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The Uses of Music

Marc Hiatt interrogates the arguments used to support the Australian National Academy of Music

Learning from the Environmentalism of the Poor

Sunita Narain argues for a more logical and democratic answer to the world’s environmental problems.

Now for Iran

Jeremy Salt exposes the interests that lie behind calls for a strike against Iran.

The Great American Emptiness

Guy Rundle follows Barack Obama down to the river.

Saving Art’s Face?

In the wake of the Bill Henson affair, Robert Nelson argues that artists provide perspectives that let us recognise the relativity among things that society otherwise deems axiomatic.

G20 — The Legal Aftermath

Victoria Stead sees an attempt to depoliticise protest behind the extraordinary charges brought against the G20 arrestees.

Knowledge Now: Its Unintended Consequences

Geoff Sharp identifies the university as the new engine of neo-liberal capitalism and asks if we are in touch with the unintended consequences of this historic alliance.

Burma’s Hidden Heroes, Burma’s Shame

Joan Robinson documents the plight of Burma’s political prisoners

East Timor – Liturgy of the Free

Louise Byrne attends a mass with a difference at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s