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December 2008 - January 2009

SOCIETY

Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow

Galarrwuy Yunupingu

My land is that of the Gumatj clan nation, which is carefully defined, with boundaries and borders set out in the maps of our minds and,...

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CULTURE

Between a Muddle & a Mystery: Brian Dibble’s 'Doing Life'

Drusilla Modjeska

If, by her own admission, order was not a "strong point" for Elizabeth Jolley, it is a badge of honour for her biographer, Brian Dibble....

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MEDIA

Going Private: Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre

Hazel Rowley

I loved writing Tête-à-Tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (2005). Never have I written a book with such...

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WORLD

Feeling Lucky: What Drives Economic Optimism?

Gideon Haigh

Any serious stock-market turbulence invites images of flappers, bathtub gin and plummeting stockbrokers: that is, of the Wall Street Crash...

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POLITICS

Alfred Deakin & John Bunyan

Alfred Deakin occupied many notable posts and earned several memorable sobriquets in his long and distinguished public career. Member for...

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CULTURE

'A Mercy' by Toni Morrison

Chris Womersley

A Mercy sees America's last Nobel laureate for literature weighing in with her first novel in five years and returning to some of the...

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WORLD

'Vertigo: A Novella' by Amanda Lohrey

Meg Mundell

The idea of leaving carries a seductive charge: an implicit dare to abandon your old life and begin afresh. City-dwellers Anna and Luke,...

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SOCIETY

'From Little Things Big Things Grow' by Paul Kelly & Kev Carmody: Illustrations by Peter Hudson & Gurindji schoolchildren

Mungo MacCallum

This is the book of the song that has become the anthem of the reconciliation movement. A century after the birth of Vincent Lingiari and...

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CULTURE

Southern Discomfort: Tasmania’s Art Scene

Juliana Engberg

I'm standing in the midst of crates and stacking shelves. The final scene of Citizen Kane comes to mind: when, at the end of his life, Kane...

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CULTURE

Slippin’: AC/DC’s Black Ice

Robert Forster

In the beginning, back in 1966, there was Harry Vanda and George Young. They were the songwriting team in The Easybeats, responsible for...

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WORLD

Peter Craven's Best Books for Summer 2008-09

Peter Craven

Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Bloomsbury, 976pp; $49.95). Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father,...

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WORLD

A Stockingful: Peter Craven on the Best Books for Summer

Peter Craven

I suppose 2008 will be remembered as the year when the bottom fell out of the markets and America elected Barack Obama. If the former is...

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SOCIETY

Big Thoughts, Empire Burlesque: Oliver Stone’s 'W'

Luke Davies

"The incumbent Administration has distinguished itself for the ages." So wrote the editors of the New Yorker recently, before...

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WORLD

Once Upon a Time in America: Getting Elected in Zanesville, Ohio

Don Watson

The people who built the interstate highways in the 1950s might have done worse to Zanesville: they might have put it right through the...

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MEDIA

The Black Polo

Charles Firth

Some questions are taboo.At 7.49 pm on Friday, 24 October, two twenty-something women, both about 170 centimetres tall and with brunette...

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SOCIETY

Ally of the Dolls

Alice Pung

She was found beneath the floorboards of an old house in Geelong, and appeared to have been through a fire. Her body had disintegrated, but...

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MEDIA

The Ant & the Butterfly

John van Tiggelen

One crisp spring evening, just on dark, an older man and a middle-aged woman met on a lonely bush track to inspect a patch of scrub by...

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SOCIETY

Panic & Censor

David Marr

I was putting on a bit of dog for the fresh envoy of a Great European Nation. This was deep in the Howard era, and we were drinking coffee...

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POLITICS

Comment

Judith Brett

The big lesson of the past few months of financial crises is that government is the ultimate risk manager. When all else fails, be it the...

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