In This Issue
May 2006 in brief
In "Who's for Breakfast, Mr Jones?", David Salter investigates talkback titan Alan Jones. Analysing the Sydney radio ratings, he finds that...
More ...The Nation Reviewed
Comment
Robert Manne
Constitutional conservatives often suggest that there once existed a Golden Age in Australia when the Westminster principle of ministerial...
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When the Wind Blows
Mungo MacCallum
Every cliché has its day, so here goes: it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.For everyone affected by it, Cyclone Larry was a...
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The War on Drugs
Tim Lane
In one of the more conspicuous poacher-to-gamekeeper transformations of recent times, former AFL Players’ Association head Andrew Demetriou...
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More Than a Little Bit Wrong
Kaz Cooke
If I had woken up fifteen years ago with the face I have now, I would have screamed the house down. Not even with the filthiest of...
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The Alphabet Game
James Kirby
Passing my local child-care centre the other day, I noticed it’s all changed: the builders have come in. Flown in, actually, because the...
More ...The Monthly Essays
The Nelson Touch: Research Funding: The New Censorship
Gideon Haigh
Come only a little closer and the events loom far larger. For the last year, this apparent reopening of the History Wars across a broader...
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Cut!: Has the Australian film industry lost its way?
Peter Craven
When Mel Gibson, the man who had acted in Waiting for Godot with Rush many years before, handed him the Academy Award, he said, “I always...
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Who's for Breakfast, Mr Jones?: Sydney's talkback titan and his mythical power
David Salter
That tone. Nagging. Insistent. Unrelenting. Even on the brink of verbal derailment he keeps signalling to his audience: ‘What I’m telling...
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A New Historical Landscape?: A responce to Michael Connor's 'The Invention of Terra Nullius'
Henry Reynolds
History wars have raged in many countries over the last twenty years. Though every campaign has concentrated on specific aspects of the...
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Laboratory Conditions: Michael Haneke’s 'Hidden'
Owen Richardson
Let the bad times roll. Munich-born, Paris-based director Michael Haneke gained international attention in 2001 with The Piano Teacher,...
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The First Woman: 'Commander in Chief'
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Poor old President Mackenzie Allen just never seems to get a quiet moment to herself. If it’s not a tanker threatening to leak oil up and...
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Turn Around You Weren’t Invited: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ 'Show Your Bones'
Robert Forster
Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase are three good rock ’n’ roll names; they’re the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, another good rock ’n’ roll name. They...
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'2006 Contemporary Commonwealth' at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia; Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Justin Clemens
You could be pardoned for thinking late capitalism will never let its minions sleep. These days, Australian cities lurch from one high-...
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'Ludmila’s Broken English' by DBC Pierre
Celina Riberio
It’s a new world. Science has separated 33-year-old conjoined twins Blair and Bunny. Privatisation has plucked them from their...
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Encounters
Margaret Fulton & Elizabeth David
Shane Maloney
The combination was untried but promising. To a well-pickled English favourite add a hearty Australian staple. Mix together in a selection...
More ...Letters to the Editor
Barry Carozzi
Each month for the last I-don't-know-how many-months I have intended to write this...
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Nick Vasey
Firstly, I wanted to say your magazine is the first I’ve subscribed to in quite some time, and the...
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