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News
9 Apr 2016
Inside the PM-treasurer divide
Turnbull and Morrison, although I don’t think they hate each other, have had trouble singing from the same song sheet.
Karen Middleton
Seven months into their partnership, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are struggling to reconcile their different styles.
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News
9 Apr 2016
Wilson Security’s appalling record on Nauru
Wilson Security is in effect the on-island Gestapo. Because of Nauruan police apathy Wilson becomes the be all and end all.
Martin McKenzie-Murray
As stories emerge of contractors beating children on Nauru, Wilson Security’s entire operation looks increasingly broken.
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Opinion
9 Apr 2016
Masters of delusion
If you compromise with zealots all you do is encourage them to keep threatening to blow up the joint. And don’t worry: Turnbull is learning that at great cost.
Paul Bongiorno
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News
9 Apr 2016
Fault lines
The correspondence ended: ‘It is easier to support us, than work against us.’
Phillip Walker
In the wake of a local activist’s murder, Australian mining interests in Africa are being called into question.
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Opinion
9 Apr 2016
Taking proportions
Instead of having the ballast that encouraged them towards the centre, party apparatchiks now worry about clinging on to members who increasingly represent the edges rather than the mainstream.
Jim Middleton
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News
9 Apr 2016
Hope floats
Megan Anderson
As another tropical cyclone makes Fiji’s recovery even more difficult, yachties are working with the Fijian government to get aid where other vessels can’t.
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News
9 Apr 2016
Playing the flop
On the biggest issue of all, the wall-to-wall TV advertising of gambling services, the reform advocates expect nothing. ‘There’s an election coming…’
Mike Seccombe
As sports gambling becomes more ubiquitous – stimulated by TV advertising targeting young men – an inquiry focused on the illegality of offshore wagering rather than the dire social consequences is being sat on by government.
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World
9 Apr 2016
Rich and famous left to wear Panama hack
Hamish McDonald
Wealthy ‘countries’ unto themselves; Sanders and Cruz win Wisconsin; all eyes on downed Syrian jet.
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Culture
9 Apr 2016
Strings attached
Long-time ACO artistic director Richard Tognetti has lost nothing of his youthful passion and daring.
Darryn King
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Diary
9 Apr 2016
Gadfly: Where’s Hendo?
Diarist-at-large Richard Ackland flies about the nation.
Richard Ackland
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Film
9 Apr 2016
Moore is less
As a maker of documentaries, Michael Moore has already formed an opinion, ruining any chance for insight.
Christos Tsiolkas
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Travel
9 Apr 2016
Wrong turns
When travelling with a sick child, the journey between the glamorous cities of Paris and Venice becomes anything but stylish.
Alison Arnold
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Books
9 Apr 2016
Thornton McCamish, Our Man Elsewhere
Reviewer: JF
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Books
9 Apr 2016
Debra Jopson, Oliver of the Levant
Reviewer: DV
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Books
9 Apr 2016
Óscar Martínez, A History of Violence
Reviewer: SZ
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Technology
9 Apr 2016
Coding the future
Born in the computer age, ‘digital natives’ have little clue as to what goes on behind the reflective screen, leaving levels of tech literacy dangerously low.
Ruby J. Murray
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Food
9 Apr 2016
Culture club
The satisfaction of making your own yoghurt.
Andrew McConnell
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Portrait
9 Apr 2016
Brief histories
At the Adelaide Writers Festival with the affable and charming Jim Shepard.
Chris Flynn
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Quiz
9 Apr 2016
Minsk is the capital of which Eastern European country?
Test your general knowledge with our weekly quiz.
Cindy MacDonald
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Sport
9 Apr 2016
Triple threat:
Triathlete Courtney Atkinson on his bid for a third Olympics.
Cindy MacDonald