July, 2018
Rundle: remembering the proto-hippies of Nat King Cole’s ‘Nature Boy’
, Jul 20, 2018
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Seventy years on, the reason for Nature Boy's popularity is no mystery. But the story of its origin, inspired by early hippy movements, is a little stranger.
Our history of referenda doesn’t bode well for the Voice to Parliament
, Jul 19, 2018
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Looking at the numbers, getting a Voice to Parliament won't be a case of climbing a mountain so much as climbing to the moon: an impossibility.
The instability of Labor’s latest factional stability deal
, Jul 18, 2018
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Victorian Labor's most recent factional maneuvers could hand both state and federal elections to the Liberals.
Kylie Jenner’s ‘fortune’ is just one of capitalism’s many mirages
, Jul 12, 2018
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Is Kylie Jenner really worth $900 million? What does that even mean? The question is worth posing, especially on the left.
Millions of Australian man-boys remain trapped in Nick Cave
, Jul 12, 2018
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A huge team of man-boys in their 40s, 50s and 60s have wandered into Nick Cave before the heavy weather of middle age descended.
Brexit of champions now a dog’s dinner
, Jul 10, 2018
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Is this the beginning of the end for Theresa May?
Leyonhjelm lowers libertarianism’s lure
, Jul 09, 2018
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Leyonhjelm's track record may win him a few fans, but for most, the man is a walking advertisement against a libertarian movement.
Rundle: four perfect minutes of pop music
, Jul 06, 2018
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The '70s produced numerous masterpieces, but perhaps none as singular or confounding as 'Isn't it Time'.
Ramsay Centre furore dies off along with its achingly poor logic
, Jul 05, 2018
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The Ramsay Centre seems to be all but dead in the public university, but was it ever more than political posturing?
Rundle: Bungle Bill tests the faction waters in tax backflip
, Jul 02, 2018
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Bill Shorten's much derided taxation back flip was really just a test of Labor's nebulous faction politics.