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Making nations

IT SEEMS POIGNANTLY appropriate that the web address gallipoli.net.au, which features the logo ‘Gallipoli: The Making of a Nation’,...

By Julianne Schultz

Land, glorious land

IN THE BEGINNING it is about land: enjoying, aggregating, owning, using, preserving, developing and selling land. Land is, and always...

By Julianne Schultz

More than a job

AUSTRALIA WAS ONCE known as the land of the long weekend. It was a snappy catchphrase that, like all...

By Julianne Schultz

The fourth pillar

WESLEY ENOCH IS a remarkable man. He has an enviable ability to cut through: to see the whole picture,...

By Julianne Schultz

Looking east

FOR A NUMBER of years I travelled on a New Zealand passport. It wasn't so much that I identified...

By Julianne Schultz

At the crossroads

THE OLDEST HIGHWAY across the Pacific is perhaps as old as the planet. A jet stream circles the Pacific...

By Lloyd Jones

Stories to live by

OVER the past few years the body politic in Australia has had an exceptionally high temperature. If it were...

By Julianne Schultz

The more things change…

A DECADE AGO the first edition of Griffith REVIEW explored the challenges and contradictions of what we were told...

By Julianne Schultz

The women are present

IT DID NOT take long before posters advertising performance artist Marina Abramovic's show at New York's Museum of Modern...

By Julianne Schultz

Searching for the next big thing

MORE THAN HALF a century ago, Arthur Koestler wrote that much of what you needed to know about a...

By Julianne Schultz

Masters of the universe: How nigh’s the end?

AFTER LISTENING TO the eminent scientist cataloguing the ever-increasing evidence of significant climate change – rising temperatures, rising seas,...

By Julianne Schultz

Reports from the front

THE BATTLE OVER ideas in education is one of the most hard-fought in public life. No other field carries...

By Julianne Schultz