Peter Christoff

While Australian governments line up to help Adani dig the world’s biggest coal mine, energy experts are burying fossil fuels forever. Dieter Helm is an economist and professor of energy policy at Oxford. Burn Out: The endgame for fossil fuels is his ambitious, provocative, and sometimes perverse take on global energy prospects ...

When The Lucky Country was published in 1964, its cover – Albert Tucker's painting of a hat-wearing, stony-faced, beer-swilling Aussie gambler – captured its ...

Last year, two memoirs were published in Melbourne. Abraham Biderman’s The World of my Past and Mark Verstandig’s I rest my case should be read together and alongside Roman Visniac’s photographic record, A Vanished World. As intricate depictions of Polish Jewish life before the Holocaust and as intimate memorials to family and friends, they are monuments to the persistence of memory. But they also have an importance beyond that of individual recollections because of the contrasting insights they offer into the paths to, and resistance against, genocide in rural and urban Poland. Birdman, a survivor of the Lodz ghetto in a city once home to some 250,000 Jews, was incarcerated in a series of concentration camps before his ultimate release from Bergen-Belsen. Verstandig is one of the few thousand Jews who survived in hiding in the Polish countryside, which makes his account a relatively rare and important historic record.