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AUSTRALIA'S SYSTEM OF government has passed its use-by date in too many respects. The federal arrangements are dysfunctional, ministerial...

By George Williams

Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows fall? Why should my heart be lonely, and long for...

By Hugh Mackay

WHAT DOES AUSTRALIA look like? In the 1950s a school-aged Hilary McPhee, in an essay on what Australia would...

By Chris Wallace

I'M LYING PROPPED up on one elbow at Kyeemagh beach, looking out over Botany Bay. I love this utterly...

By Tom Morton

ST ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL, the symbolic heart of the Sydney Anglican Diocese, has an enviable location in the centre of...

By Muriel Porter

ON THE VARNISHED surface of the table at which I sit to write someone has scored the three quarter...

By Kim Mahood

Selected for Best Australian Political Writing 2009LIKE ALL GREAT speeches, the Tenterfield Oration delivered on October 24, 1889 –...

By Geoff Gallop

‘A WRITER,' DECLARED the novelist Thomas Mann, ‘is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other...

By Peter Cochrane

THE ROAD TO the Queensland-New South Wales border turns through former dairy farms and tropical fruit plantations, many now...

By Tim Chandler

We are the same people sprung from the same race. We bear allegiance to the same throne. Our ideas,...

By AJ Brown

THERE ARE THOSE who argue that the only way to improve the performance of government in Australia is the...

By Peter Beattie

EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ritika is a first-generation Indian Australian who lives in Sydney's west. Asked about her views on Australia, she...

By Ien Ang