7 October 2023: shocking yes, surprising no
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Bob Brown's latest book is a breath of fresh air
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Magical alchemy: Arundhati Roy’s compelling memoir illuminates a ‘restless, unruly’ life
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14 September 2025
Gertrude Stein got famous lampooning celebrity culture – but not everyone got the joke
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13 September 2025
'Go for it!': Kevin O'Brien's Long Tan
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28 August 2025
The West’s long struggle against genocide prevention: Obliteration and complicity
Dr. Steinbock’s highly topical new book The Obliteration Doctrine is about the genocide in Gaza, the West’s complicity and long struggle against genocide prevention. In this Q&A with Dr. Steinbock, we will focus on just a few themes of the his highly topical new book.
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Restaurant reviews benefit restaurants
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4 August 2025
Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty
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The fanatic’s gaze: Louis Theroux and the West Bank settlers
He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched.
13 June 2025
Review: Perfect Victims
Mohammed El-Kurd is a poet, writer, journalist and organiser from Jerusalem in occupied Palestine.
12 June 2025
Hugh White and our post-American future
In his new Quarterly Essay, Hard New World, Hugh White delivers a devastating attack on Australia’s current defence policies.
6 March 2025
Reading al Nakba
The arrogance of early Victorian colonial settlement seems lost to amnesia. Maps of the time show the world as if diseased by a sprawling red virus – the British Empire. With the reach of the red went a blind and over-weening attitude of entitlement, a dictation of what would and would not be. Indigenous people were not engaged or consulted about what would decide their fate – there were a few significant exceptions to that tendency, including T.E Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia, also known as Ned.
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