August 2006
WORLD
Comment: Situation Ethics
Don Watson
When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed on 7 June, US military officials first said that he was dead when they found him, which is no less...
More ...A Word from Deakin
Mungo MacCallum
Strange are the twists of Fate.As a young man and an aspiring politician I was an avid believer in the power of Spiritualism. Indeed, so...
More ...The View from the Bridge
Ashley Hay
It’s a cold wet winter day in Sydney and the famous grey of the city’s famous bridge seems to have leached out into everything around it....
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MEDIA
Sam I Am
David Salter
“OK, Salter. Now, tell me again why the hell I’m doing this.”Sam Chisholm, perfectly presented in black trousers, crisp white shirt and...
More ...Jacques’ Park
Kate van den Boogert
John Howard didn’t make it to Paris for the official opening of the Musée de Quai Branly (MQB), nor for the following morning’s traditional...
More ...Beloved Companheiros: What happened in East Timor
Mark Aarons
José Ramos Horta’s appointment as prime minister, on 8 July, has – for the time being, at least – brought a measure of stability to East...
More ...WORLD
Yes, Virginia, there is a Clash of Civilisations: Islamism, Islamophobia and Australia
Robert Manne
Unlike all previous migrant groups – Stone, who was once an anti-Asian Hansonite, now sang hymns of praise to his “nice” Chinese neighbours...
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Big Sushi: The world’s most politically sensitive lunch
Justin McCurry
I was expecting to have to chew each piece of meat into submission before I could swallow it, along with my moral reservations, but raw...
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The Optimism of People Standing on the Edge of the Grave: Vasily Grossman’s 'Life and Fate" & "A Writer at War'
Gideon Haigh
When the KGB called on Vasily Grossman in February 1961, it was on a mission like no other. Life and Fate, his unpublished novel of World...
More ...Let’s Get Our Hands Dirty: ABC TV’s 'Gardening Australia'
Kerryn Goldsworthy
“But that’s what this program’s about. It’s about action, and the sheer beauty of it,” said Peter Cundall recently in his introductory...
More ...SOCIETY
The Rules of Engagement: Paul Greengrass’s 'United 93'
Helen Garner
On a lovely autumn morning in early September 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark, bound for San Francisco. Among its...
More ...God Save His Soul: The Sleepy Jackson's 'Personality: One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird'
Robert Forster
It happened the old-fashioned way, by hearing the single first. ‘God Lead Your Soul’, it’s called. You play it once and think, That’s a...
More ...Rembrandt 1606–1669: From the Prints and Drawings Collection: NGV International, to 24 September
Justin Clemens
In the late sixteenth century, the Dutch – inhabitants of a derisory artificial country – started to punch seriously above their weight....
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POLITICS
David Combe & Valery Ivanov
Shane Maloney
When Labor won the 1983 election, David Combe thought he had it made. As ALP national secretary he’d put the party apparatus on a...
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