April 2011
WORLD
Comment: The Anzac Spirit
Sally Neighbour
The tone, almost invariably, is one of awed and sentimental reverence, descending at times into jingoistic puffery. Without question, the...
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WORLD
George W Bush & John Newcombe
For the Bushes, tennis was the family game, like touch football had been for the Kennedys. Olympic players and Davis Cup captains fed the...
More ...'Against Remembrance' By David Rieff
Maria Tumarkin
In the last decade of the twentieth century American journalist David Rieff was in Bosnia covering the war. His mother, the late Susan...
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SOCIETY
'Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory' By Patrick Wilcken
Michelle de Kretser
In 1938 an obscure French anthropologist, sporting a topee and with a monkey clinging to his boot, led an expedition into deepest Brazil....
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WORLD
Triumph of the Kill: Susanne Bier’s 'In a Better World' and Denis Villeneuve’s 'Incendies'
Luke Davies
In Susanne Bier’s In a Better World (in national release on 21 April) – this year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film – there’s a...
More ...Case Histories: Hans Keilson’s 'The Death of the Adversary' and 'Comedy in a Minor Key'
Inga Clendinnen
Hans Keilson, a retired psychiatrist of German birth who lives in Amsterdam, was four months away from his one-hundred-and-first birthday...
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CULTURE
To the Heart: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s 'Rrakala'
Robert Forster
Elcho Island is 560 kilometres from Darwin, off the north-east Arnhem Land coast. A strong musical community there has produced members of...
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The Old Boy: Knox Grammar’s Adrian Nisbett
Malcolm Knox
Knox Grammar, on Sydney’s upper North Shore, was and is a beautiful school. Established in 1924, it feels as if it has been around forever...
More ...Postcolonial Blues: East Timor’s Lost Generation
Jill Jolliffe
Known as generation foun (‘the new generation’), Lemos’ contemporaries are remembered principally for staging the pro-independence...
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SOCIETY
Out of Bounds: Sex and the AFL
Anna Krien
Proclaiming to be speaking on behalf of all women mistreated by footballers, she had in January attended St Kilda’s first training session...
More ...Chariots of Fire: Tony Blair’s Legacy
Lindsay Tanner
Ten years later, Blair stepped down, exhausted and diminished. Bullied out of office by a relentless rival, a ravenous media and the...
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SOCIETY
Who’s Afraid of Marcia Langton?
Peter Robb
Marcia Langton has a longer and more various history than Pearson, and is a lot harder to place. She is 14 years older, a grandmother...
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CULTURE
The Bird Man and Mrs Gluck: A Kings Cross Identity
Delia Falconer
The parks of my Sydney childhood are disappearing: their secret shades, old plantings and narrow paths almost all gone now, as the City of...
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CULTURE
Inside the Pillbox: Bullying in the Workplace
Gail Bell
I ought to be well beyond 3 am revenge plots against the workplace bully but when it’s too hot to sleep and the frog outside my window is...
More ...Comment: The ALP Afterlife
Julian Morrow
Within a week of resigning as Finance Minister, as well as accepting an academic posting Lindsay Tanner became a special adviser to “pre-...
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