyce isn’t the only political figure in a spot of personal bother
National affairs
The fall and rise of One Nation?
Brett Evans
15 November 2017
Eleven MPs elected to Queensland parliament in 1998, and then the cracks began appearing. Will it happen again?
National affairs
High-tech, low growth
Brett Evans
25 July 2017
Are the Big Four stifling competition and inhibiting growth? Pro-business commentators have joined the push to dilute their power
Books & arts
Hundred-year lives
Brett Evans
23 March 2017
Books
| Middle age is expanding, which is mostly good news
From the archive
Once were a weird mob
Brett Evans
11 November 2016
How one of Britain’s greatest directors transferred John O’Grady’s sharply observed comic novel to the screen
Books & arts
Passion play at Kardinia Park
Brett Evans
26 October 2016
Books
| James Button’s tale of a football club made good has all the elements of classical drama
Books & arts
Judge by the hands, not by the eyes
Brett Evans
24 June 2016
Books
| Maurizio Viroli wants us to take a fresh look at the political philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli, writes
Brett Evans
Essays & reportage
For the love of money
Brett Evans
11 February 2016
Fifty years ago, Australia’s currency went decimal. But the long-awaited transition wasn’t without its problems, writes
Brett Evans
Books & arts
He’s not the Messiah…
Brett Evans
11 December 2015
Books
| Paddy Manning’s biography of Malcolm Turnbull reveals a man in a blazing hurry, writes
Brett Evans
Books & arts
The biggest stage
Brett Evans
12 November 2015
Books
|
Brett Evans
follows Peter Garrett from West Pymble to Canberra, via French’s in Oxford Street
Essays & reportage
On board the sushi train
Brett Evans
13 October 2015
Robotics meets fish farming in an innovative new technique being developed by Australian scientist Neil Sims, writes
Brett Evans
Essays & reportage
The battle for Wentworth
Brett Evans
19 September 2015
Malcolm Turnbull’s political trajectory hasn’t always been smooth. In the first week of his attempt to take on the sitting member at the 2004 election, he seemed to be in a…
National affairs
Love among the water hazards
Brett Evans
13 August 2015
Julia Gillard drew adulation at the Byron Bay Writers Festival, writes
Brett Evans
. It was another reminder of questions still hanging over the Labor Party
Essays & reportage
Dog eat cat: the push to rewild Australia
Brett Evans
16 July 2015
As the Threatened Species Summit opens in Melbourne,
Brett Evans
profiles a scientist film-maker who says “rewilding” is the best way to battle the invasive…
Books & arts
The middle man
Brett Evans
23 April 2015
Books
| Tony Windsor made an indelible mark on federal politics, writes
Brett Evans
. And he might be considering a comeback
Books & arts
“We were hungry to tell stories, and we all sort of grew together”
Brett Evans
10 November 2014
Brett Evans
talks to award-winning Indigenous screenwriter Steven McGregor
Books & arts
What makes them run?
Brett Evans
5 September 2014
Three new political biographies reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the genre
National affairs
The winter of Senator Faulkner’s discontent
Brett Evans
29 July 2014
Tradition triumphed once again at the weekend’s state Labor Party conference in Sydney, writes
Brett Evans
.
Essays & reportage
The insurgent from Indi
Brett Evans
30 April 2014
Inside Story
catches up with federal parliament’s fledgling independent MP
Books & arts
Red in tooth and claw
Brett Evans
21 February 2014
Politics is hard and democracy is messy.
Brett Evans
reviews two new books that help explain why it doesn’t all end in disaster
Books & arts
The revolutionary box
Brett Evans
2 December 2013
It’s not just sweatshop labour that keeps down the price of the stuff we buy, writes
Brett Evans
Books & arts
The river in the sky
Brett Evans
5 September 2013
Kerry O’Brien’s interview with Clive James was about as good as it gets
Books & arts
Tricks of the trade
Brett Evans
18 April 2013
Rome’s greatest orator has a message for the current generation of political leaders, says
Brett Evans
Books & arts
How did Cool Denmark become so hot?
Brett Evans
19 March 2013
Brett Evans
looks at how one Nordic country wields “soft power”
Books & arts
Father and sons
Brett Evans
2 October 2012
Books
| The political and the personal illuminate each other in James Button’s fine account of a year in Canberra
National affairs
How to win an election
Brett Evans
5 June 2012
A timeless guide for politicians with a sting in the tail
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