A pity. Because Rudds current political plight calls to mind the maxim of that novels intrepid but pragmatic heroine Lorelei Lee: "Fate Keeps On Happening". The "fate" in question is the 2001 national election, which should have been a disaster for ...
What is lacking in Peter Gay's account of modern art is a serious effort (or any effort) to explain that maniacal anti-bourgeoisie hatred which Baudelaire and, especially, Flaubert injected into modernism’s bloodstream. It was a hatred all the more ...
Among the election’s issues: Iraq (to a very limited extent), the economy, tax cuts, national security, climate change, and quasi-generational change (Rudd is a youthful-looking 50 years old, Howard an increasingly tired-looking 68). Almost ...
Things have changed – a little - for the better in Australia. Debate is once again permitted on the role of immigration in Australia. The triumphalism of the open-borders lobby has been shattered, perhaps irrevocably. This happened in part because of ...
It must be tempting for Americans to assume that we Australians are simply Americans with weird accents. After all, we speak English, sort of. Our TV stations (oops, “channels”) are awash with the same voyeurist dreck as America’s: the same Jerry ...
When Mrs. Gandhi returned to power in a 1980 landslide, Sydney’s Sun-Herald summed up her achievement in three words: “INDIA: SHE’S BACK.” Of Australian politics in late 2003, it can similarly be said, “SHE’S BACK.” Pauline’s imprisonment even drew ...
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