Tom Morton

Tom Morton is a journalist and broadcaster with ABC Radio National. He is the author of Altered Mates: The Man Question (Allen and Unwin, 1997) and writes regularly for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Tom is presently working on a novel set in the late 18th century and based on the life of Georg Forster, a German writer, traveller and revolutionary who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage around the world and died in Paris in 1794, at the height of the French revolution.

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Only connect

ReviewMY FIRST THOUGHTS on family politics for this essay came to me in the middle of a crowd of sweaty, half-naked men, some of them wearing frocks. I'm holding my four-year-old son above my head and dancing while he...

Manufacturing ancient hatreds

Reportage"Can the West, which takes its great invention, democracy, more seriously than the Word of God, come out against this coup that has brought an end to democracy?...Can the West endure any democracy achieved by enemies who in no...

Dreams of freedom

EssayI'M LYING PROPPED up on one elbow at Kyeemagh beach, looking out over Botany Bay. I love this utterly urban seascape; less than a kilometre away, planes taxi out to the water's edge, turn and lumber into the air,...

A short prehistory of the future

EssayAh, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!– Samuel Beckett, Endgame Above all, the bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers.– Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto FOR ME, THE history of the crisis begins with a sound. It's a chilly spring afternoon...

Uncle Sam’s bastard children

ReportageThe world is not for sale.– attac website, 2003Free trade is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is free trade.– Sir John Bowring, 19th-century British industrialist, social reformer and free-trader ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2003, 56-year-old Lee Kyung-Hae, a farmer from Korea, clambered...

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