But part of the significance of the enclosing frame is what it keeps at bay: the best Anderson films also suggest a darker, more chaotic world that lies beyond. The Phoenician Scheme is set in 1950, ...

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As the Nats formally walked back into the coalition on Wednesday, leader David Littleproud took a swipe at the “gossip and backgrounding” of the past week. Alluding to leadership rumblings over how he ...

Dutton in particular, with his longstanding tendency to get sidetracked by niche ideological crusades and his conviction that punching down on minorities delivers electoral nirvana, was precisely the ...

“I’m very strongly of the belief that we are a country united under one flag,” Peter Dutton told Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News a few weeks before voters issued their verdict. “If we’re asking people to ...

Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World, landed in my mailbox on the same day Donald Trump announced ...

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When Didier Eribon’s mother was eighty-seven, he and his estranged brothers placed her in a nursing home in Fismes, near ...