What are the Libs for? | Saving democracy | Saint Germaine | Bach’s dance of God
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On a mission to save democracy
Despite five prime ministers in five years and policy paralysis in Canberra, Australians don’t want to do away with democracy. They want to save it, write Travers McLeod, Sam Hurley and Allison Orr
Essays & Reportage
History could help the Liberal Party out of its malaise
Books & Arts
Books | Elizabeth Kleinhenz explores the contradictions of Australia’s most famous feminist in her new biography
Music | Dance metres and rhythms are everywhere in the music of Bach
From the archive
Extract | Billy Griffiths has won the 2018 John Mulvaney Book Award for his book, Deep Time Dreaming. Here’s an extract
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National Affairs
Poor polling figures bring to the surface old obsessions that don’t necessarily impress voters
Television | This carefully paced adaptation of My Brilliant Friend brings a corner of Naples to life
Cinema | The Children Act succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative
Books | Identities are best worn lightly and critically, argues the British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
Books | A new biography paints a nuanced picture of the man widely seen as Australia’s greatest prime minister
The weekend’s summit in Buenos Aires showed that the G20 is holding the line against Donald Trump’s attacks on the rules that govern trade
If this isn’t the latest in a series of false alarms, then Labor might finally be forced to disown the project
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