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2.1KEconomyLet us hope the days of the cargo cult are over
Pictures: Matt Newton http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ The story of Gunns is a parable of corporate hubris. You can, as they did, corrupt the polity,...
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A Loss for Words
Campbell Newman’s attack on the Queensland premier’s prizes wasn’t about doing something better for literature in Queensland. It was a brutish, if...
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A loss for words
First published in the SMH here, on June 16. The Miles Franklin is presented next week. But are prizes really good for...
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Janet Laurence: After Eden
Speech launching After Eden, an installation by Janet Laurence at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 15 March 2012, Sydney. Images from Janet Laurence’s...
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The State: The glorious folly of one …
Pic: Heritage Tasmania LAUNCH SPEECH OF THE STATE CINEMA BOOK STORE and SUNDRY EXTENSIONS Thursday 5 April 2012 Richard Flanagan Hobartians have...
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Australia’s problem? We never talked about Kevin Rudd
‘I was elected by the Australian people as the prime minister,” Kevin Rudd said in his tearful speech after being deposed as...
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2.2KEconomy
What Lara said. True History of Forest Violence. Lara sorry. Bryan’s trade trip. Booth’s mill call
Quotes from Premier Lara Giddings … related to forestry rally, Saturday, Huonville, organised by Huon MLC Paul Harris and Huon Resource Development...
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What Leo says about Richard Flanagan …
Richard Flanagan is one of Australia’s finest writers, a polymath with a mind-boggling range of interests and a unique way of communicating...
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Hot Tea Trot
If there is a hot Tasmanian at the mo’ … it’s gotta be Richard Flanagan. Once vilified by now Deputy Premier Bryan...
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Our compass for hope into the future
Let me speak plainly. I do not believe the Heads of Agreement deal is a good deal. By locking in large volumes...
