April 2008
SOCIETY
Patrick White: The final chapter
David Marr
We climbed down and after some hesitation found a spot where waves were washing through a rock pool. A couple of fishermen had lines in the...
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Running Dogs: The legal trade behind the manufacture of methamphetamines
Gail Bell
In my experience, most people needing sinus tablets take the identification requirement on the chin. It's an ID-dependent world now: you...
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ENVIRONMENT
Jackey Jackey & the Yadhaykenu
His true name is nowhere recorded, nor his date of birth. Born in the Hunter Valley around 1833, he was known to his white employer simply...
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‘Poe: A Life Cut Short’ by Peter Ackroyd
Justin Clemens
Born into poverty, sickness and vagabondage, Edgar Allan Poe was doomed from the beginning. His parents were actors, a déclassé profession...
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‘Disquiet’ by Julia Leigh
Meg Mundell
‘Gothic' is a shady word. It has lent itself to everything from fonts and architecture to subcultures and fiction. It doesn't so...
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Disappeared: Ben Kiernan’s ‘Blood and Soil’
David Day
When Kevin Rudd delivered the federal parliament's apology to the Stolen Generations, in February, there was no explicit reference to...
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Embracing the Inner Bunny: Recent books about raunch culture
Linda Jaivin
Society was awash in filth. Young women chased fantasy and titillation at the expense of their mental and physical health, not to mention...
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Gas!: Upton Sinclair’s ‘Oil!’ & Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘There Will Be Blood’
Gideon Haigh
Upton Sinclair never had much faith in the movies. When the great American socialist's novel The Moneychangers (1908) was adapted for...
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Kitchen-Table Candour: Helen Garner’s ‘The Spare Room’
Robert Dessaix
"Somebody somewhere says," Helen Garner says somewhere, "that ‘the urge to preserve is the basis of all art.' Unaware of...
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Horrible, Horrible People: Tamara Jenkins’ ‘The Savages’ & Sidney Lumet’s ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’
Luke Davies
A tradition in recent indie film is the ironic and stylised setpiece, wherein a suburban landscape is rendered with satirical hyper-clarity...
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Confounders: The CSIRO and the Total Wellbeing Diet
Geoff Russell
In late May 2005, this prestigious scientific organisation launched a diet book, The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet. Despite attracting...
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ENVIRONMENT
The Orange-Bellied Parrot
Sean Dooley
On Anzac Day in 1949, 15-year-old Len Robinson went to pay homage to a little Aussie battler. After making the considerable trip from his...
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WORLD
The Silence of the Phones
Alice Pung
"If you tell your leg to stop hurting," says the Venerable Monk, "does it listen to you?" We're not meant to look at him when he's speaking...
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ENVIRONMENT
If Those Trains Had Only Run …
Robyn Annear
God works for V/Line, the Victorian country rail service. Actually, it's God for short; full name Godfrey, he's an ex-conductor now...
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Comment
Mungo MacCallum
Banker-turned-politician-turned-commentator Professor John Hewson is very cross with the Australian media. He thinks journalists have...
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