Articles Archive

Australia by numbers

IT WAS AN embarrassing moment, probably the most embarrassing moment experienced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this century....

By David Dale

Fantasy, paranoia, enthusiasm and reality

The peaceful revolution that swept away Communist rule in Czechoslovakia six months ago was engineered by leaders of the...

By Paul Monk

White guilt, victimhood and the quest for a radical centre

Selected for Best Australian Essays 2010Selected for Best Australian Political Writing 2009Shortlisted, 2007 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, The Alfred...

By Noel Pearson

A school reunion

CITIES ARE SOCIALLY stratified. The nobs live where the views are best. The workers live in the valleys and...

By Bruce Elder

Castroism dies – Che lives!

Forty years ago, on 11 April 1967, The Times of London sensationally drew the attention of the world to Bolivia, one...

By Murray Sayle (1926–2010)

Surrendering nationalism

TEN YEARS AGO, most Australians quietly cringed when Pauline Hanson wrapped herself in a cape of blue to launch...

By Tim Soutphommasane

The neglected holocaust

Australia's position on the neglected holocaust of AIDS, even in the immediate region, is overwhelmed by relentlessly beating the...

By Peter Todd

Libertarian nation by stealth

libertarian – A person who holds the doctrine of the freedom of the will, as opp. to that of...

By Chris Wallace

Reality beyond the whiteboard

In May 2003, a week after President Bush had declared victory in Iraq from the foredeck of the USS Abraham...

By Michael Wesley

A lingering legacy

THE BEAT-UP TAXI crawled down the wrong side of the road, along the dusty back streets of Cunnamulla in...

By Julianne Schultz

Post mortem

I REMOVED THE sheet covering the cadaver and tried not to focus on the overall appearance of the deceased....

By Jane Nicholls

Hanging on

In memory of David Myers, 1942–2007 HENRY SAT DESPONDENT in The Golden Bowl. The restaurant was empty because he was...

By Michael Wilding