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The first topic for consideration today is this: will it be feasible for the working masses to know complete...

'Nothing is as revolutionary as candour.' – Robert Desnos (French surrealist from the 1930s) I THINK WE would agree –...

By Frank Moorhouse

AT THE FUNERAL of Chile's General Pinochet, in December 2006, Francisco Cuadrado Prats stood for hours in a queue...

By Maria Tumarkin

'BUT COULD YOU do it warts and all?'When in 2002 Michael Kirby greeted my proposal for a biography with...

By AJ Brown

TODAY I BOUGHT a new mobile telephone. The woman who served me seemed weary, which was understandable since it...

By Adam Muir

In the town of Odessathere is a gardenand Dvonya is there,Dvonya whom I lovethough I have never been in...

By Peter Bishop

FOUR YEARS AFTER the release of the film adaptation of Romulus, My Father, it still feels strange to refer...

By Raimond Gaita

THE CASUAL OBSERVER might imagine that a sweeping election victory after years in the political wilderness would be cause...

By Anne Tiernan

In memory of Harvey. Dedicated to Donna. IN 1977, ON a windy summer day, two thirteen-year-olds walked into a milk...

By Meera Atkinson

'THERE ARE TWO types of people in the world, aren't there, Aunty Tone?' asks Bella, who is five going...

By Toni Jordan

A NEW MALE human being entered the universe a year ago, with one-eighth of his genetic material identical to...

October 2003Betty Dixon from Goulburn called this morning. She had some information about one of "her boys" in the...

By Anne Coombs