6109574 History and fiction have long made strange bedfellows. ... fiction to interrogate history. Javier Cercas' best-selling writings have ingeniously explored ... the troubled history of the American South; Kate Grenville's award-winning trilogy about life in colonial ...

SlowTV - admin - 2012-05-05 12:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

from the paws of Australia’s super-authors, and another thing entirely to trouser the folding stuff – ... in Australian history it might just be an icon of the other side of politics, Gough Whitlam, insofar as having ... Fitzgerald put it, Newman will lead a team of ministers with “ambitions which, if history is a guide, might ...

The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2012-05-03 11:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(April 2012, The Monthly Essays, Aboriginal People, Billy Blue, Biography, France, History of Australia ... of the Americas, but quite out of place in early Australia. Intrigued, I went looking for more pictures of Billy ... to fight in Germany. Reading military history had by now informed me that the war with Germany was over ...

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and the political culture of populist conservatism that overtook Australia during the Howard years might by now ... wanted to speak with him because he was almost the only senior politician in Australia who seemed willing ... to the future of the nation – the rise of China, the global politics of climate change, the need in Australia ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

by late 2013 Australia will have an Abbott government. The more contentious question is what has gone ... and the four and a half years of Rudd and Gillard. In the recent history of the Labor Party – during the period ... history. As long or middle term factors cannot explain the unpopularity of the Gillard government during ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments

The rising influence of vested interests is threatening Australia’s egalitarian social contract. ... Those brutal lines seemed to encapsulate what was then a growing sense of unease in Australia. The world ... in advanced economies over the past three decades. This is a debate Australia too must be part of. We’ve ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

disillusionment with the ethical standards and the political bias of the commercial media in Australia, one of its ... and Darwin), Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales; in part for accommodation ... those who write for example on literature or military history or Australian nineteenth century gardens. ...

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versions of the history of childhood. For historians like Lloyd deMause, childhood was a “long nightmare ... One day, puzzling over these two versions of history, I got up from my desk and went to the books ... way to the section on taboo. Flashing out to illuminate this extraordinary history and all its ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

of history. And the usurpers of their privileges and power have been, of all people, the immediate descendants ... The big changes in Australia were made not by whizzes, but by policy-driven politicians in combination ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-03-01 11:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

2010, the Labor Party lined up its cursor on Australia’s prime minister, and pressed ‘delete’. ... and deliberately about how to proceed. These were funeral arrangements. History has a quiet voice. I walked ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

an invitation to take a trip to Australia – a country that matters greatly in the struggle against global ... for quite some time. And until we crack that one both in the UK and Australia, we’re going to suffer ... through and give to Australia, as it has for America, a proper dose of free market thinking…You have ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

Australia has never come to grips. But despite this troubled history, new dynamics are drawing Australia ... Australia–India Relations ... the Australia–India relationship. The Labor Party’s agreement to sell uranium to India has removed a major impediment ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(December 2011 - January 2012, Noted, Aboriginal People, Australian History, Bill Gammage, The Biggest ...

The Monthly - James Boyce - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

in the history of modern Australia: the crew of the HMS Endeavour. * Scott Morrison presented himself ... chief executive of Tourism Australia, a one-time Liberal moderate and a devout Pentecostal. So what ... months regurgitating the phrase ‘stop the boats’ was also the managing director of Tourism Australia, who ...

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

are generally formed not by conversations with Canberra insiders but almost solely by reading history books, ... Prime Ministers – Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. Kevin Rudd governed Australia for two and a half ... political history. Julia Gillard is now leading one of the least popular. While it is logically possible ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments

Mendax. By October 1989 an attack was mounted from Australia on the NASA computer system via ... by the Princeton History Department; to Sigmund Freud, the Medusa’s Head and the castration complex; to a spoof ... in intellectual history and computer software: the invention in the mid-1970s of public-key cryptography ...

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

I thought I was at a turning point of the history of Australia.” Over the next few days, as news ... Culture, Australian Traditions, Cronulla Riots, Gender, Ghassan Hage, History of Australia, HRAFF, Human ... of linking the riots to any underlying racism in middle Australia, much less upbraiding his radio announcer ...

The Monthly - Malcolm Knox - 2011-03-16 10:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

in Central Australia when the boys – some as young as 12 – are literally grabbed up off the streets and taken ... and wide across Australia, long trips on slow dirt roads, as far as Shepparton, Victoria, doing seasonal ... is the largest town in Australia with a majority Aboriginal population, and Elliott, while smaller, also has ...

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

Richard Flanagan is one of Australia's most loved novelists - and most powerful orators. ... and freedom through the works of writers and recent history. The written version of this speech appears ...

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of Australia’s oldest and best preserved, which stand as testament to the first and second British settlements ... they looked like something else.” This got him thinking about the island’s history. “The First Fleet ... their wings – to compare with samples from both Australia and the rest of the world. “I thought ...

The Monthly - Ashley Hay - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and raw history offers a richer experience than museums or parklands can alone. So it was disappointing ... speak their history directly. The 2008 Biennale of Sydney was another flashpoint. Until ... into the heart of Australia’s darkest politics, through the pain of the artist’s body and its rank expulsions. ...

The Monthly - Fiona McGregor - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Australian journalists have a sad history of going off to Washington to be ruined. They leave home the hope ... the endless investment in unprofitable newspapers in Australia, the UK and the US all have the seamless ... stations rarely speak with one voice and can’t dictate outcomes. But if in the US, the UK or Australia you ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

on the acoustic guitar. And just as The Beatles had inspired thousands of young men across Australia to pick up ... for softer sounds as they headed out of town ‘to get it all together in the country’. Australia had its ... in this country’s cultural, political (‘It’s Time’) and musical history; where are they? The only conclusion you ...

The Monthly - Robert Forster - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

registered voters who make up Australia’s largest single electorate. No, the citywide power wielded ... belonged to Colin Barnett in Western Australia and Ted Baillieu in Victoria (soon Barry O’Farrell in New ... history also looked like it would reshape the state’s political topography. Premier Anna Bligh’s teary ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

in the five years since he was elected a senator for South Australia. He’s played a key role in killing off ... and replacing him with Tony Abbott. He’s “carved a niche as one of Australia’s leading conservative voices”, ... that I believe reflect the concerns, the hopes and I think the aspirations of mainstream Australia,” he ...

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