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Essays & reportage
Essays & reportage
The shattered silence
Sylvia Lawson
6 January 2009
We are constantly delivered a double miracle: Aboriginal survival, and the Aboriginal will to forgive us all and share it, writes
Sylvia Lawson
Essays & reportage
Luhrmann, us, and them
Dean Ashenden
18 December 2008
Two films made sixty years apart are a reminder of how hard it is to tell the story of Australia, writes
Dean Ashenden
Essays & reportage
“We are diverse, there’s no doubt about that… It’s one of the great strengths but also great challenges of the Liberal Party”
Norman Abjorensen
10 December 2008
Liberal senator Marise Payne profiled
Essays & reportage
The diaspora fights back
James Panichi
4 December 2008
Rugby star David Campese, Victorian Labor MP Carlo Carli and Argentinean millionaire Luigi Pallaro (pictured) all took a keen interest in Italy’s experiment in democracy. But it…
Essays & reportage
The Legend turns fifty
David Andrew Roberts
27 November 2008
Still in print after five decades, Russel Ward’s
The Australian Legend
has survived its critics, writes
David Andrew Roberts
Essays & reportage
Solar policy trapped in the state shadowlands
Peter Mares
27 November 2008
All sides of politics agree that a German-style national feed-in tariff to encourage rooftop solar power makes sense. But Christine Milne’s bill to create the tariff is…
Essays & reportage
Tuvalunacy, or the real thing?
David Corlett
27 November 2008
The link between climate change and migration is more complex than it might seem, writes
David Corlett
in this extract from his new book
Essays & reportage
Charter of frights
Jeremy Gans
10 November 2008
Has fear of upsetting the public caused Victoria’s new human rights charter to lose its way? It’s a question with national implications, writes
Jeremy Gans
Essays & reportage
Gone bush
Chris Bonnor
27 October 2008
Why are some rural government schools doing so well? Because they reflect the old idea that schools should serve all the students in their community, writes
Chris Bonnor
Essays & reportage
Text, text, text
Richard Johnstone
23 October 2008
Is the energy, liveliness and to-the-pointness of text-messaging already history, asks
Richard Johnstone
Essays & reportage
10 June 1931
Erik Eklund
20 October 2008
Never again? The Great Depression changed a generation, writes
Erik Eklund
, but can we be sure that all the lessons were learnt?
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