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Quarterly essay
Flannery: Hadley concocted story on my waterside home
Of all the responses to Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay on The Australian it is the letter from Tim Flannery published in the latest edition that adds the juiciest grist to the mill.
Guy Rundle: The Oz can’t leave the Manne essay alone
For a paper that has declared “the subject closed”, The Australian really can’t leave Robert Manne’s “Bad News” essay alone. To say there has been a degree of score settling is something of an understatement.
Rundle: a collector’s piece for the ages, The Oz on Manne
Get ye to a newsagent and see if they have not returned their copies of The Weekend Australian. Its outrageous defence of Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay is a collectors’ item.
The Oz playing the Manne: why it’s a barracker and a bully
The Australian is launching a major response to Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, and the blurbs tell us that there will be more to come on Saturday, with the usual suspects lining up to respond.
Crikey Says: The Oz has a private moment with itself
There is no subject that obsesses The Australian more than the subject of The Australian itself. Today it began an orgy of self-defence to Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay.
Manne’s Quarterly Essay: silence so far from The Oz
Robert Manne’s account of the influence of The Australian and the tactics it uses to promote its conservative views and discredit its enemies has so far been met with silence from Holt Street.
Smart summer reading: George Megalogenis’ ‘Trivial Pursuit’
One of the strongest impressions that Megalogenis’s Quarterly Essay Trivial Pursuit conveys is that no one in the current parliament is motivated by anything resembling a political idea, as opposed to, say, a vague sense that ideas are … probably a good thing, writes Bryan Cooke.
Love’s letter lost: Malcolm Turnbull’s dead cat scrawl unearthed
I have a copy of the letter that young Malcolm Turnbull wrote to his ex-girlfriends cat, reports The Justinian’s Richard Ackland.
Talking the Town: Talking the town: Turnbull tales and Gillard among the chosen
Julia Gillard has revealed that she relaxes by reading “very bad” detective novels, walking on the beach and “going out to dinner with friends, the usual things,” writes Margot Saville.
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