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Recent publications
The machinery of the 2007 federal election
John Shipp reviews Inside Kevin07: The People, The Plan, The Prize by Christine Jackman (Melbourne University Press, 2008, 320 pages). If you are looking for hard-hitting political analysis of the Kevin07 campaign in the 2007 federal election,...
Biotechnology is bioterrific, not bioterrifying
Near the beginning of Richard Hindmarsh's Edging Towards BioUtopia he provides, apparently un-selfconsciously, a persuasive illustration of the chasm between scientists using rDNA techniques (the creation of artificial DNA) and critics of...
The brave new world of lifestyle capitalism
Benjamin Hourigan reviews The 4-hour Workweek: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss (Vermillion, 2008, 308 pages). 'I believe that life exists to be enjoyed and that the most important thing is to feel good about...
Shorts
Over-regulation What's wrong with doing nothing? Richard Allsop In the United Kingdom since the 1997 election of New Labour, 3,605 new criminal offences have been placed on the statute book. One can understand that there is the occasional need to...
There are few easier stories to report than a change of government
Attraction is bound to wane if it is based on who you aren't, not who you are. And so it has been with the affair between Kevin Rudd and the Canberra Press Gallery. Former Liberal leader Brendan Nelson had a go at analysing it all when he appeared...
Why Keating makes Kevin look bad
Kevin Rudd stood on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin on a fresh Canberra morning in early September and told popular breakfast presenter Melissa Doyle of Channel 7's Sunrise program how chuffed he was that Quentin Bryce would be sworn in as...