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What Rudd could learn from Gillard about leadership 1 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Judith Brett In her gracious resignation speech after Kevin Rudd finally succeeded in his campaign to oust her, Julia Gillard canvassed the role of gender in her experience as Australia’s first femal...
Rudd’s comeback and Murdoch’s counterattack 1 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Mungo MacCallum “When you change the government,” Paul Keating once declared, “you change the country.” On a lesser scale, if you change the leader, you change the politics. The Kevin Rudd renaissan...
Censorship, sex and scandal in Singapore 1 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
André Dao Almost three years ago, Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD) approached Tey Tsun Hang, a Malaysian-born law associate professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), abou...
Wilfred Burchett and the KGB 1 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The legendary war correspondent was in the pay of the KGB Robert Manne Among Australian journalists there has been no individual more lionised or demonised than Wilfred Burchett. Burchett’s suppor....
Out of the Vinyl Deeps 30 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Ellen Willis; NewSouth Publishing; $29.95 Robert Forster Soon after Sasha Frere-Jones took up his position as pop critic (his term) at the New Yorker in 2004, curious about his predecessors, he aske...
Arrested Development’s unlikely resurrection 30 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Elmo Keep Arrested Development has often been described as a “live-action Simpsons”, and this remains the best comparison for a show so in love with the medium of television itself. The first three s...
Sam Dastyari tries to fix the ALP 30 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Is the general of NSW Labor serious about reform? Nick Bryant Few places more neatly illustrate the Australian Labor Party’s dismal plight than Lalor Park in the north-western suburbs of Sydney. The...
How NSA surveillance destroys privacy and undermines our sovereignty 30 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Richard Cooke The French called it the cabinet noir – the “black chamber”. Set behind the General Post Office in the Rue Coq Heron, its job was to take letters of interest, open them, read their cont...
Inside Tony Abbott's mind 30 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
This is serious Waleed Aly Tony Abbott was the man who could never be prime minister. “He’s just too right-wing,” a colleague told the Courier-Mail. “Too hardline,” said another to Abbott’s face. “H...
We Steal Secrets: Alex Gibney, WikiLeaks & Julian Assange 30 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Robert Manne Alex Gibney is one of America’s most celebrated and respected documentary film-makers. His major work about Julian Assange, We Steal Secrets: The story of WikiLeaks, has just been releas...
