It is light on political gossip, big on family dinners and highlights some significant policy achievements. Dennis Altman reads The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
- Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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My Life as a Jew is an honest and very personal book about a growing sense of Jewish identity, but it has its contradictions.
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A new book of essays chronicles the failings of the Morrison government, but leaves much unexamined.
In March, Albanese joined 50,000 people to march in support of queer rights. At the same time, in another part of the world, Uganda passed a string of draconian anti-gay laws.
Breaking History reads like a dutiful student’s account of ‘what I did on my summer holidays’. But Kushner provides useful insights into the Washington and Middle Eastern policy-making processes.
La Boite’s play is enormously entertaining, particularly when it takes off in the second half as what best be described as a sexy gay pantomime.
Former ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey considers himself ‘a unique and successful politician’. Dennis Altman is not convinced.
The biggest hurdle for republicans is the reality that Australia is already an independent nation. Only sentiment and inertia links us to the British crown.
Most Australians have known no British sovereign other than the queen. Without her, questions about a republic will again come to the fore.
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A new book argues no-one writing an Australian constitution today would argue for creating a head of state on the other side of the world who is hand-picked by the head of government.
Violence in Gaza has once again brought the Labor Party’s conflicted position on Israel and Palestine to the fore.
If he wins the White House, Joe Biden will likely have to deal with a Republican-controlled Senate and a lot of Americans who believe he is not the legitimate president.
A hostile Senate has, in recent history, made the president’s job very difficult. To really effect change, Democrats need to not just win the White House, but Congress too.
Hamilton – soon to stream as a film – has been hailed as radical. But it’s true to the traditions of the American musical – the pursuit of truth, freedom and the American dream.
Dead bodies left at home and in streets. Quarantined people facing hunger. Political turmoil. Ecuador’s coronavirus outbreak is a grim forecast of what may await poorer countries when COVID-19 hits.
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