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Bush-bashing: the hated and the haters
FOUR YEARS AGO, George W. Bush campaigned as the "everyman President" who would "restore" honour and integrity to the...
Black gold and big girls’ toys
DRIVE ALONG THE Peak Downs Highway from Moranbah in Central Queensland to coastal Mackay, and you will almost certainly...
Gallipoli’s lifetime legacy
AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTS OF Gallipoli concentrate on the fighting there and the effects on civilian life back home. The Turkish...
My banker
MONEY ISN"T EVERYTHING!''Bloody nice when it just falls out of the sky, though.''You're still doing alright.''I won't starve. Only...
Learning to see
In my experience, the efficiency of an intelligence service depends ... on the willingness of those who receive its...
Virtual reality and a gilded age
MID-TOWN MANHATTAN, about where the Rockefeller Plaza spills on to Fifth Avenue, is arguably where a Venn diagram of...
Who guards the guardians?
TODAY I WANT to talk about a difficult problem – one that all politicians seek to avoid, since it...
Lyrics to imaginary songs
WHEN I THINK about poetry, about my need to read it and reflect on it – and even express...
Orchestrating the myth
IN OCTOBER 1938, the state-controlled German newspaper Berliner Zeitung am Mittag carried this headline, "In der Staatsoper: Das Wunder...
Learning to write
THAT MAGNIFICENT OLD monkey-apple tree shading the butcher's shop lodged in my mind through a strange trick of memory....
The liberating discipline
THE RICH PROCESS of life is all about the acquisition and application of knowledge. How we manage our life...
Never real and always true
IN 2003, AFTER more than a year in the grip of a major depressive episode, I consulted a doctor...
