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- The perils of peace
Former rebels have come to power in Aceh but they now face the twin challenges of winning greater autonomy from Jakarta and controlling corruption in their own ranks, writes Edward Aspinall
- 02 July 2009
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- We aren’t refugees
For people on Kiribati and Tuvalu facing increasing climate pressures, the description “refugee” has too many negative connotations, write Jane McAdam and Maryanne Loughry
- 29 June 2009
Essays & reportage
- On relations with trees
- 24 June 2009
Melissa Sweet returns to a life in the Australian bush
- Suburban mayhem
- 17 June 2009
The Slap captures contemporary Australian life? Andrew Lynch isn’t so sure
Politics & policy
- One man’s ambition
- 02 July 2009
Norman Abjorensen previews Liberal Rule, the “best effort yet at coming to grips with these extraordinary years”
- The waiting game
- 29 June 2009
That old diplomatic stand-by, “masterly inactivity,” might well be the best response to the events in Iran, writes Kevin Boreham
Media & culture
- A revolution you can bet on
- 02 July 2009
When the Communist Party bought a lotto ticket this week, Comrade Michael Lasky inevitably sprang to mind, writes Brett Evans.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four turns sixty
- 09 June 2009
It hasn’t happened yet, but Nineteen Eighty-Four has enough threads of prescience to keep us alert, writes Brian McFarlane
From the archive
- We have still not lived long enough
- 16 February 2009
Testimony from the 1939 and 2009 fires suggests there is one thing we never seem to learn from history, writes Tom Griffiths
- The diaspora fights back
- 04 December 2008
Rugby star David Campese, Victorian Labor MP Carlo Carli and Argentinean millionaire Luigi Pallaro (pictured) all took a keen interest in Italy’s experiment in democracy. But it looked a lot like politics as usual, reports James Panichi
Podcasts
- Uniting the opposition in Iran
- 25 June 2009
Ali Ansari, director of the Iranian Institute at the University of St Andrews, talks to Peter Clarke about the growing split in Iran’s ruling elite
- Democracy gains momentum in Iran
- 07 June 2009
Ali Ansari describes to Peter Clarke how the economic downturn and the sidelining of Iran’s powerful Guardian Council have thrown open this Friday’s presidential election
Asia & the Pacific
- Personal reasons
- 02 July 2009
New Zealand’s National Party government has lost its first minister, while Labour easily retained Helen Clark’s old seat, writes Norm Kelly
- Getting serious about Pakistan
- 18 June 2009
Pakistan needs a greater Australian investment in dollars and people, writes Geoffrey Barker
The economy
- The American puzzle
- 28 May 2009
A new book argues that inequality is bad for everyone. And even critics concede that the United States is both unusually unequal and a poor social performer, writes John Quiggin
- Another Budget lockup
- 13 May 2009
How does the Budget look if you’ve been going into the lock-up since 1952? The Press Gallery’s longest-serving member, Rob Chalmers, reports from Canberra
Europe
- In defence of rorting
- 04 June 2009
The target of the public’s vengeance for the failure of the Thatcherite/Blairite compact has shifted from bankers to MPs, writes Frank Bongiorno in London
- The cruellest month
- 18 May 2009
Everyone seems to have some sort of camera these days, as the British Police are discovering to their cost, writes Frank Bongiorno
Africa
- The two Islamists
- 23 May 2009
With two former allies battling for control of Mogadishu, Somalia’s transitional government faces a fresh challenge, writes Xan Rice
- Zuma unleashed
- 08 April 2009
The less glorious traditions of the ANC have been on vivid display during South Africa’s election campaign, writes Nic Dawes
The Americas
- Adjusting to change
- 17 April 2009
Don’t expect a revolution in US foreign policy, writes Andy Butfoy
- The philosopher politician
- 10 March 2009
Will another liberal intellectual lead a party to power, this time in Canada? Fred Fletcher profiles Michael Ignatieff
Reviews
- Gulfs of desire
- 15 June 2009
Peter Craven reviews Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
- The new black
- 19 May 2009
Sylvia Lawson reviews Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah and this year’s Message Sticks festival
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