Just as a real-world poll was about to paint Julia Gillard as ballot-box poison, the failing publisher's Daily Life online site rode to the Prime Minister's rescue with the results of its own, er, survey. Surprise! Surprise! The lady in the The Lodge is Australia's sweetheart
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Dorothy Parker called her canary Onan because it cast its seed upon the ground. As Mungo MacCallum was given to reminding readers of the long-defunct Nation Review, no one ever had to sweep up after The Age's former economics writer
'Tis the season to hit the road -- or, quite possibly, those trees beside the runway if you happen to be flying in and around Burma. A veteran traveller recalls the peculiar perils
Given the worshipful treatment Media Report's Richard Aedy accorded Anne Summers' recent appeal for funds to support her new publishing venture, Quadrant editors will be watching the letterbox for their invitation to do likewise
This a true story, perhaps soon to be a major movie starring Penelope Cruz as the tormented Margaret, legally yoked to the brutish and unscrupulous Tony Thomas (Russell Crowe and Eric Bana are vying for the role)
There is much to be said about the joys of children, but words are apt to fail any parent marooned without a car key in an airport's tow-away zone. Well, not all words...
Australia's Communists firmly believed the Menzies government had plans to lock up their leaders in the event of hostilities with Russia or China. They were wrong about that. Operation Alien envisioned not just a few Reds behinds barbed wire but thousands
At a distance of decades, the very idea of a secret army standing ready to thwart a Communist takeover of Australia seems laughable. In the years after WWII, however, the plots and paranoia came thick and fast
While Australian communists watched ASIO, the intelligence agency repaid the favour with a program of surveillance and penetration so thorough its unwitting moles sometimes informed on each other
Moles, sleepers, double agents, clandestine printing presses, agents of influence in newsrooms and police squads -- the war between the comrades and intelligence agencies had it all, except desk drawers
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