Albanese’s inaction drives his own party towards extinction

Under Anthony Albanese,Labor gives the ever stronger impression that it has never seen a corporation that it won’t prostrate itself to.

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Richard Flanagan in the kitchen with his mother,Helen,in 2005. “Making bread was my mother’s way back to her past,” he says.

Author Richard Flanagan on his mum – and one ‘vast achievement’ he’d overlooked

Replaying richly coloured memories of his mother Helen leaves the Tasmanian Booker Prize-winner overcome by regret,grief and gratitude.

  • Richard Flanagan
An artist’s impression of the new sporting stadium proposed in Hobart.

As Albanese backs an AFL stadium for Hobart,Tasmanians are living in tents

Tasmania’s new AFL stadium has become a symbol of government inaction on the poverty and homelessness that blight Australia’s smallest state

  • Richard Flanagan
The Crown of Queen Elizabeth

Perhaps,behind the crown lies nothing at all

We lie to ourselves when we indulge in a mass hysteria proclaiming that at the centre there is something greater than ourselves. But perhaps a mass hysteria is exactly what is needed to make us continue to believe that eternal lie.

  • Richard Flanagan
Scott Morrison enters the press conference on Wednesday.

Jabberwocky meets Captain Ahab as Morrison races down the rabbit hole

The nation is confronting a similar experience to Linda Blair in The Exorcist when her head does a 360-degree swivel exorcising the devil.

  • Richard Flanagan
Author Salman Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie,Charlie Hebdo,violence and cancel culture

The author’s life kept on intersecting with dramatic events that became so commonplace it is difficult to imagine how someone might stay sane and work,defining himself as a writer and not a victim.

  • Richard Flanagan
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John Howard celebrates his election victory on March 2,1996.

Morrison government’s fall marks end of Howard-era ascendancy

Every issue that defined Scott Morrison’s downfall had deep roots in John Howard’s prime ministership.

  • Richard Flanagan