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Where is that cheeky elf? Holiday time in Australia
Where is that cheeky elf? Holiday time in Australia
Your Top 10 on The Interpreter in 2023
Your Top 10 on The Interpreter in 2023
Never forget the light-hearted moments. Like that time one of Australia’s most accomplished international law experts, Professor Donald R Rothwell, wrote about the…
Manila’s killing fields: Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on the poor
Manila’s killing fields: Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on the poor
Book review: Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder In My Country by Patricia Evangelista (Penguin Random House, 2023) “When I become president, when I take my oath of…
The Fix: Nationalist theatre, with a twist
The Fix: Nationalist theatre, with a twist
We’re asking contributors to put together their own collected observations like this one – and as always, if you’ve got an idea to pitch for The Interpreter, drop a line via the…
Espionage top ten
Espionage top ten
Australian spooks are not a literary lot. The secret services of Britain and the United States have spawned many spy fiction authors, but we are still waiting for a domestic John…
University challenge: Caption contest winners
University challenge: Caption contest winners
Presenting the results from a fun little contest to give university students a chance to win tickets to the 2023 Lowy Lecture and Dinner. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will…
The Fix: A death in Malta
The Fix: A death in Malta
We’re asking contributors to put together their own collected observations like this one – and as always, if you’ve got an idea to pitch for The Interpreter, drop a line via the…
Tales from the magic circle
Tales from the magic circle
Book review: Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe by Joachim C. Häberlen (Allen Lane, 2023) By chance, the legendary Italian intellectual…
The Fix: Simple history is never simplistic
The Fix: Simple history is never simplistic
We’re asking contributors to put together their own collected observations like this one – and as always, if you’ve got an idea to pitch for The Interpreter, drop a line via the…
China and Taiwan are big Pacific donors – but not for gender equality
China and Taiwan are big Pacific donors – but not for gender equality
This year, Lowy Institute researchers used Pacific Aid Map data among other sources to ascertain how much aid has been spent on gender equality initiatives in the Pacific between…