State Library of Victoria
- A Ferry into the Past
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Blue. Lo and behold, in the State Library of New South Wales was a portrait in oils done in 1834 ... to New South Wales stated that he was 29 and was “a Jamaican Negro sailor”, a description that told me he ... for the American colonies was lost in 1781. While Blue did not state his place of birth, his daughter Susannah, who ...
The Monthly - Cassandra Pybus - 2012-05-01 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Long Goodbye: Explaining Gillard’s Collapse
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which is based upon the fortnightly Newspoll, is used to demonstrate the presently parlous state ... in terms of seats and votes—with Victoria and maybe Tasmania slightly moderating the trend—ominously, ... and Victoria but was, on balance, popular. The home insulation program, however, did the government ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments
- Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals
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to death. “These types of dogs have lost their right to exist in Victoria,” said the state’s agriculture ...
The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-03-13 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Flag of Convenience
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their flag is missing. Pyalong is in central Victoria, loosely suspended between Tooborac and Tallarook. ... the Neighbourhood House volunteers resign themselves to using the Victorian state flag. Peter Hoskins, who ventured ...
The Monthly - Alice Pung - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Reluctant Son
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stated three weeks ago: “Rupert has said he’d be thrilled to have Lachlan back.” The real question ... he had bumped into the then premiers of NSW and Victoria, Bob Carr and Steve Bracks, and both of them ... and then News Corp chief Peter Chernin, began undermining Lachlan soon after his arrival in the United States ...
The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Angry Boys
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The Family Table Restaurant is a small, dingy diner in Atlantic, Iowa, the state known as the Hawkeye State ... and current state governors who flirted with the idea: Chris Christie (New Jersey); Jeb Bush, brother ... more than 3 million houses foreclosed on since the end of the housing boom in 2006, municipal libraries ...
The Monthly - Julia Baird - 2012-02-07 16:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Divided We Fall
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state and local green groups, some of which had been active for 20 years. The Democrats never had ... with the balance of power; 24 state and territory MPs; two Cabinet posts and partnership in a coalition government ... Labor in Victoria in 2010, denying the Greens four possible lower house seats. Bandt may be able ...
The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
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of rabid populist conservatism into the political culture of the United States; Assange’s ... libraries. He did, however, attend very many schools. According to Dreyfus, by the time Mendax was fifteen he ... I spent a single day attending.” One of the schools Julian attended was in rural Victoria ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Order is Everything
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The State Library of Victoria’s Card Catalogue ... Library (precursor to the State Library of Victoria), besides grumbling over a shortage of seats ... in the State Library of Victoria’s catalogue – hundreds of thousands of them – keyed into a computer database. ...
The Monthly - Robyn Annear - 2011-09-02 15:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Hard Times
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and wide across Australia, long trips on slow dirt roads, as far as Shepparton, Victoria, doing seasonal ... but she’s not responsible with Michaela when she’s in a drunk state. And she knows it.” What would happen ...
The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: Phoney Education
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a tram. The modern phone combines all the qualities of a library, a university and a Swiss Army knife. ... perceptions, conceptions, feelings and intentions is a state of achievement. Scaffolding is one of the major ... the library for the knowledge to be found in it. Maybe the scaffolding had a flaw, but after five years ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-12-05 08:04 - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- CanDo? Campbell Newman’s Bid for Queensland
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in charge not only in Canberra but also in every state and territory. Just a few bus stops away, Brisbane ... 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
- The Life Not Lived
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Library. After delivering the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library in 1985, McKenzie was considered ... in an advanced state of paranoia, surrounded by enemies. By night I worked as a nightclub bouncer. I returned ... in a magnificent old sleeping car, high, wide and stately, finished in polished wood and brass and fitted ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- No One Comes To See Me Now
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The books had been bequeathed to the Mitchell Library, but they too were to remain in the house for as long ... the house, but it was unmistakable, perhaps because of a heritage order, a compromise after the state ...
The Monthly - Debra Adelaide - 2012-01-20 08:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What We Learned in Copenhagen
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conference. They were scheduled to attend a state dinner at Christiansborg Palace, deliver a prepared speech ... a miracle. But a miracle was not looking likely. As Obama took his seat, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, summarised the state of play. “Mr President,” Clinton said, “this is the worst meeting I’ve been ...
The Monthly - Andrew Charlton - 2011-11-28 09:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Notes on Evidence Given to the Media Inquiry
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of the state-wide and national newspaper market by a single corporation, News Limited, posed a threat to the health ... Parliamentary Library . Such a concentration of press ownership situation was not merely risible; ... assets to wield political influence. Fox News in the United States had a very important influence within ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-11-29 13:39 - 4 comments - 3 attachments
- Caught in the Game
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to prohibit bookmakers from advertising in one state and operating in another. Suddenly there were no state ... folklore.” Everything was happening at once. Victoria introduced legislation requiring bookmakers ... in Victoria. Kennett also juggles his role as the chairman of beyondblue, whose website tells us three out ...
The Monthly - Jonathan Horn - 2011-11-04 15:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Water Under the Bridge
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replaced the hapless Mike Taylor, is already passing the buck by saying that two states, New South Wales and Victoria, are hindering the release of the plan. “The people of Australia expect a partnership,” said ... There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice ...
The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-10-07 13:05 - 14 comments - 0 attachments
- Queen of the Night
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looking – as she glowered through a jewelled veil – like Queen Victoria masquerading as the madam ... of Umbrellas in Leicester she spent time in a local library investigating Boadicea’s last battle, which ... David Bowie, Energy, Feminism, Germany, Jazz, Library, Theatre, University of Melbourne) ...
The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-10-06 12:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Bolt Factor
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I met the former belly dancer at Mr Tulk, the buzzy cafe inside the State Library of Victoria ... minister of state in the Gillard government), then on the staff of NT Opposition leader Bob Collins, making ... was in a state of near collapse with administrative and financial problems; for a time Bolt was acting general ...
The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Ned Kelly Unearthed: New discoveries and explorations
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State Library of Victoria ... of the Glenrowan siege, historian Clare Wright chairs this State Library of Victoria discussion of how the Kelly ... and Elizabeth Marsden, Collections Manager at the Police Museum. State Library of Victoria, November 2009 ...
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- Ned Kelly Unearthed: New discoveries and explorations (p2)
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State Library of Victoria ... Clare Wright chairs this State Library of Victoria discussion of how the Kelly legend is evolving. She ... Manager at the Police Museum. State Library of Victoria, November 2009 ...
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- Ned Kelly Unearthed: New discoveries and explorations (p3)
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State Library of Victoria ... Clare Wright chairs this State Library of Victoria discussion of how the Kelly legend is evolving. She ... Manager at the Police Museum. State Library of Victoria, November 2009 ...
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- The Magic of Exile
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a show-off with no voice, a nobody in a new land. By day he worked in the British Library on the great novel ... scriptwriter and is failing in a last public mission: to persuade the United States to allow the SS St Louis ...
The Monthly - David Marr - 2011-09-29 10:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Limiting Freedom: China and human rights today. John Garnaut
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Presented by the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law (Monash University), State Library of Victoria, July ...
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