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Books June 09, 2018
The Sydney Wars
Australia Day. Invasion Day. The politics around commemorating January 26 has become angrier. While the history of European settlement will likely always be contested, often bitterly, it is clear Indigenous Australians did not acquiesce in the occupation …
Books December 16, 2017
Curing Affluenza
Picture two rooms, both in the inner city, both groaning with stuff. One is lined with shelves sagging under the weight of books and CDs. There are paintings, sketches, engravings and photographs, none of them particularly valuable but all, one way or …
Books February 24, 2018
The Growth Delusion
Of all the “fun facts” in David Pilling’s engaging book on the multiple failures of neoliberal economics, this is the most revealing. Back in the late 1980s, after Thatcherism had had almost a decade to work its tax-cutting, deregulatory charms …
Books November 25, 2017
Wednesdays with Bob
So much has been written about Bob Hawke – Labor’s longest-serving prime minister, women fawning in his presence, blokes awed by his sporting and drinking prowess – you might wonder what more there is to know about him. But just a couple of pages …
