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Chloe Wilson is completing Honours in English at the University of Melbourne. Formerly a journalist who worked exclusively on the subject of pipelines, she now works at a small publisher as an editorial assistant.
The Prime Minister attended the funeral of Jake Kovco, the first Australian casualty in Iraq. However, he did not attend that of Mark Bingley, a Blackhawk captain who died whilst on duty in Fiji. Absences are not simple events. They often make political statements.
Reviews of Sex, Power and the Clergy; Media Mania: why our fear of modern media is misplaced; Saving Francesca and Olhovsky Prince of Hamburg.
Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much
Reviews of the books Speaking for Australia: Parliamentary speeches that shaped our nation; Direct action and democracy today; Scraps of Heaven and Lazy Man in China.