Inside story : the first ten years / edited by Peter Browne with Kate Manton
- Bib ID:
- 7857017
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Parkville, VIC : Grattan Street Press, 2018
- ©2018
- xvi, 388 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780648209607 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In this curated selection of essays and commentaries from the highly regarded online publication Inside Story, Australia's leading thinkers and cultural critics navigate the key issues of the past ten years. From the GFC to natural disasters, the blood, guts and tears of local leadership spills to the rise of Trump, this collection of experts write with insight and passion on one of the most preposterous decades in history. With pieces by Frank Bongiorno, Maria Tumarkin, Sophie Black, Jack Latimore, Graeme Dobell, Andrew Dodd, Rodney Tiffen and many more, Inside Story: the first ten years speaks into the news-cycle roar with the incisive analysis of a nation talking to itself.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Witnesses:
- François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance / Shino Konishi
- We have still not lived long enough / Tom Griffiths
- Shoulder-deep in the entrails / Shane Maloney
- Beyond the easy life of gods / Annika Lems
- Humane and sympathetic eye of Sam Hood / Richard Johnstone
- Mitchell, Murdoch and me / Peter Brent
- Piccoli prescription / Tom Greenwell
- Breakfast in America / Graeme Dobell
- Looking for trouble / Margaret Simons
- Lives and times:
- Remembering and forgetting / Maria Tumarkin
- From ubiquitous to obsolete / Anna Cristina Pertierra
- Dick Casey's forgotten people / Stephen Mills
- Fletch, muscles and the rocket / Jock Given
- Forty millenia of indigenous history at the British Museum / Maria Nugent
- Who's coming? / Bronwyn Carlson
- Education consequences of the peace / Dean Ashenden
- 'Now, where were we ...?' / Andrew Dodd
- Speaking into the silence / Drusilla Modjerra
- Power and politics:
- Switching off / Judith Brett
- Everyday politics of perpetual electioneering / James Panichi
- Margaret Thatcher: between myth and politics / David Hayes
- Real Julia / Sara Dowse
- Liberal nonconformist from Sydney's west / Robert Milliken
- Former leader's advice: in a crisis, have the courage to break with the past / Tim Colebatch
- 'We're not just looking at who's telling the stories, but the stories we're choosing to tell' / Sophie Black
- Sam Dastyari and the thousands of years of Chinese history / Antonia Finnane
- Great assenters / Jeremy Gans
- Class and crisis:
- Queen and the perfect bicycle / Timothy J Sinclair
- Politics of compassion / Klaus Neumann
- Two suburbs, 167 lives: how the Life Chances Study turned twenty-one / Melissa Sweet
- Remarkable persistance of power and privilage / Andrew Leigh
- 'Australia has brought out things about myself that I thought wouldn't exist / Peter Mares
- In the name of the people / Rodney Tiffen
- Has liberalism forgotten what it does best? / Rob Hoffman
- Coming boom in inherited wealth / John Quiggin
- Jumping the gate / Jack Latimore
- Cruelist option / Tessa Morris-Suzuki
- Up to a point, Professor Hamilton / Frank Bongiorno
- America's deadly exceptionalism / Lesley Russell
- Creators:
- Lucking into the zeitgeist / Iain Topliss
- Women behaving badly / Jill Kitson
- Silence made visible / Sylvia Lawson
- Peter Sculthorpe, a composer in Australia / Andrew Ford
- On literary awards / Susan Lever
- Once were a weird mob / Brett Evans
- John Clarke and the power of satire / Matthew Ricketson
- Between the covers / Diana Bagnall
- Lost portrait / Sylvia Martin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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