Books
A romp among the bastards
Steve Lewis and his press gallery comrade poured a delicious suite of political anecdotes into their fictional take on Canberra
One man's price of free speech
Salman Rushdie’s memoir of a decade in hiding from a fatwa is a message from the frontline in the
Summer reading
Finally have time to sit down with a book? The long-list finalists in the Walkley Book Award are som
Blog in a teacup?
Chris Warren thinks bloggers and social media can add depth to the Australian political debate, but
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The shaming of the Screws
30 October 2012A vivid account of the depredations that led to the downfall of the News of the World makes for compelling reading writes Alan Kennedy.
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Give me a tome where the journalist roams
26 October 2012There’s a whole world beyond Washington’s Beltway, and Peter Ryan is glad Michael Brissenden found it.
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Defending your right to offend me
2 August 2012Free speech and open debate are never guaranteed, says Pádraig Reidy
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A daughter's voice
30 May 2012Alan Kennedy shares a book about a father and daughter that everyone should read
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The last rich nation standing
10 May 2012Here’s a good start to a political parlour game. Who said this? “Few predicted the extent of the present world recession. For a period we in Australia were fortunate not to feel its full effect.”
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Ballad of Goulburn Jail
4 May 2012Alan Kennedy recognises that Raymond Fitzpatrick and journalist Frank Browne were an unlovely pair, but what federal parliament did to them in 1955 was a scandal
