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Phil is always at the end of the bar with his head in a book or, occasionally, a newspaper. He never tires of reading in company, with a either a vodka and Coke or a Cascade Light just off the page.
This month The Lancet published the findings of an Iraq war mortality survey that put the toll at more than 600,000. The US should recognise this figure because other studies in Darfur, Kosovo and Afghanistan employing identical methods are widely accepted.
Denis Altman's 51st State aims to undermine the clichés associated with Australian-US Relatons, without underestimating the remorseless destruction of Australian identity, and political and business life, as well as many local norms and icons.
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
Like most organisms, human beings are most comfortable in their own neighbourhood.
Australia is in a one-in-a-century drought. In India, water is always scarce and the conflict over its management rife—a precise illustration of what not to do. Maybe we can learn?
Archimedes was heartened by one aspect of the whole sad Warne anti-doping affair—that people knew enough about the issues to filter out the bulldust.
We can all take it as read that various shivers have gone down various spines in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The real question is whether one is going down ours.
Archimedes’ interest was sparked by recent studies linking behaviour with physical changes in the human body.
Moira Rayner on Janusz Korczak and the early history of children’s rights.
If I were Tony Abbott, I would be carefully listening to doctors’ whinges about medical insurance.
The courtesy of God, the consequences of conscience and 20th-century giants
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