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OUTSIDE MY LOCAL shopping centre I watched two young men, in the twilight of their secondary school years, walk...

By Daniel Donahoo

MY FIRST THOUGHTS on family politics for this essay came to me in the middle of a crowd of...

By Tom Morton

SATIRE REACHES THE pinnacle of success when it becomes the thing being satirised. Such is the achievement of Kath &...

By Simon Caterson

THE US TELEVISION show Outback Jack is a strange twist on the modern obsession with "reality". Jack, a rustic Aussie bloke...

By Daniel Flitton

AFTER A DIVERSION in a genre of grassroots social theorising with his work Identitées Meurtrières, Amin Maalouf comes back...

By Ghassan Hage

IN 1929, ANTHONY Martin Fernando, an Aborigine, appeared at the Old Bailey in London charged with attempted assault. He...

By Fiona Paisley

IN THE LATE 19th century, a radical British journalist and his American wife set off from Sydney Harbour, sailing...

By Daniel Flitton

JOE ESTERHAUS IS the Hollywood screenwriter who wrote Basic Instinct and became the highest-paid scriptwriter in history. He is...

By Peter Craven

FOUR YEARS AGO, George W. Bush campaigned as the "everyman President" who would "restore" honour and integrity to the...

AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTS OF Gallipoli concentrate on the fighting there and the effects on civilian life back home. The Turkish...

THE RACE TO map the human genome is over. While this has the potential, in time, to transform medical...

By Wendy Lipworth

SCIENTIFICALLY ADVANCED NATIONS seem on the verge of a new situation in which the traditional goals of doctors and...

By Sherwin B Nuland