Keywords: Quarterly Essay
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CONTRIBUTORS
John Button was a minister and senator in the Hawke and Keating governments. He has written books, a Quarterly Essay, and has also written for, among many publications, the Sydney Morning Herald and Crikey.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robert Hefner
- 22 January 2007
After many thousands of years, modernity is sweeping away nomadic existence. Cosmologies such as Aboriginal Dreaming encode irreplaceable knowledge of the natural world, and nomadic cultures emphasise qualities of tolerance, adaptability and human interconnectedness.
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RELIGION
- Morag Fraser
- 23 December 2006
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In the ideal world, the Christmas stockings of politicians would be filled with books. No bottles of single malt. No Tom Waits triple CD (alas). Only books.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Ashby
- 07 August 2006
Denis Altman's 51st State aims to undermine the clichés associated with Australian-US Relatons, without underestimating the remorseless destruction of Australian identity, and political and business life, as well as many local norms and icons.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Godfrey Moase, Marcelle Mogg, John Carmody
- 10 July 2006
Reviews of Frontier Justice: Weapons of mass destruction and the bushwacking of America; Best Australian political cartoons and Quarterly Essay, ‘Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance’.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes, Andrew Hamilton
- 08 July 2006
Reviews of Quarterly Essay, Groundswell: the Rise of the Greens; The Tournament; The Writer and the World and Wild Politics.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Craven
- 01 July 2006
Peter Craven on recent star-studded Australian works.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Craven
- 26 June 2006
Peter Craven on John Bell’s Hamlet.
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AUSTRALIA
- Eureka Street Editor
- 16 June 2006
Touch of the sun, inner happiness, Germaine Greer and too much garlic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Craven
- 07 June 2006
Peter Craven casts light on the Dance of Death.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 22 May 2006
Andrew Hamilton critiques Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, Sending them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
John Button peruses the diaries of Harold Macmillan.
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