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Economics of power
The only serious threat to the real interests of the United States can come from a failure to adjust...
Birth of a nation?
IN FEBRUARY 1902 – just thirteen months after the Australian colonies federated to become the world’s newest nation –...
Strangers to the world
COMMENTING ON AUSTRALIA’S response to asylum seekers in the online version of Le Monde in July 2013, one reader...
The collapse of values
THE ARRIVAL OF the MV Tampa in Australian waters in 2001 was misrepresented to the public as a threat...
Barriers to understanding
It’s hard to be literate and numerate without attending school; it’s hard to find work without a basic education;...
The failure of law and order
‘TWO-MINUTE NOODLES!’ Lee is leaning forward on the edge of her sofa, animated. She’d recently visited an old jail-mate...
Stuff
WE GET TO vote just once every few years, but every single day we consume, we buy, we acquire....
A half-formed nation
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLLIE! I thought I’d drop you a line about life, the state of the planet and the future...
Captains don’t always know best
AMONG THE MANY slights and injustices Australia’s most recently deposed prime minister now has time to mull over, the...
Delivering on the grand bargain
IT WAS A lack of recognition and respect for Eddie Mabo’s Torres Strait Islander customs and traditions that drove him to take on the might of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government. Mabo was a Queenslander from a humble background, though his legacy extraordinary and its consequences immeasurable.
Taking credit
IN 2012 I was approached by Egon Zehnder, the world’s most successful privately owned executive-search firm, to write a...
Snow dome
IT LOOKED LIKE beer o’clock in a city pub on a Friday afternoon. Suits, noise, movement. But it wasn’t....
