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01 July 2003
The recent controversy about the ABC has been studied as an exercise in politics, as a lesson in handling criticism and as an exercise in free speech. It may also be part of a larger cultural shift in the way governments see themselves in relation to the people they govern.
The Howard government wants a different Medicare: one where people who can, pay more to visit a doctor. The government is grappling with a complex economic issue, but should not dismiss the social benefits that Medicare delivers to the very sick and less well off.
Letters from Greg Hawthorne, John Dobinson
Labor’s leadership problems have been a dream for the Liberal Party, not least by obscuring the fact that the real victor in leadership games over recent months has been the prime minister, John Howard.
Thoughts from all over
Dr Seuss’ books, Peace under fire, The good life, Sidney Nolan
The principle of scarcity—the fear that there is not enough to go round (enough love, enough food, enough land, enough of God, enough ‘salvation’) is a strong motivator for possessiveness and for jealousy.
Archimedes’ interest was sparked by recent studies linking behaviour with physical changes in the human body.
Conflicts of interest pose a serious threat to democracy
Poems by Libby Hart and Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Some time in November 1962, I decided to upgrade my living arrangements from squalid to moderately conventional ...
Justice has become a life’s work for the Guildford Four’s Paul Hill.
Africa resists the moral authority of the West, says Anthony Ham.
Pam O’Connor reviews Margaret Simons’ The Meeting of the Waters: the Hindmarsh Island Affair.
Manipulating images: from the real to the ideal
Community Development projects can make a difference
Experiencing death in the midst of life
The trafficking of women highlights the consequences of the government’s policy on illegal immigration
A Naga poet keeps her culture alive even without a recognised homeland
Peter Craven on John Bell’s Hamlet.
Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.
June Saunders was a little-known Queensland poet with a wealth of potential
Michael McKernan confronts an ugly Australian.
Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.
Remembering the life and talents of Richard Victor Hall, 1937–2003
The people of Colombia’s Cacarica River Basin face an uncertain future.
James Minchin reviews Chris Lydgate’s Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent.
John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life
Lyn Riddett struggles to explain her unbelief to believing friends.
Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.
Reviews of the films Naqoyqatsi; Open Hearts; The Matrix Reloaded and La vérité si je mens! 2.
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