December 2005 - January 2006
Lilypad of the Arafura: Australia's last frontier society is long gone. So what's next for the city of Darwin?
Tony Clifton
When I went back in September both the Northern Territory Chief Minister, Clare Martin, and local historian Mickey Dewar used the word “...
More ...Enough Already!: Archbishop Peter Jensen, surprise scouge of John Howard and Malcolm Turnbull, has a vision of a country and a Liberal Party more
Andrew West
On the morning of June 29, two days before John Howard’s government sealed its control of the Australian parliament by assuming a majority...
More ...WORLD
Mr. Huge: Alan Woods and his amazing computer. A nags-to-riches-story
Tony Wilson
I shook down a plastic pig – fat, pink, traditional – while Dad explained once again about Tommy and Phar Lap and how Phar Lap had died in...
More ...How Many Sleeps?: Nothing prepares a parent for the day their partner does a runner and takes the children.
John King
“We only get two sleeps a week, sweetheart.” Meekly I attempt to explain again to her, my daughter, something about court orders.“No,” she...
More ...The 2005 Chutzpah Awards
Shane Maloney
WINNER!Wendi Deng: Role ModelThe Tower of Murdoch is no place for the faint-hearted. Potentates quail before its might and the tribute of...
More ...Feeling Frisky: Everywhere is anywhere when you travel these days, whether it's invasions or gardening shows.
Robert Dessaix
The image that first flashed onto the TV screen that evening was of Peter Cundall, the lovable talking garden gnome from Gardening...
More ...Betrayals of Faith: The writings of Alex Miller
Drusilla Modjeska
In a recent interview, Alex Miller told a story about a friend called Max Blath coming to visit him. It was years ago, before he’d...
More ...MEDIA
The Dog Days of Ray: What’s a hard-working TV legend supposed to do when his fans stop watching him?
Matthew Ricketson
Promo by Ray Martin on Channel Nine at 6.25 p.m.:“Coming up on A Current Affair – dangerous footpaths.Don’t trip, the Council will blame...
More ...Show Me the Horror: Directors, producers and the importance of unsubtlety
Clive James
There are more bad director’s movies than bad producer’s movies.–ANON A standard piece of Hollywood wisdom would have us believe there are...
More ...Nihilistic Ear-worms: Franz Ferdinand, the band that changed the rock song.
Robert Forster
If this album review was a Franz Ferdinand song it would almost be over by now. These boys don’t hang about. Short, sharp songs, guitar...
More ...'The Ballad of Desmond Kale' by Roger McDonald
Zora Simic
In colonial New South Wales – where the convicts outnumber the jailers, the natives outnumber the convicts, and the sheep outnumber the lot...
More ...'Vulture'; 'Sunday Arts'; 'The Movie Show' on ABC-TV
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Any poet could have told the ABC that with a name like Vulture its new arts program was bound to get negative feedback. A vulture is an...
More ...Nellie Melba & Enrico Caruso
If Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso were each major attractions, their double act was a sensation. Between them, the imperious Australian...
More ...Fumigation in London & Amsterdam
MJ Hyland
It was a warm Tuesday morning, the beginning of my second week in Bloomsbury, London, and I was smoking a cigarette on the stone steps of...
More ...Why Drug Dealers Vote Liberal
Richard Cooke
Mitch may have stopped dealing drugs but he still wears the uniform of his former profession. His outfit is an expo for man-made fibres –...
More ...Wide Open Road
Julienne van Loon
At 8 o’clock on a Wednesday morning Nathan is driving the Commodore he spent the whole weekend tuning. He’s feeling a little cocky, or...
More ...Man with the Pearl-White Cord
Helen Garner
Somebody told me that Burkhard Augustin Hase, the young German magician who has married an Australian and come to live in Melbourne, was...
More ...Together Apart: Eavesdropping on Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Maria Tumarkin
A friend of mine was once married to a Russian musician, the lead singer of a band who subsequently became widely known in Russia, you...
More ...Comment
Margaret Simons
The Hyatt is an historic hotel, or what passes for one in this young city, and the front of the building is heritage-listed so the doormen...
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