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      Early childhood economics
    
    
      Amanda Walsh 
    
    
      10 August 2021    
    
      Has business changed the culture of childcare?
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Why not appreciate a Bartók… and a Parry?
    
    
      Andrew Ford 
    
    
      10 August 2021    
    
      Gerald Finzi’s letters illuminate a time, a place and a composer’s mind
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      First, learn the language
    
    
      Martha Macintyre 
    
    
      8 August 2021    
    
      Gillian Tett, the woman who predicted the global financial crisis, uses anthropological tools to probe how business works
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Have I been excommunicated?
    
    
      Frank Bongiorno 
    
    
      7 August 2021    
    
      How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The trouble with history
    
    
      Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe 
    
    
      6 August 2021    
    
      The authors of Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate respond to Bill Gammage’s “The Great Divide”
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      Beyond the headlines and hashtags
    
    
      Zora Simic 
    
    
      6 August 2021    
    
      Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Ghosts in the machine
    
    
      Ellen Broad 
    
    
      5 August 2021    
    
      A computer scientist takes on artificial-intelligence boosters. But does he dig deep enough?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Dracula unlimited
    
    
      Jane Goodall 
    
    
      30 July 2021    
    
      Would Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s latest series benefit from a little more reality?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The good life
    
    
      Janna Thompson 
    
    
      28 July 2021    
    
      “I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends,” observed philosopher David Hume, before dragging himself back to his desk
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      That elusive je ne sais quoi
    
    
      Alexis Bergantz 
    
    
      25 July 2021    
    
      Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      Sea of islands
    
    
      Alison Bashford 
    
    
      16 July 2021    
    
      Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas is a skilled and knowledgeable guide to Pacific voyaging
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      A kind of therapy
    
    
      Andrew Ford 
    
    
      15 July 2021    
    
      For singer-songwriter Martha Marlow, “your life experiences become your palette”
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Winners take all
    
    
      Jock Given 
    
    
      13 July 2021    
    
      Rules or no rules? The Tech Giants have made some of their own.
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      What’s not to like?
    
    
      Jane Goodall 
    
    
      9 July 2021    
    
      With just one blind spot, Annabel Crabb is at her best in the ABC’s Ms Represented
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Funny things happened on the way to the Forum
    
    
      Brett Evans 
    
    
      9 July 2021    
    
      Even the Romans used jokes to drive home their point, though they tend to lose something in the translation
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      A Liberal’s case for the Voice to Parliament
    
    
      Tim Rowse 
    
    
      9 July 2021    
    
      Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Being David Gulpilil
    
    
      Brian McFarlane 
    
    
      7 July 2021    
    
      Molly Reynolds has documented a remarkable half-century career
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Who did he think he was?
    
    
      Patrick Mullins 
    
    
      7 July 2021    
    
      Gideon Haigh’s new book throws fresh light on the remarkable H.V. Evatt
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Northern light on Australia’s future
    
    
      Ian McAuley 
    
    
      2 July 2021    
    
      The Nordic countries show how economies can be run differently
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The myth of merit
    
    
      Peter Mares 
    
    
      25 June 2021    
    
      Our faith in meritocracy is stopping us from thinking clearly about inequality
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      Who are we?
    
    
      Jane Goodall 
    
    
      24 June 2021    
    
      It’s a question that might best be approached obliquely
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Sydney’s modernist wave
    
    
      Meg Brayshaw 
    
    
      18 June 2021    
    
      Linked by its famous waterway, the city’s interwar fiction proved remarkably prescient
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The teller and the tale
    
    
      Tim Rowse 
    
    
      16 June 2021    
    
      What is Indigenous knowledge and who has it? Tim Rowse reviews Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe’s critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      On seduction, brainwashing and being converted
    
    
      Nick Haslam 
    
    
      15 June 2021    
    
      A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      If not, try singing it
    
    
      Zora Simic 
    
    
      11 June 2021    
    
      Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      Toora loo rye ay
    
    
      Andrew Ford 
    
    
      8 June 2021    
    
      Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s Wakefield
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Gloves off
    
    
      Carolyn Collins 
    
    
      5 June 2021    
    
      Beguiled by familiar photos, have we forgotten one of the first anti–Vietnam war groups?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Menzies the puritan idealist
    
    
      Ian Hancock 
    
    
      4 June 2021    
    
      Conservative or liberal? A new book about the former prime minister rejects the old binary in favour of two other strands of thought
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Holding on
    
    
      Brian McFarlane 
    
    
      3 June 2021    
    
      Three films tackle dementia is very different ways
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Location, location, location
    
    
      Jane Goodall 
    
    
      1 June 2021    
    
      Mare of Easttown shines among a new crop of visually arresting crime series
    
  
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