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Books & arts
Books & arts
Forgotten voices
Greg Lehman
21 December 2015
Books
| Two books grapple in different ways with the evidence of Tasmanian Aboriginal history, writes
Greg Lehman
Books & arts
Anchors away
Jane Goodall
17 December 2015
Television
| News anchors are taking on a life of their own, writes
Jane Goodall
. But are we losing something in the process?
Books & arts
The education of Dr K.
Graeme Dobell
17 December 2015
Books
|
Graeme Dobell
reviews an admirer’s biography of the controversial scholar-strategist
Books & arts
Newsfront revisited
Sylvia Lawson
15 December 2015
Cinema
| Philip Noyce’s 1978 feature was an antidote to the tasteful costume dramas of the reviving Australian film industry, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Books & arts
No surrender
Brian McFarlane
15 December 2015
Cinema
|
Suffragette
seems doubly overdue, writes
Brian McFarlane
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
Code-breakers
Carolyn Holbrook
10 December 2015
Books
| Australian women have been reporting from war zones since the beginning of the twentieth century, and sometimes that’s meant stepping over the line
Books & arts
Listening to the zeitgeist
Andrew Ford
8 December 2015
How important to music is time and place?
Books & arts
A touch of amnesia
Paddy Gourley
1 December 2015
Books
| Laura Tingle is right to say that government must become better at remembering, writes
Paddy Gourley
, but her argument has memory lapses of its own
Books & arts
Urban renewal: a user’s guide
Jennifer Kent
1 December 2015
Books
| The challenge for Australian cities is to introduce fluidity into a landscape often set in concrete, writes
Jennifer Kent
Books & arts
The enemy within
Jane Goodall
28 November 2015
Television
| Free-to-air TV can still shift public debate, writes
Jane Goodall.
But can it break free of its own conventions?
Books & arts
Close quarters
Susan Lever
23 November 2015
Books
| Napoleon’s defeat and exile reverberated as far as Australia, writes
Susan Lever
. Two new books piece together his years on St Helena
Books & arts
The rise of the antibiotic reformers
Ben Wade
19 November 2015
Books
| Through agitation, confrontation, persuasion and legislation a group of reformers helped shape today’s medical landscape, writes
Ben Wade
Books & arts
The enigma of Keith Murdoch
Michael Cannon
18 November 2015
A new biography reveals a complex and contentious figure
Books & arts
Sound and vision
Richard Johnstone
17 November 2015
Photography
| Tony Mott didn’t so much fall into photography as throw himself into it, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
Unleashed
Jane Goodall
13 November 2015
Television
| What kind of species are we? A night in front of the TV had some answers, writes
Jane Goodall
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
Books & arts
Some of the things we weren’t meant to know about the Dismissal
Paul Rodan
10 November 2015
Books
| The archives continue to reveal more about the events of late 1975, writes
Paul Rodan.
Now it’s time for the remaining embargoes to be lifted
Books & arts
Leaning back
Sophie Black
10 November 2015
Books
| What is valuable? What is important? What is right? What is natural? Anne-Marie Slaughter takes on the big issues confronting working women and men, writes
Sophie Black
Books & arts
Scaling King Lear
Brian McFarlane
5 November 2015
Books
| An enormous number of talented actors and directors have taken on this most difficult of theatrical challenges, writes
Brian McFarlane
, and a new book…
Books & arts
Anthems of late capitalism
Andrew Ford
27 October 2015
Much of the James Bond style comes down to the music
Books & arts
Drama is elsewhere
Jane Goodall
27 October 2015
Television
|
Jane Goodall
watches
The
Beautiful Lie
,
Sherlock
,
Fargo
and
Homeland
Books & arts
The knowledge factories
Simon Marginson
27 October 2015
Books
| Two opposing views of the university run through Hannah Forsyth’s historically based account, writes
Simon Marginson
Books & arts
Restless continents throbbing and surging
Graeme Dobell
20 October 2015
Books
| Even if the Asian century is peaceful that doesn’t mean it will be harmonious, writes
Graeme Dobell
Books & arts
The stylish portraits of May and Mina Moore
Anne Maxwell
12 October 2015
Two NZ-born photographers created a remarkable body of work in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century
Books & arts
Serious about singing
Andrew Ford
6 October 2015
Music
| Take singing seriously and you're on your way to solving the problem of music education, writes
Andrew Ford
Books & arts
Crusader or conspirator?
Bruce Duncan
24 September 2015
Books
|
Bruce Duncan
reviews Gerard Henderson’s biography of B.A. Santamaria
Books & arts
The grilling season
Jane Goodall
23 September 2015
Television
| Monday night’s ABC interviews showed how TV can be dangerous for politicians in unexpected ways, writes
Jane Goodall
Books & arts
The congenial candidate
Norman Abjorensen
21 September 2015
Books
| Can Bill Shorten sell an unexciting message?
Norman Abjorensen
reviews David Marr’s new Quarterly Essay
Books & arts
China’s continental dreams
Graeme Smith
18 September 2015
Books
|
Graeme Smith
compares Howard French’s vivid account of China in Africa with his own research among Chinese migrants in the Pacific
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