Keywords: Governor General
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Coffey
- 10 July 2006
Margaret Coffey reviews Sean McConville’s weighty tome, Irish Political Prisoners, 1848–1922, Theatres of War.
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AUSTRALIA
- Eureka Street editors
- 09 July 2006
Latham negotiates political ladders, lovely views at the gallery and passports to freedom.
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 09 July 2006
The annual release of the once secret cabinet papers on New Year’s Day is now a political ritual. After 30 years, the public is able to look at cabinet’s deliberations on weighty matters, which have been kept under lock and key for a generation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Griffin
- 06 July 2006
James Griffin reviews the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.16, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Griffiths
- 05 July 2006
Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 26 June 2006
The recent controversy about the ABC has been studied as an exercise in politics, as a lesson in handling criticism and as an exercise in free speech. It may also be part of a larger cultural shift in the way governments see themselves in relation to the people they govern.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Avril Hannah-Jones, Chloe Wilson, Terry Monagle
- 24 June 2006
Reviews of Sex, Power and the Clergy; Media Mania: why our fear of modern media is misplaced; Saving Francesca and Olhovsky Prince of Hamburg.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 18 June 2006
More evidence emerges for the stolen generation.
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AUSTRALIA
- 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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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Pierce, David Glanz, Tony Brennan
- 13 June 2006
News from around the traps.
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