April 2009
POLITICS
Paul Keating & Jack Lang
More than 30 years after his dismissal from office, ‘The Big Fella' was little more than a historical footnote, a near-forgotten figure....
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"Things We Didn’t See Coming" by Steven Amsterdam
Emmett Stinson
Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming presents a hybrid fiction - even the blurbs at the front of the book alternately call its...
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"The Striped World" by Emma Jones
Alexandra Coghlan
Awarded Australia's prestigious Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2005 for her poem ‘Zoos for the Dead', it is with the publication of her debut...
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Clive James
Scanning the face of a crestfallen waveHe sees his life collapsing to a close,A foaming comber racing to its grave.But after that one,...
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Snow Falling on Vampires: Tomas Alfredson’s "Let the Right One In"
Luke Davies
"Just so you know: I can't be your friend," says Eli (Lina Leandersson), an ethereal, bedraggled girl, to Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a lonely...
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Thoughts in the Middle of a Career: Paul Kelly’s "Songs from the South"
Robert Forster
It can seem futile trying to chase down biographical material on Paul Kelly because, just as he's ducked the glare of mainstream pop...
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The Good Soldier: WEH Stanner & "An Appreciation of Difference"
Inga Clendinnen
WEH (‘Bill') Stanner, 1905-1981, Australian anthropologist, is known to most of us through his 1968 Boyer Lectures, titled After the...
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Seers: Recent Books about the Future
Bill Bowtell
Chris Patten, Jacques Attali and George Friedman are past masters of the politics of prediction. They are wily, skilful and powerful...
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The Pursuit of Usable Beauty: Damien Wright & His Table
Gideon Haigh
Wright is speaking in his workshop, in Melbourne's inner north, and proving difficult to interview. Not because he is inarticulate - on the...
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The King & I: Life in a Bangkok Prison
Harry Nicolaides
Compound One. For weeks I lay on my back, delirious with influenza. When I was able to stand, I shuffled around like a zombie, pushed here...
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Leigh Sales
On a rainy Monday night in Sydney's inner west, Dave Bloustien is testing new material on 50 people who have squeezed into the small...
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WORLD
Time Loop
Mungo MacCallum
By a remarkable coincidence, Australia and India share a national day: both countries have their biggest party of the year on 26 January....
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SOCIETY
The Third Wave
Tim Flannery
As I write, in mid March, a geriatric sandy-coloured rat wanders his enclosure at the Alice Springs Desert Park. Death can't be far off for...
More ...Comment: Built to Fail
Satyajit Das
At the beginning of the global financial crisis, the destruction of storied financial institutions was an entertaining blood sport: ...
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The King & I [preview]: Life in a Bangkok Prison
Harry Nicolaides
Compound One. For weeks I lay on my back, delirious with influenza. When I was able to stand, I shuffled around like a zombie, pushed here...
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