Literature
Four Colour Culture: Source Material

In the first issue of a new column, entertainment editor John Turnbull takes a look at the graphic ...  
The Lucky Country and the Republic — 50 years on

The first edition of The Lucky Country was published fifty years ago in December 1964 by staunch ...  
The climate wars: IPA amateurs inordinately outgunned by Royal Society experts

The Institute of Public Affairs has renewed its attack on climate science. Steve Bishop explains ...  
The murderous secrets of Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa regime

Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence reviews Trevor Grant’s new book SRI LANKA'S SECRETS ...  
SRI LANKA’S SECRETS: New book exposes murderous Rajapaksa regime

Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence introduces a new book on Sri Lanka's murderous Rajap ...  
News Corp: Beyond contempt

Peter Jukes has written a fascinating account of the News Corp hacking trials, which he had live ...  
Bob Carr's book and Australia's guided democracy

Bob Carr's new book is an insightful and illuminating read and Carr does not deserve the hyster ...  
Breaking News: The last years of Rupert’s reign

The long reign of the Sun king, Rupert Murdoch, is approaching its end in a rising blaze of ...  
Tingle-ing Australians

Australian Financial Review's Chief Economics editor, Laura Tingle's sweeping condemnation of A ...  
Speculating on the republic

  There have certainly been many republican writers in Australia’s past but very few ...  
Republican challenge to Australian speculative fiction writers

The 2010 Second National Republican Short Story Competition opened on 1 May 2010 and will close on ...  
Australian identity, literature and an Australian republic

A major reason for an Australian republic is to aid the further development of a distinct and ...  
Watch out for the Walking Dead

In the last few years, zombies have taken over post-apocalyptic fiction, TV and films from their ...  
A Fischer of (anti-Semitic) men

Australia's former Ambassador to Rome has written a book that should disgust Australia's Jewish ...  
Love versus Goliath: a book by Robyn Oyeniyi

The issue of asylum seekers is constantly testing governments around the world; Marilyn Shepherd ...  
Whom the Gods Destroy

Graham Jackson reviews the first novel by Macushla O'Loan — a Gothic Greek tragedy turned ...  
Latham's neo-liberal Latham and Abbott's right rat-snake

Mark Latham may have succumbed to the creed of neo-liberalism, but he has summed up the Abbott ...  
Dial M for Murdoch: into the court of the Sun King

The book Dial M for Murdoch is a chilling reminder, writes Graham Jackson, that Rupert Murdoch ...  
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