The problem, as most Australians see it, is that Gillard isn’t sure which corner to turn until someone hands her the directions. The image of Gillard as a fumbling go-between is firmly set.
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This essay was first published in Quadrant, April 2007, and is republished to celebrate Barzun’s 104th birthday.
The words Harry Jenkins spoke as he offered his resignation to the parliament-assembled said one thing— the pictures of him saying them, suggested something entirely different.
You can never keep the Greens happy, short of converting Australia into a defenceless, impoverished, wind and solar powered, bicycle-friendly, forested, backwater, albeit criss-crossed with high-speed rail.
Let me recommend this book at the highest level I can recommend any book.
The opposition should be pleased with the preferred prime minister poll. And Tony Abbott is right to ignore the theologians at The Australian.
The global financial plunge has highlighted the folly of any nation taking action which harms its own comparative economic advantage.
According to José Manuel Barroso, it’s Götterdämmerung all over again. A Eurozone meltdown will send the continent into a 1930s depression, with all the historical imputations of rampant nationalism run amok.
Ssssh: “Listening respectfully to the ideas and feedback provided by Indigenous staff members and not interrupting.”
Some of the texts published in Quadrant and Quadrant Online dealing with the White Aborigines Trial.
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