Literature
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 ...  
Something to Read While the Women of this World Pass You By

Tiernan Kelly says the gritty new debut novel by brothers Josh and Benny Jones features outstan ...  
Happy Margo Kingston relaunches 'Still Not Happy, John!'

Margo Kingston’s 2007 bestseller ‘Still Not Happy, John!’has been relaunched as an ebook. ...  
Bob Ellis on the Bryce Courtenay he knew

In by no means a hagiography, Bob Ellis writes that he met Bryce Courtenay in 1962, was fired by ...  
Campbell Newman picks Big Brother over the Arts in Queensland

In Campbell Newman’s Queensland, the Government slashes funding for literature and the arts, but ...  
Rodney E. Lever: The Fall of the House of Murdoch

A new book reflects on the Orwellian tactics exercised by Rupert Murdoch through his News Corp ...  
Zombies take Brisbane

In the last few years zombies have taken over post-apocalyptic fiction from their evil dead ...  
The Republic of Letters

Now in its fourth year, the National Republican Short Story Competition is helping to build the ...  

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