Public Address 20/08/04 - Resigned To It ...

Friday, 20 August 2004, 10:42 am
Column: HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

PUBLIC ADDRESS 20/08/04 - Resigned to it ...

Going, going, but never off the island | Aug 19, 2004 22:09
GUEST: Graham Reid's many things

These are thoroughly confusing times. For years we were led to believe by women's magazines that Suzanne Paul was, like, really-really rich. But now we learn she's having to the flog the silverware to find a paltry $1.2 million...
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Imagining ourselves together | Aug 19, 2004 22:02
GUEST: Che Tibby's view from Melbourne

There's a reasonably famous book by a guy called Hans Morgenthau that tends to be quoted within the ranks of International Relations theorists. Nine times out of ten his post WW2 book Politics Among Nations is paraphrased with the mantra "power is politics", a neat abbreviation of a single idea...
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