Marr finds strange patterns that will recur: a tendency to chaos
and what might be the cost of our Anzac obsession
heartfelt book about family
He also raises the question of whether Australia's contemporary treatment of refugees has anything in common with the sane and decent policies that have characterised the better moments in our history
and the University of Melbourne
On Helen Garner by Sean O'Beirne evidence-based-policy Marr finds strange patterns thatWhat I love in Helen Garners writing is a particular kind of closeness to self, the good, greedy, mistaken, emotional, fierce, sceptical, changing and disrupting self. Garner makes so much from what seems to be just her individual sense, individual observation rather than anything made by and for the group. But I also love the beautiful strong contradiction in her work: shes always fighting to come back enough, as well, to find enough that can stop