How are Australian intellectuals going?Australia’s had an uneasy relationship with its intellectuals, but they are becoming more involved with recent mainstream public debate, from bushfires to anti-terror laws, writes Nick Bryant.
Intellectuals
Doctors and terror: an established pathology
With every doctor in the west named Patel or Habib now facing the prospect that their patients will be staring carefully at their white coats, checking for the outlines of a bomb-jacket, much bewilderment has been expressed at the juxtaposition of the healing profession and the delivery of death.
