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SYDNEY 2008: TO make it to the offices of a project team at Macquarie Capital in Sydney's Martin Place,...

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

By Peter Craven

Thoughts lead on to purposes, purposes go forth in action, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes...

By Craig Scutt

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

DRIVE ALONG THE Peak Downs Highway from Moranbah in Central Queensland to coastal Mackay, and you will almost certainly...

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

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...

By Wayne McLennan

In my experience, the efficiency of an intelligence service depends ... on the willingness of those who receive its...

By Paul Monk

MID-TOWN MANHATTAN, about where the Rockefeller Plaza spills on to Fifth Avenue, is arguably where a Venn diagram of...

By Julianne Schultz

TODAY I WANT to talk about a difficult problem – one that all politicians seek to avoid, since it...

By Peter Beattie

WHEN I THINK about poetry, about my need to read it and reflect on it – and even express...

By Mark Mordue

IN OCTOBER 1938, the state-controlled German newspaper Berliner Zeitung am Mittag carried this headline, "In der Staatsoper: Das Wunder...

By Greg Barnes