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Keywords: Anne Manne

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Incivility trumps the empty dance of manners

    • Brian Doyle
    • 25 June 2008
    5 Comments

    One time we were in a meeting when a very important person proposed a very stupid idea. We knew our uncivil friend would pop a gasket, and he did, albeit in memorably incisive fashion. The silence that followed was a remarkable sound.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Burying Australia's inhumane refugee laws

    • David Manne
    • 19 May 2008
    5 Comments

    Australia's refugee regime may represent the Western world's worst practice. The Government has abolished flawed and dehumanising temporary protection visas, but a more substantial review is required to ensure asylum seekers enjoy equal protection under Australian law.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    'Best' essays merit book title's reckless superlative

    • Alexandra Coghlan
    • 13 December 2007

    The recurrence of the ‘big' issues of politics, religion, and sexuality in Best Australian Essays 2007 is predictable enough. But the essays become more interesting when we see particular trends, such as surveillance and the individual's right to privacy, emerge in each.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    David Manne

    • David Manne
    • 17 May 2007

    David Manne is coordinator and principal solicitor at the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre in Melbourne.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Models for a good life and an honest death

    • Clive O'Connell
    • 16 October 2006

    Historian Inga Clendinnen's reviews, childhood recollections, multi-coloured reminiscences of her working career, and informed discourse on simple events or complex ideas, are collected in a way that reveals a tempered tolerance seemingly inherited from her favourite essayist, Montaigne.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Surface reality only in DIY TV

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 07 August 2006

    DIY programs bulge with all manner of handy hints, as happy hosts clamour to offer their free-to-air advice. But scratch the surface, and even a friendly face can turn ugly on you.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Foundering justice

    • David Manne
    • 05 July 2006

    Stowaways’ rights to seek asylum are being denied, argues David Manne.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Windschuttle’s Whitewash

    • Robert Manne
    • 18 June 2006

    This is the full text of the speech prepared for the debate with Keith Windschuttle at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. It draws on some of the contributions found in Robert Manne’s (ed), Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Black Inc, 2003).

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On record

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 22 May 2006

    Andrew Hamilton critiques Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, Sending them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Refugee Legislation proves Government's reform desire a sham

    • David Manne
    • 18 May 2006
    3 Comments

    Refugee lawyer David Manne sets new refugee legislation in its historical context, and exposes its radical and brutal character.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The nurturing instinct

    • Sara Dowse
    • 23 April 2006

    Sara Dowse admires Anne Manne’s book Motherhood: How should we care for our  children?

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