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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tales from the bench

    • Frank Brennan
    • 26 June 2006

    Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Romance v. reality

    • Virginia Bourke
    • 24 June 2006

    The cost of raising a child is no measure of a parent’s love.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Want to live to be 100?

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 12 June 2006
    1 Comment

    As researchers learn more and more about how organisms work, it’s becoming increasingly evident that our lifespan is programmed into us and can be reprogrammed.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Butchering words

    • Brian Matthews
    • 31 May 2006

    A friend of mine, fond of fashioning his own brand of aphorism, announced one day, after what he claimed had been a long period of research, ‘butchers are much given to bullshit.’

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Football Fiction

    • Ian C. Smith
    • 14 May 2006

    Poem by Ian C. Smith

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  • AUSTRALIA

    American dream

    • Aaron Martin
    • 11 May 2006

    The rise and fall of Colin Powell

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The threat to empire

    • Luke Fraser
    • 11 May 2006

    An ageing population may be the downfall of the Western empire

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Selling the silver

    • Jack Waterford
    • 25 April 2006

    The largesse in the Budget shouldn’t have proven a surprise, even if conventional wisdom is that budgets following elections are the ones in which governments make tough decisions.

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  • MEDIA

    First lady of the airwaves

    • Bridget Griffen-Foley
    • 25 April 2006
    1 Comment

    Known as the Queen of Radio and the Baroness of Broadcasting, Australia’s audacious first woman talkback presenter preferred to be known simply as Andrea

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Who was Harold Holt?

    • Philip Harvey
    • 23 April 2006

    Philip Harvey reviews Tom Frame’s The  Life and Death of Harold Holt.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Trouble in the kitchen

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 21 April 2006

    Inspired by TV cooking programs, men are buying cookbooks that were never meant to leave the top of a coffee table - and then they make shopping lists that include squid ink and quinoa.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Peter Roebuck - man on a journey

    • Matthew Klugman & Alex McDermot
    • 05 July 2003

    Peter Roebuck’s cricket commentaries connect us with more than just a game.

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