April 2007
WORLD
Robert Menzies & Winston Churchill
Robert Menzies' first trip to England was a profoundly emotional experience. At 41, Jeparit-born Bob had finally come "home". It was 1935,...
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'Bobby'
Rachel Hills
To people growing up in an era of interest-rate elections and ten-second sound-bites, odes to politicians of times past can seem as...
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Resisting the Tide: 'BA Santamaria: Your Most Obedient Servant'
David McKnight
Kevin Rudd has put religion back on the political agenda, at least as far as the op-ed pages and serious talk shows are concerned. But...
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No Wedding and a Funeral: Lucinda Williams’ 'West'
Robert Forster
We're off the highway. We were four songs in when suddenly this ugly metal guitar appeared, and now vegetation's flying past the car and...
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Extravagant Stillness: Philip Gröning’s 'Into Great Silence'
Luke Davies
"If you don't have time to read this ad, it was written for you," announces an advertisement for a philosophy course that appears in...
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Lost in the Woods: Norman Mailer’s 'The Castle in the Forest'
Inga Clendinnen
Lately I have been pursuing novelists who seem to think they are writing near-enough history, when in fact they are making it up. Now two...
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As You Like It: An interview with Geoffrey Rush
Peter Craven
Geoffrey Rush's last appearance on an Australian stage was in 2002, with Life x 3, in which he and his wife, Jane Menelaus, transfigured...
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A Death in the Harbour: Policing Australia’s northern waters
Ruth Balint
Three days after its departure, in the early hours of 28 January 2003, the Yamdena was bailed up by the HMAS Fremantle, a Royal Australian...
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The Lone Ranger: John Howard's concentration of power
Brian Toohey
Had Sir Frederick Wheeler lived to see John Howard in action as prime minister, he might have extended the timeframe to include the current...
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SOCIETY
The Real World
Charles Firth
A few years ago, I was asked to speak at the Screen Producers Association Fringe Conference, in Byron Bay. I can't remember what my area of...
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SOCIETY
Not in Translation
Malcolm Knox
When Gough Whitlam told the young Kevin Rudd to go out and get a university degree, Rudd chose to study Chinese language and history at the...
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SOCIETY
Kuru Awareness Week
Richard Cooke
The US Vice President, Dick Cheney, took an unwelcome guest home with him from his recent Australian trip. Never a healthy man (he has had...
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Comment: Corrosion of Character
Robert Manne
In early March the ABC broadcast a superb episode of The West Wing, the series about the US presidency to which many politically minded...
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