April 2006
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Mungo MacCallum
fac-tion n.1. A form of literature or film-making that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses real people or events...
More ...Winning Slowly
Clive James
“The secret,” said Niki Lauda, “is to win going as slowly as possible.” This remark is sometimes attributed to another and even greater...
More ...Crying Games
Edward Scheer
As viewers of this year’s Australian Open tennis tournament and the recent Commonwealth Games can attest, sportspeople crying on camera is...
More ...SOCIETY
Jefferson Country Dreaming
Chloe Hooper
Travelling on Interstate 64 through the heartland of Virginia, a sign appears: The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Exiting the...
More ...Auditory Hallucinations
Gideon Haigh
As the barbecue sizzled at a Thursday-night training session of the Yarras a few weeks ago, the club secretary produced a bulging envelope...
More ...Truth, Death & Diplomacy in East Timor: A Commission’s Report Confirms Australian Duplicity & Cowardice
Mark Aarons
As the recent report of East Timor’s Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation demonstrates, his country got both.The 2500-page...
More ...The Middle-Class Steeplechase
Malcolm Knox
My dear Callum and Lilian,You entered our hearts identically, 15 months apart, as affirmative lines on a pregnancy test in your Uncle David...
More ...The Outsider: Now Who’s ‘The One’? Kerry Stokes: the Fun Begins at Seven
John Birmingham
Having ventured once before across the boundary between life and death – to famously declare that there was fucking nothing there – the big...
More ...CULTURE
I Advance Masked: 'Volte Face: Mike Parr Prints & Pre-Prints 1970–2005'
Justin Clemens
Even before you enter the gallery, you hear Mike Parr breathing. His breath is neither relaxed nor comfortable; amplified beyond human...
More ...CULTURE
Truth, Lies, Madness: MJ Hyland’s 'Carry Me Down'
Peter Craven
Maria Hyland came to prominence a couple of years ago with How the Light Gets In, the mesmerising story of a Bad Girl who is always proving...
More ...'Flight and Here Lies Love' at the Adelaide Festival of Arts
Dennis Altman
The program of almost any major opera company reveals a repertoire largely unchanged for over a century: there are more likely to be...
More ...The Horror Inside: David Cronenberg’s 'A History of Violence'
Owen Richardson
A History of Violence: the phrase can be taken two ways, both as something a person – a criminal in the dock – might have, and as a...
More ...The Exford Dregs: Augie March’s 'Moo, You Bloody Choir'
Robert Forster
In the narrow confines of the Australian music scene, it’s edgy guitar pop and rock for the young, and country, blues and folk for the old...
More ...Mercedes Australian Fashion Week
Clare Barker
On 26 April, the eleventh Mercedes Australian Fashion Week will open in Sydney, complete with shiny new operators IMG Fashion – the slick...
More ...'The Resurrectionist' by James Bradley
Cameron Woodhead
With The Resurrectionist, James Bradley enters the dark realm of Gothic fiction. Set in London in the 1820s, the novel concerns Gabriel, a...
More ...Malcolm Turnbull & Conrad Black
The meeting had been in progress for five hours when Conrad Black strode into Kerry Packer’s sumptuous suite at the Savoy.It was June 1991...
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