In This Issue
September 2005 in brief
In "The Unknown Story of Cornelia Rau", Robert Manne delivers a blunder-by-blunder account of what really happened: from her involvement...
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Comment
Andrew Wilke
They have almost lost their war on terror. Whether Osama bin Laden is alive or dead is irrelevant, because his franchises pop up quicker...
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The Nation Reviewed
She is Somewhere
Celina Riberio
CDs are stacked high like Jenga next to open, highlighted textbooks. Clothes are shoved into a blue laminex wardrobe the last student...
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This is Your Afterlife
Kerryn Goldsworthy
In the course of her political career Pauline Hanson endured a range of unpleasantnesses, including death threats, jail strip-searches and...
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Beach Boy
Gideon Haigh
In the Australian team of which he is the oldest, most experienced and comfortably most famous member, Shane Warne is the great...
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Murder at Pioneer Cemetery
Anna Clark
On April 22, Terrence Laurence Dann won a joke-telling contest at the Spinifex Hotel in Derby, Western Australia. He collected the $100...
More ...The Monthly Essays
The Unknown Story of Cornelia Rau: Often she cried. Sometimes she screamed. She begun at Baxter in what was called Blue Compound. She was quickly sent to Red One
Robert Manne
Cornelia was the younger daughter of Edgar and Veronika, a solid middle-class German couple from the Baltic city of Hamburg. Edgar Rau...
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Moving Experience
Helen Garner
The night before I left my old house last month I sat down, exhausted after a day of packing and carrying, to watch Super Nanny. I found...
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Trouble on the Night Shift: Rescue and remembrance in the creek beds of the desert
Anna Krien
The Ti Tree Aboriginal night patrol consists of five blackfellas whose unpaid job is to stop grog runners. Ti Tree might be a dry zone but...
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Normie's Father
Roger McDonald
The dominating men of Normie Powell’s childhood lived on winding dirt roads following the Trout River upstream to its source. Each was a...
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The Interpreter - If alive, will play: Charles MacKarras and the quest for authenticity
Stephen Fay
Sir Neville Cardus, the legendary cricket writer and music critic, chose to spend the World War II years in Sydney rather than London....
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Swingeing Pom: Christopher Hitchens and the road to curmudgeonhood
Phillip Knightley
A couple of years ago at Britain’s premier literary festival, Hay-on-Wye, two star performers dominated the program: former US...
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Love Story. A vision of a world where adults and children are equals: 'Motherhood' by Anne Manne
Maria Tumarkin
Before my daughter Billie was born almost nine years ago, there were all kinds of ways to insult me:Jenny Craig dropout; boring; mediocre;...
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The Beautiful & the Damned Clunky: Laura Linney and Topher Grace in 'P.S.'
Helen Garner
If Louise, the main character of Dylan Kidd’s new movie P.S., were played by a less likeable actor than Laura Linney, we mightn’t much...
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'Honeycomb' by Frank Black
Robert Forster
This is a Sunday afternoon barbecue record: people milling about, sausages turning, maybe some Mexican beer. “Who’s this?” someone asks. “...
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'Hoi Polloi' by Craig Sherborne
Luke Davies
I first became aware of Craig Sherborne when I read his beautifully honed but laconic poems in Best Australian Poems 2003. Here was a...
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'In My Skin' by Kate Holden
Zora Simic
The road to junkiedom and prostitution is littered with cliches. Kate Holden’s memoir – the tale of a good Melbourne girl who becomes a...
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