and left me in charge of our vegetable garden and their dog. Excellent. I would spend the summer reading ... down, stop, stay. He was an outside dog. The family drove away. I moved his gear from their back ...

The Monthly - Helen Garner - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

be concentrating on the match and not that big woolly black dog over there. But it’s not just a cricket field, and the black dog isn’t the only distraction. There’s another group of children staging a highly organised ...

The Monthly - Malcolm Knox - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

wonder is happily unkempt – a cross between handsome lad and friendly dog – and while he does look ...

The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

doppelganger of the shaggy-dog-tale source material and an acerbic satire on filmmaking and its discontents. ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2012-05-03 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In World War I, trained ‘mercy dogs’ roamed among the wounded on the battlefields of France. A soldier ... rescued him from a shelled French farmhouse. Duncan, a dog-trainer, took Rinty home to the United States, where the dog’s spectacular physical prowess and pensive expression (“as if he were viewing with charity ...

The Monthly - Michelle de Kretser - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the African boy, Idrissa (Blondin Miguel), takes shelter in Marcel’s shed and lies shivering beside the dog ... of blues. When man, boy and dog rest together in the concrete yard, their quiet mood seems to issue from ... is wearing a buttercup yellow jumper. The dog’s head and Marcel’s jacket are comfort-brown. But almost ...

The Monthly - Helen Garner - 2012-05-10 16:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Underwater dogs (image gallery) Not Editors Choice Friday, 17 February ... (Dogs, Photography, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-17 14:21 - 0 comments

on the footpath ahead of me, a large black dog appeared, bright red collar around its neck. No owner to be seen. ... cocked our heads at one another and then the dog picked up my pace and trotted alongside.  Together we ... me, leaving the dog on the footpath. I dropped my hand over the fence, scratching its head, ...

The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-03-13 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of attack dogs – Andrew Bolt, Piers Akerman, Miranda Devine, Tim Blair et hoc genus emerge from ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-07 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and Bob and Paul and John, other than insecurity, is a dogged refusal to concede fault. ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2012-03-07 15:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

happened,” he says, breaking my gaze to watch the playful nosings of his dog, Polly, on the back terrace ...

The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

behind a hunting dog. She was tall, blonde and had a swimmer’s shoulders. Over her black slacks she wore ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-02-07 16:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

is a sprawling inner-city wilderness that extends for kilometres, a place of bike riders, dog walkers, giant ... to “get out of your car and walk about”. As a dutiful dog walker I have been an observer of the beat ...

The Monthly - Sonya Hartnett - 2012-02-07 15:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

demands that one mate tell the other when someone’s dogging him – that is, unless the one doing the dogging is also a mate. In such cases the normal thing is to hang out with a different set of mates till ... there are people dogging you. There are people saying America’s hollowed out like a walnut with weevils: ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-02-23 14:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of dog-whistle politics as megaphone politics. His comments also provide another vital clue for his lurch ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

any public discussion of his impending trial. In 1994 he offered to assist the director of Dogs ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

seriously ill people reside in the house. You wouldn’t let your dog set foot in the place – not if you liked your dog. They say they mop the floors and try to keep it clean but they can’t win the battle. Some ...

The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the park, where for years he and White had walked their dogs. The pair had always kept dogs, but now Mr ... past the tree-cluttered view towards the park where they once walked the dogs and where White’s ashes ... in the light – even parked in the street I could see that. And as I pulled away from the kerb a dog rose up ...

The Monthly - Debra Adelaide - 2012-01-20 08:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

it actually do, besides shit and give people germs? It’s not like a dog, is it? It’s not even like a cat.” ... shouts. “Tommo, you killed it!” Tom goes down to his hands and knees. Shock has him like a dog ...

The Monthly - Sonya Hartnett - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

dogged to make the Australian team.” That doggedness would serve him well when a chronic back injury ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

a political freak, a class traitor or perhaps a masochist? Of course he does. It’s a man-bites-dog story, ...

The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

share of attention. Competition name ‘Sleykh Cacao Chuao’, street name ‘Cino’, the little dog ... that likes its dogs neat and rare. Like the dingo, the basenji, the Canaan and the New Guinea Singing Dog, the podengo is a primitive breed, a dog whose evolution has had scant human influence and that retains many ...

The Monthly - Sonya Hartnett - 2011-11-04 15:10 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

narrator on this stuff. Because we all have a dog in this fight." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-19 13:33 - 0 comments

phones or laptops”), the fun he has with his “wonderful, wonderful dog, Winston”, his chickens ...

The Monthly - MJ Hyland - 2011-12-13 15:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

quiet. Birds, people, dogs were saving their energy. We were at the Queensland border, defined here ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-15 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments