A self-taught self-improver of the old school, Jack Lang worked his way up from a paperboy and horse-bus driver to lower-middle-class respectability as an auctioneer and real-estate agent. Elected premier of New South Wales in 1925, he introduced widows' pensions and workers' compensation, earning the undying enmity of the Establishment...
The Monthly, February 2006, No. 9
A Twitch in Time • Clare Barker
Sexyland • Michelle Griffin
Tell Them I Said Something • Simon Leys
Welcome to the New Neil • Robert Forster
Dating Longing • Justin Clemens
The Sea • Peter Robb
'The Old Country: Australian Landscapes, Plants and People' by George Seddon • Alan Saunders
'Family Wanted: Adoption Stories' edited by Sara Holloway • Anne Manne


