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Interpreting the Classics

November 16, 2009 – 12:15 pm

David Burchell’s tenuous and largely incoherent column evaluating Kevin Rudd through the prism of Homer’s epic tales has me thinking – what other tenuous links can we build between the classics and contemporary Australian politics? Let’s use this thread to connect literary tales, themes and characters with our modern-day leaders. Here’s my opening effort:
Antony and [...]

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Theme detected (maybe)

August 31, 2009 – 7:46 am

I’m struggling to work out if there’s a theme to The Australian’s commentary on the government’s Building the Education Revolution program. Here’s Glenn Milne in today’s edition:
In political terms Gillard went too far on Friday. Her sin was to try to pass off a $1.5 billion blowout in her Pyongyang-inspired Building the Education Revolution program [...]