In This Issue
November 2006 in brief
In "British Rules", Gideon Haigh looks at why Australia is still more British than American. Examining Anglo-Australian relations through...
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Encounters
Lionel Rose & Elvis Presley
Shane Maloney
Lionel Rose was nearing the end of a hard training session when he got the message that Elvis Presley wanted to meet him. It was December...
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‘North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV’ By Clive James
Chris Middendorp
Near the conclusion of the third volume of his memoirs, May Week Was in June, Clive James argued memorably that constructing a decent...
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Resistible: Ann Turner’s 'Irresistible'
Adrian Martin
One of the things that immediately gives away mediocre Australian films is their ill-chosen titles. Irresistible: a snappy, intriguing hook...
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Letters in the Sand: Lloyd Jones’s 'Mister Pip'
Drusilla Modjeska
There's more than one way to read a book. On the front cover of Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip (Text Publishing, 220pp; $29.95), which is...
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An Uncommon Diplomacy: Walter Crocker’s ‘Nehru: A Contemporary’s Estimate’
Ramachandra Guha
The relationship between Australia and India has usually been viewed through the lens of cricket. Don Bradman and Keith Miller were heroes...
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Heroes (Just for One Day): 'The Countdown Spectacular'
Robert Forster
Molly is up in the bleachers with a microphone and a spotlight on him. He's up there to introduce the last act of the night, Sherbet....
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Howard’s Brutopia: The battle of ideas in Australian politics
Kevin Rudd
Yet the culture war is essentially a cover for the real battle of ideas in Australian politics today: the battle between free-market...
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Time’s Arrow: An interview with Robert Hughes
Peter Craven
Hughes had become the art critic of Time magazine in 1970, and you could read those page-long pieces - which as severe a judge as Gerald...
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British Rules: Why we're still more English than American
Gideon Haigh
It was a big story for a while, although it was more an unexpectedly extreme version of an acknowledged phenomenon than something...
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Who Let the Dogs Out?: Palm Island after the inquest into an death in custody
Chloe Hooper
On the morning of 19 November 2004, Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, Palm Island's rangy 33-year-old officer in charge, had arrested Cameron...
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The Nation Reviewed
For the Record
Malcolm Knox
‘The Library of Babel', a 1941 story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, is often read as a prefigurement of the internet. Every...
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The Nation Reviewed
Park Life
Sarah Kanowski
"You're handsome! You're beautiful!" he calls out as he walks the dogs. "Jesus loves you!" was the preferred greeting for a week or two,...
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The Nation Reviewed
Walk the Line
Mungo MacCallum
King over all the children of prideIs the Press - the Press - the Press!Rudyard KiplingMark Latham's latest work, A Conga Line of Suckholes...
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Comment
Robert Manne
Last month, the federal parliament passed the most important media laws in 20 years. The laws allow newspaper owners to move into free-to-...
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Theo Giantsos
Thank you to Kevin Rudd, and The Monthly, for restoring integrity into the realm of public policy discourse in Australia...
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