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The Monthly Essays
Louis Nowra
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
I set out to watch most of the Australian films released this year because I wanted to grasp the...
Tony Roberts
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November 2009
In 1881, a massive pastoral boom commenced in the top half of the Northern Territory, administered by...
John Birmingham
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November 2009
The Flinthart of that once-upon-a-time rarely flinched from the confronting, and occasionally violent...
The Nation Reviewed
David Marr
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Sydney’s brand new archbishop wanted money – lots and lots of money – to persuade 400,000 souls in the nation’s most sinful city “to...
Gail Bell
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November 2009
One year, in the middle of December, I received an unexpected Christmas card. Inside, the message read: “Felix and I are both...
Gay Bilson
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November 2009
It is like a sixteenth-century court: royal, papal, judicial – take your pick. The court makes its own rules and makes sure, by its self...
Benjamin Law
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November 2009
At the registration table for Lovelinx, a national conference run by a Christian organisation, an array of educational books and DVDs...
Arts Letters 2009
Louis Nowra
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
I set out to watch most of the Australian films released this year because I wanted to grasp the...
Peter Singer
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Jonathan Safran Foer is a talented novelist with a gift for writing amusingly about serious issues....
Waleed Aly
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November 2009
In the mid-1960s, a young underground band played a gig at a Catholic youth club. The promoter...
Philip Hensher
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November 2009
Peter Carey said a decade ago: “My fictional project has always been the invention or discovery of my...
Sebastian Smee
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November 2009
Janine Burke’s Source (Allen & Unwin, 400pp; $55.00) is about the inspiration and...
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It was a touch unfair of Alan Saunders to compare Underbelly and all its shortcomings with the heights of...
In the last year (11 issues) the Monthly has published a total of 198 pieces, of which 147 (74%) were...
In November, Waleed Aly paid earnest tribute to the English rock pioneers Pink Floyd (‘Obscured by Clouds’). While I...
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Louis Nowra
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
I set out to watch most of the Australian films released this year because I wanted to grasp the condition of our industry. On a...
Hugh White
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
The big story of 2009 has been the economic downturn, better known as the Global Financial Crisis, and the biggest part of that story...
Alan Saunders
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Well, at least nobody had to wear tights. We were all clad in a seemly manner – academic robes for most of us – when we stepped onto the...
Benjamin Law
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
People might flock to the Gold Coast to feel alive, but it is increasingly also a destination for the dead. Drive inland, away from the...
Amanda Lohrey
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
On a recent trip to Sydney I was urged by friends to visit a new butcher shop in the wealthy suburb of Woollahra. At ?rst I was...
Gay Bilson
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Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Early in October the broad beans began to appear, but were still so small that it was mere ritual to nip one or two off and eat them...
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