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When I began my working life at the late and lamented Department of Trade and Resources I was still fresh from poring over The Crisis in Australian Capitalism by the economics journalist Peter ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another seems to take place in a continuous present, even though there is a sixteen-year gap between the opening scenes and the latter part of the film.

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