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American notes
The 1980 US presidential election campaign was characterised by warnings from the Carter White House about the impact of a…
Terror Australis
Wolf Creek 2 marks a sea change in our film industry
On the Contrary
Once upon a time, I liked the boats. I thought the absence of boats to be a lamentable prospect. I…
You’re no John Stuart Mill
On the constitutional preamble and section 18C, the Attorney-General is not off to a good start
An Aussie wolf on Wall Street
The new movie resonates with Eighties London adland, albeit in a less cartoonish fashion
I love my ABC
And I want the public broadcaster to be privatised
On the contrary
Last October, the ABC aired two consecutive episodes of its flagship science programme, Catalyst, which claimed the causal link between…
Our right-wing bogeyman
Step forward Scott Morrison for working up your ideological foes into a collective state of hysteria
Leave plenty to the imagination
Two historical exhibitions on Australia and the US struggle to capture the spirit of the two nations
Lose the Lord’s Prayer
For the sake of the country, the church, and the politicians who pray it
On the contrary
I’ve lost a lot of friends this week. News travels fast and the idea of someone writing a weekly column…
Draconian Barry
With his tough new laws, the NSW Premier is taking the fun out of Sydney nightlife
Rolf and Operation Gumtree
The UK’s favourite Australian: guilty or not guilty?
Uni activists need to get real in the Abbott era
Memo to the National Union of Students: ditch the ideology and represent undergraduates
Tony is soft on crime
The only way to stop aggressive drunks is for the state to become even more aggressive with them
Hubris and humiliation
How to account for the collapse of the English cricket team? Hint: it has little to do with Aussie brilliance
A king hit to common sense
Blame permissive society, not simply booze, for the violence and bloodshed on our streets
The missing milestone
The crossing of the Blue Mountains marked a great moment in our history — too bad we didn’t commemorate it last year
Speccie scoop: Snowden files in full
Stolen intelligence files reveal a bewildering history of clandestine Australian high-tech surveillance operations
In like Flynn
Whatever it takes to play an Australian in film, non-Australians should be welcome
My dream to visit Oz
Much more than cricket fascinates this Englishman about Australia
Where were you during apartheid?
It was the second session of the 27th parliament, 3 March 1970. The House was sitting for the first time…
In memory of Christopher Koch
The Tasmanian conservative was the most important and sophisticated novelist Australia has produced
The comedy of cricket
The game has to stop reinventing itself to survive in a crowded sports market
End of McTernanism
The upshot from the Gonski drama is that Tony Abbott has killed his own inner spin doctor
