In This Issue
October 2005 in brief
John Harms interrogates pub-owners and archbishops, stockmen and solicitors, in search of answers to the question: “Queensland. What is it...
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Comment
Kate Grenville
To an Australian growing up in the sixties, the invention of the stump-jump plough could have seemed our greatest achievement. We were told...
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Evolution Baby
Mungo MacCallum
The year is 1830. William IV has ascended the British throne and Andrew Jackson is US president. France is in revolt after Charles X...
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Sundays in Paradise
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Paradise Community Church sits, appropriately enough, on acres of prime real estate. On a sunny Sunday morning it’s hard to find a space in...
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The Dishwasher Unstacker
Edmund Campion
News of Donald Horne’s death, at 83, opened a torrent of remembrance. The sports pages of London’sGuardian newspaper, in a story about the...
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The People Vs Woolworths
Andrew Stafford
For a state that has supposedly come a long way since Joh Bjelke-Petersen ruled via a rustic combination of batons and brown paper bags,...
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Biff goes Bang: The last word on Mark Latham, the man everyone is hearing but no one is listening to
Robert Manne
Latham began to write his diary as a backbencher in 1994. His notes became interesting after he was given the shadow education portfolio by...
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Queensland. What is It?: To understand the place you must first understand the Bundaberg Bear
John Harms
Sarge is firing up. “Noosa is the re-invention capital of the universe. It’s all a facade. The houses are like a Western movie set. Big...
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The Miracles of Guus: Can a thoughtful Dutchman who is worshipped in Korea take the Socceroos to the 2006 World Cup?
Simon Kuper
On this mid-August morning he is supervising a bunch of big men flying into each other. It’s the start of a journey that is supposed to...
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Jet Lag
Catherine Ford
Martha Solburn, an American woman, plump and unaccustomed to vacations, eased herself out of a taxi into the late-August morning. Her...
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Hit Me: The thin veneer of his characters' self-command makes him exciting to watch. Russell Crowe and the art of violence.
Helen Garner
One morning I walked into the kitchen and found my son-in-law standing frozen in front of the TV. On the screen a bloke in a blue singlet...
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Soft Touch: Falling for Nana Mouskouri
Robert Forster
In a far corner of my mind there has always been a place for Nana Mouskouri. She resides there with a few others: Marcel Marceau, Charles...
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Be Afraid: Tim Flannery's wake-up call to the planet
E.M. Holdsworth
I love going down the freeway in Shanghai and looking up at the apartment buildings … There’s an airconditioner in every residential window...
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Big Hitter, Huge Heart: Keith Miller, and the struggle to capture him on paper
Ramachandra Guha
One of the first books I owned was Keith Miller’s Cricket Crossfire. My father found it in a shop in Delhi and brought it home to the small...
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Sunshine State: The radiance before the disaster. The indomitable St Petersburgers.
Justin Clemens
Founded by Peter the Great in 1703 as a “window to the West”, St Petersburg quickly became, according to Alexander Pushkin, “the jewel of...
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'On Beauty' by Zadie Smith
Zora Simic
Howard and Kiki Besley are the fraught couple at the centre of Zadie Smith’s new novel. Claire Malcolm, poet and interloper in their 30-...
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'A Current Affair' on Channel Nine / 'Today Tonight' on Channel Seven
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Among people who get their current affairs from the ABC or SBS, the consensus is that A Current Affair and Today Tonight rate their socks...
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