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Summer season
Articles from
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Summer season
Fuel’s paradise
Jennifer Doggett
24 September 2020
Australia lags by more than a decade in tackling the health effects of low-quality petrol
Summer season
The life and (possible) death of Dorothy Dix
Brett Evans
24 August 2020
Even MPs are getting worried about the quality of question time
Summer season
Who is Perry Mason?
Jane Goodall
17 July 2020
Television
| HBO’s prequel sets the legendary lawyer off on a long road
Summer season
Are we there yet?
Andrew Ford
3 July 2020
Music
| Bob Dylan’s new album settles the debate triggered by his Nobel Prize
Summer season
The dictatorship of coffee
Brett Evans
23 June 2020
Books
| We’re not the only ones in the grip of this addictive beverage
Summer season
When private schools go public
Chris Bonnor and Rachel Wilson with Paul Kidson and Tom Greenwell
16 March 2020
No longer can non-government schools be said to be saving taxpayer dollars
Summer season
Homeland insecurities
Jane Goodall
28 February 2020
Television
• At heart,
Homeland
is a drama of loyalty and betrayal
Summer season
From comedy to drama in a blink
Julie Rigg
18 February 2020
Cinema
| Our reviewer recalls her first meeting with the director of
Parasite
Summer season
Savage Summer
Tom Griffiths
8 January 2020
The Australian bushfire has its own fine-grained local languages
Summer season
“But no one remembers her!”
Cathy Perkins
6 November 2019
Literary history hasn’t always been kind to poet, novelist and journalist Zora Cross
Summer season
Give our regards to Broadway
Andrew Ford
18 October 2019
Urban romance was the hallmark of a great songwriting era
Summer season
Is this the end of meritocracy?
Frank Bongiorno
10 August 2017
Birth and luck clearly play an enormous role in our lives. So why does the idea of a meritocracy maintain its grip?
Books & arts
In praise of Help!
Andrew Ford
4 August 2015
Music
| Released fifty years ago, this often-overlooked Beatles album is well worth returning to, says
Andrew Ford
Summer season
War stories
Jeannine Baker
15 April 2015
Women reporters showed they could report alongside men during the second world war
Summer season
After the fall
Janna Thompson
12 August 2014
Does Christianity’s “original sin” help us understand Western culture in the twenty-first century?
Summer season
From ubiquitous to obsolete
Shakira Hussein
30 March 2011
Slavery, foot-binding and duelling have lost their status as “honourable,” but will some other practices prove harder to reverse?
Summer season
The strange career of the Australian conscience
Dean Ashenden
10 June 2010
The remarkable collaboration of anthropologists Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen, “bearers, shapers and captives of the Australian conscience”