Millionplus Australian real estate for saleThe president of the United States did not have a high opinion of the prime minister of Australia. "A pestiferous varmint", he called him. But William Morris Hughes didn't give a damn what Woodrow Wilson thought of him. He'd been called a lot worse, after all, and it hadn't done him any harm. The Labor Party had declared him a "rat" and expelled him from its ranks - yet here he was, two years later, still the PM and now backed by a whopping parliamentary majority. The British foreign secretary, Lord Robert Cecil, described him as "...
The Monthly, November 2006, No. 18
In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Park Life 
• Sarah Kanowski
Comment • Robert Manne
Walk the Line • Mungo MacCallum
For the Record • Malcolm Knox
• Sarah KanowskiComment • Robert Manne
Walk the Line • Mungo MacCallum
For the Record • Malcolm Knox
The Monthly Essays
An interview with Robert Hughes
Palm Island after the inquest into an death in custody
The battle of ideas in Australian politics
Why we're still more English than American
Arts & Letters
An Uncommon Diplomacy • Ramachandra Guha
Heroes (Just for One Day) • Robert Forster
Letters in the Sand • Drusilla Modjeska
Resistible • Adrian Martin
‘North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV’ By Clive James • Chris Middendorp
Heroes (Just for One Day) • Robert Forster
Letters in the Sand • Drusilla Modjeska
Resistible • Adrian Martin
‘North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV’ By Clive James • Chris Middendorp
Encounters
Lionel Rose & Elvis Presley • Shane Maloney
