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| Monday 26 October 2009 |
The calm before the immigration storm?
The lack of hysteria at a new influx of refugee boats to Australia has disappointed pro- and anti-refugee groups alike.
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| Monday 12 October 2009 |
Jackson Jive: the return of Aussie racism?
Australia’s bizarre TV ‘black face’ scandal springs more from the politics of identity than old-fashioned racism.
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| Monday 21 September 2009 |
Kristol’s conservatism: swansong of the West?
Irving Kristol’s neoconservative legacy was to lay the foundation for the super-patriot identity politics of George W Bush.
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| Friday 27 February 2009 |
An historian’s love/hate relationship with Uncle Joe
Simon Sebag Montefiore officially loathes the subject of his book, Joseph Stalin. Yet secretly, he also seems to find him – and the early revolutionary events he was involved in – entrancing and magnetic.
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| Tuesday 10 February 2009 |
Burning questions about the bushfires
Guy Rundle asks if the fraying and isolation of communities in Victoria worsened the impact of the ferocious flames.
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| Wednesday 21 January 2009 |
The ‘messiah’ and the art of the possible
Guy Rundle reports on the party in Washington and how Obama’s speech marked a positive break with America’s recent past.
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| Friday 9 January 2009 |
Sam Adams: the first professional revolutionary
It’s high time we reclaimed and celebrated this rabble-rouser of the first order, without whom the American Revolution might not have occurred.
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| Monday 29 December 2008 |
Sam Adams: the first professional revolutionary
It’s high time we reclaimed and celebrated this gleeful scheming propagandist and rabble-rouser of the first order, without whom the American Revolution might not have occurred.
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| Thursday 18 December 2008 |
Baz Luhrmann’s new ‘myth of Australia’
In presenting the artist and aborigines as natural aristocrats who rise above ‘common cruelty’, Australia turns history into a moral fable.
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| Wednesday 10 December 2008 |
Tear down Australia’s Great Firewall Reef
Kevin Rudd’s Labor government is pushing through a mandatory internet filtering system that rivals China’s severe online censorship.
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| Wednesday 12 November 2008 |
Puppydog politics and the end of left and right
Obama’s public discussion of the First Pet reveals his true strategy: to win America over by making politics boring.
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| Wednesday 5 November 2008 |
‘Hit the road, Jack’
Guy Rundle reports from outside the White House on the generous spirit of relief at the Republicans’ defeat.
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| Friday 31 October 2008 |
The McCainiac let loose in Johnstown
Guy Rundle reports from Pennsylvania, a state divided by the culture wars which McCain and Palin are desperate to win.
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| Wednesday 1 October 2008 |
Kicking consumers
The Bailout Fallout: Drinking their one-dollar coffees, the patrons of a DC diner refused to believe that they’re to blame for the financial crisis.
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| Monday 1 September 2008 |
The Selection of Sarah: exciting or terrifying?
Guy Rundle reports from St Paul on the buzz about McCain’s promotion of creationist, gun-owner Sarah Palin.
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| Wednesday 27 August 2008 |
Obama’s Democrats: as Conventional as ever
Guy Rundle reports from Denver on why the party is ignoring the working class: anything else would mean backing up the rhetoric with real change.
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| Friday 27 June 2008 |
The myth of the ‘good war’ goes up in smoke
Nicholson Baker's historical montage has got many reviewers spitting blood, yet all he has done is remind us that the motives and behaviour of the Allies in the Second World War were often far from decent.
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| Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
How Hillary could split the Democrats in two
Clinton’s anti-elitist rhetoric won’t help her become president. But it could make Obama’s defeat at the hands of McCain more likely.
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| Friday 25 April 2008 |
Fascism: it ain’t what it used to be
Jonah Goldberg makes some salient points about the left’s authoritarian tendencies today — but his use of the ‘f-word’ is no more convincing than when it was used by Sixties dropouts.
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| Wednesday 16 April 2008 |
The faulty ‘2020’ vision of Australian liberals
The ‘national conversation’ organised by Kevin Rudd shows that Australian left-liberals have more faith in the state than the people.
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