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01 May 2004
MedicarePlus passed through parliament in early March. Rather than easing the financial burden on average working families, closer examination reveals the policy leads to the creation of poverty traps.
John Howard and Alexander Downer do Australia no favours in suggesting that to place Australia’s interests ahead of those of the United States, is proof of anti-Americanism or unsound policy.
Elections in El Salvador
Life in Kabul.
Democracy in South Africa
Football teams, empires and prime ministers rise and fall but, it is said, God’s word abides forever. True, but the books of scripture themselves also rise and fall in popularity.
Australians have been brilliant at ideas, and poor at using them to practical purposes. In our rush to generate a more productive research culture, we must guard against cutting off the well-spring of ideas.
Towards the end of a bleak, mid-February Friday, the wind started to groan through the narrow, village streets. Shutters creaked and in the valley below a filmy curtain materialised over the vines and blurred the outlines of the farmhouses.
Terms of endearment. Smashing idea. Back in the saddle.
Michael McGirr farewells Alistair Cooke.
Poetry by Paul Mitchell & Judith Bishop
Anthony Ham looks at the national and international legacy of the bombings in Madrid.
‘Let us be absolutely clear about this: Australia treats asylum seekers abominably—we imprison them indefinitely, we torment them, we are willing to return them to torture or death’
The move to private education is not always what parents might hope.
Don Gazzard on Bellini, the architect for the re-design of the NGV.
Michael Magnusson and Caravaggio.
Poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
This year’s May anniversary of independence for Timor Leste is Xanana Gusmão’s second as President and the country’s fifth as a free territory. Sara Niner looks at the current political machinations.
Educator Tom Mann recalls his experiences of working with children in detention
Mary Manning interviews English novelist Salley Vickers.
Juliette Hughes interviews Fr Joseph Nguyen Cong Doan SJ.
Anna Griffiths marvels at the beauty of Los Angeles’ Our Lady Queen of the Angels Cathedral.
Michael Furtado on public money and private schools.
This story of one asylum seeker portrays the best and worst in our nature.
Stephen Holt reviews Michael Gilchrist’s Wit and Wisdom: Daniel Mannix
Andrew Hamilton critiques Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, Sending them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference.
Beth Doherty reviews Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu’s I, Safiya.
Reviews of the films Monster, The Cat in the Hat, The Barbarian Invasions, and Capturing the Friedmans.
I’m fine now, really. The nightmares are receding, the rash is responding to aromatherapy and I’ve cut back the shrink to once a day.