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, December 2006 - January 2007, No. 19
Kate and the Whale • Ashley Hay
Happiness Writes White • Clive James
Contra Mundum • Kate Holden
Jumblats Pty Ltd • Charles Firth
A Thinking Read • Peter Craven
The Kindness of Strangers • Luke Davies
A Story of Spin
• Adrian MartinCooking with Love • Alan Saunders
Some Things We Don’t Yet Know • Craig Sherborne
'Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2005' • Chris Middendorp


