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01 January 2005
As I reflect upon leadership and my human experience, one of my first thoughts is that leadership has to be for something. It is not a goal in itself.
Letters from Anne Dooley and Lynn Webber.
Thoughts from around the nation.
Cardinal George Pell recently spoke to the Acton Society on the limits of liberal democracy.
Instability in ivory coast.
An irony about scientists’ traditional lack of interest in politics is that science is profoundly socially disturbing—especially for ideologues with a conservative point of view.
I see that the Brits are about to bite the quirt and outlaw fox hunting. Only in England would the pursuit of the common fox threaten to divide the nation.
Has John Howard ever been so much in charge of affairs? He has a complete ascendency over a defeated, demoralised and directionless Opposition.
Hugh Dillon unravels the challenges of justice in Guantanamo Bay.
Poem by Peta Edmonds.
John Langmore reflects on the relationship between Australia and the United Nations
Sir Gustav Nossal is passionate about the lives of those the world often ignores.
Christine Gillespie walks in the steps of her Lalor ancestors.
The legacy of Franco still looms large in the Spanish imagination
Obituaries provide a window on the lives of those great and small
Michele Gierck meets Ulli and Georgina Beier.
Avril Hannah-Jones looks at the effectiveness of protesting.
Kate Stowell visits Uzbekistan, a democratic republic still under the reign of its former communist party leader.
Getting children out of the house just became a little easier
Luke Fraser reviews On the warpath: An anthology of Australian military travel, edited by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce.
Brian Matthews has words with Julian Burnside’s Word Watching, and Don Watson’s Weasel Words.
Matthew Lamb reviews Kisch in Australia by Heidi Zogbaum.
Tony Smith reviews Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close; Garry Disher’s Kittyhawk Down and Alexander McCall Smith’s The Sunday Philosophy Club.
Chris Gleeson investigates Brian Doyle’s The wet engine: Exploring the mad wild miracle of the heart.
Reviews of the books The happy phrase: Everyday conversation made easily and In pursuit of plants: Experiences of nineteenth and early twentieth century plant collectors.
Poems by By Aileen Kelly
Reviews of the films Bad Santa; Team America: World Police; Finding Neverland and Napoleon Dynamite.
Real men may brew beer but they don’t have to prove anything, unlike the sad creatures that run the men’s rights websites.