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Category Archives: Australia
The Last Generalist: Bob Ellis and Australian Public Life
Bob Ellis (1942-2016) worked across more fields of Australian public life than any writer of his generation. He wrote novels, plays, screenplays, memoirs, political histories, essays, poetry, songs, and journalism. He directed films. He drafted speeches for premiers and federal … Continue reading
The Barry Humphries Show
Barry Humphries (1934-2023) built his personas out of the ear before the eye. He listened to how Australians talked, collected the suburban idiom, the brand names, the genteel pretensions, and gave it all back heightened. The costumes came second. Each … Continue reading
The Emotional Palettes of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
Brisbane carries the mood of a slow Sunday in the subtropics. Heat and humidity slow a man down and loosen his hurry. The brown river bends through the center and sets the pace. Colors run warm: jacaranda purple, river water … Continue reading
Malcolm Knox: A Life in Australian Letters
Malcolm Knox was born in 1966 and grew up in St Ives on Sydney’s North Shore. He attended Knox Grammar School for thirteen years, captained the First XI cricket team, played in the First XV rugby side, and competed in … Continue reading
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The Authenticity Trap: How Aboriginal Advocates Learned to Navigate Majority Australia’s Guilt
How did Australia’s Aborigines develop narratives that garnered maximum sympathy for their concerns from the majority population? The Aboriginal case is analytically interesting because it represents a community that has had to navigate a specific and unusually difficult set of … Continue reading
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Populism Rises In Australia
Australia built its national character on a promise. Work hard, follow the rules, and you can buy a home, build a life, and pass something on to your children. For decades, that promise held. It produced a country with higher … Continue reading
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Jews & The Guardianship Question In Australia & New Zealand
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question Alliance Theory Asia Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia and New Zealand are settler societies organized around British cultural inheritance, which means that the literary and academic … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Australia Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full Canberra throttle in the Lodge, the Department of Defence, DFAT, and the National Security Committee rooms right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign grinding into its second month, Khamenei martyred, Iranian nuclear sites … Continue reading
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The Oracle Who Knows He Is the Oracle Is Still the Oracle
Charles Taylor’s buffered self is the modern identity that has learned to maintain distance from its own enthusiasms, that experiences the world through a protective layer of interpretive awareness rather than being directly moved by what it encounters. The enchanted … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Australian Aboriginal Authority
Yirrkala, an aboriginal tribe in Australia’s Norther Territory, does not look like a site of jurisdictional conflict. It looks like a painting. Red earth meeting turquoise water. Mangroves. Sacred rock outcrops. The art centre. A dugong surfacing offshore. It looks … Continue reading
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