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October 2013 Volume LVII, No. 10
Hal Colebatch: Inside an Outsider
A Contender for Australia’s Worst Law
The unions’ war on Australia
Looking Squarely at “Gay Marriage”
I Can Call Spirits
Three poems
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Australia and Australian writing is poorer today for the death of Hal G.P. Colebatch, author of history, fiction and poetry, polymath, lawyer and winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award. In his honour and memory, we today republish Tony Thomas' 2013 profile of his fellow West Australian
September 10, 2019
21 mins
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The objective was to foil illegal Third World logging. The result is higher costs for businesses and consumers, increased building costs and less-competitive domestic timber producers
October 30, 2013
16 mins
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As Japanese forces attacked Milne Bay, watersiders went on strike to prevent munitions being loaded. Not all enemies were beyond our shores
October 27, 2013
7 mins
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In what Margaret Whitlam would have called the “hoo-hah” […]
October 1, 2013
8 mins
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For the last thirty years or more, film archives […]
October 1, 2013
11 mins
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Dad, this is none of your business! You never […]
October 1, 2013
1 mins
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Visits with My Wicked Charmer Dad My wicked […]
October 1, 2013
1 mins
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Air Disaster Canberra: The Plane Crash That Destroyed a […]
October 1, 2013
5 mins
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The withdrawal of Western combat forces from Afghanistan in 2014, […]
October 1, 2013
30 mins
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I made my first visit to Israel in November […]
October 1, 2013
16 mins
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A History of Silence: A Memoir by Lloyd Jones Text, […]
October 1, 2013
6 mins
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Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy by Michael Pembrok […]
October 1, 2013
10 mins
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum […]
October 1, 2013
14 mins
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Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes featured in articles […]
October 1, 2013
17 mins
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Irony is unstoppable. A swish. A whack. Chop goes […]
October 1, 2013
4 mins
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Red velvet cabbages Red velvet cabbages flop heavy-scented on […]
October 1, 2013
1 mins
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It is an honour, on behalf of our staff […]
October 1, 2013
9 mins
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Make it Merely Obligatory Sir: Refreshing to read the reasoned […]
October 1, 2013
5 mins
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Probably all the readers of these lines, whether they […]
October 1, 2013
22 mins
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The 100 Days: Claiming Back New Zealand by Amy Brooke […]
October 1, 2013
5 mins
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Montenegro kicked off the Balkan Wars, and la bande […]
October 1, 2013
1 mins
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It is half past ten on Saturday night and […]
October 1, 2013
22 mins
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Sydney Anglicanism: An Apology by Michael P. Jensen Wipf & […]
October 1, 2013
15 mins
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The motel was close to Los Angeles Airport and […]
October 1, 2013
23 mins
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum […]
October 1, 2013
11 mins
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America […]
October 1, 2013
12 mins
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Erich Fromm was out. Max Horkheimer, the director of […]
October 1, 2013
27 mins
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I was standing alone pretending to be interested in […]
October 1, 2013
6 mins
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Athenæum Club Melbourne: A New History of the Early […]
October 1, 2013
7 mins
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Context is always essential for understanding, and so it is […]
October 1, 2013
30 mins
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You will never hear a politician explaining what is wrong with “direct democracy”—they just hope the ideas don’t catch on
October 1, 2013
9 mins
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Australia is the first nation in modern history to secure […]
October 1, 2013
26 mins
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Incineration I reckon they’ll be sorry, historians and […]
October 1, 2013
1 mins
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♦Rupert played at the Arts Centre Melbourne Playhouse from […]
October 1, 2013
12 mins
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About twenty years ago I took a phone call […]
October 1, 2013
6 mins
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But I was glad I had recorded for him […]
October 1, 2013
11 mins
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School pick-up, winter The young mothers stand around […]
October 1, 2013
1 mins
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W. Macmahon Ball: Politics for the People by Ai […]
October 1, 2013
11 mins
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This year marks the seventieth anniversary of Simone Weil’s […]
October 1, 2013
19 mins
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Gentlemen & Players: The Death of Amateurism in Cricket […]
October 1, 2013
16 mins
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Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography by Corrado Vivanti Princeton […]
October 1, 2013
28 mins
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On Hearing “Sail Along Silvery Moon” “Sail Along […]
October 1, 2013
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On my first day as a volunteer with Meals […]
October 1, 2013
16 mins