Craig Sherborne
The Nation Reviewed
The Quest for Muslim Jedis: John Safran’s new ABC TV project
Craig Sherborne
The world is up this way, just over here. Follow me. Mind your head, you are entering human nature. There are narrow tunnels of religion....
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Craig Sherborne
Bliss can never happen of its own accord. When it has been years-long away it needs some outside intervention. Narcotic versions were never...
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The Nation Reviewed
Sinking Sandbanks
Craig Sherborne
When bankers fly in to Kiribati, a fine evening spread is put on at the main hotel. Blue-cardboard ironies are erected: squat sandwich...
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Unhappy Families: Sonya Hartnett’s 'Butterfly'
Craig Sherborne
If we didn't have childhoods we'd be much better people. We'd start out as grown-ups innocent as lambs. We wouldn't have behind us all...
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Coup-Coup Land: Life Under Fiji’s Interim Government
Craig Sherborne
Even the funeral parlours here are caged, as if there's profitable trade in pawning corpses. In shop windows, houses are advertised for...
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The Nation Reviewed
The Ring Cycle
Craig Sherborne
"How do I look?" my mother asks."You look beautiful," say the nurses. "Quite the stunner, young lady." She looks every day her 84: crumpled...
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The Nation Reviewed
Trivial Pursuit
Craig Sherborne
You miss out on medicine by five points and so you dedicate your life to trivia. Don't get eccentric on us, with your pointy bald head and...
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The Nation Reviewed
Repo Man
Craig Sherborne
You might have missed it a few months ago, this amusing aside in the daily news: during the auction of a flash rural property in the old-...
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Not All Black & White: Inside New Zealand’s social laboratory
Craig Sherborne
If you think Australia and New Zealand are peas in a pod, you are mistaken.In social justice, New Zealand has, for most of its modern...
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The Nation Reviewed
Free House
Craig Sherborne
Humans love getting something for nothing. Failing that, next to nothing. Picking up a $1-million inner-city Melbourne house for a $15,000...
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