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"It was a matter of interest to me that many Australian academics seemed to think the only creative works of any consequence in South-East Asia were novels set in villages or kampongs, presented mostly in a simplistic way by decent but essentially parochial storytellers about deprivations referable to callous European rule"
In his latest book, Fact and Fiction, Nicholas Hasluck draws upon the diaries he kept while serving as a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. These provide not only a picture of judicial life but also an account of writing Dismissal, his novel about the final days of the Whitlam government. What follows are thoughts and recollectionss on the events of and before November 11, 1975
Ahead of the referendum, what would a Voice to Parliament mean for the country’s legislature and its mining industry?
There is much to be had in Che's Last Embrace despite being a relatively slim volume. A page-turner and rollicking read, Nicholas Hasluck also offers us a paradigm for the nonsense that can pass for intellectual thinking in current Australian culture. Overall, as many critics have previously observed, this is a further demonstration of his perspicacity as a writer
Pamphlets written by politicians and published by the AEC have put the official case for a yes and no vote. They were not independently factchecked before publication, so Guardian Australia has added notes to the full essays to help you make better sense of them