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IT WAS EARLY 1996, and getting late in the evening. Somewhere in a nondescript building in central Canberra, I...

By AJ Brown

THERE IS A need for a fundamental revision of the way we think about democracy in our times. An epochal...

By John Keane

THE IDEA THAT it is the primary function of elected governments to raise the disposable income of their citizens...

By Mark Hopkinson

THE FORMER PRIME minister once dreamed of Australia as a nation of shareholders, enriched by their participation in the...

By Hugh Mackay

Once in a rare while the fundamental architecture of a significant part of society shifts. Over the last two...

By Cheryl Kernot

IT WAS ALWAYS a thrill to find an email from the prospective president of the free world jumping out...

By Julianne Schultz

This is what happensI go insweep the floorclear the dishesinterview the Secretary of State over a flat whiteand lamingtonand...

By Christine Paice

WE WERE LIVING in Napier at the time. My father pulled the keys down from the hook in the...

By Lloyd Jones

OUR FAMILY'S NEVER been very good at ‘family'. When my nephew was conceived my sister and I weren't even...

By Catherine Harris

IT'S TRUE I wanted him dead and would gladly have done it myself. I wonder about the days before...

By Chris Womersley

THE EIGHTH WONDER of the World had already been proclaimed well before the grand opening in Dubai of Atlantis,...

By Hilary McPhee

I SPENT MUCH of 2008 in France, Spain and Greece, living among British expats, some of them relatives or...