Millionplus Australian real estate for saleIn 1935 to be Catholic was to be Irish, and the hierarchy ruled its flock with a firm doctrinal hand and an unchallenged tribal authority - no one more so than Daniel Mannix, the venerable Cork-born archbishop of Melbourne. Tall, gaunt and magisterial, Mannix was already ancient. Born in 1864, he had become a contentious ecclesiastical figure in the Irish nationalist movement. Shipped to Australia, his stand against conscription led to demands for his deportation. In 1920, the Royal Navy prevented him landing in his insurgent homeland and he returned to Australia,...
The Monthly, May 2008, No. 34
In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Comment • Robert Manne
Razor-Gang Blues • Gideon Haigh
Hiraeth
• Toni Jordan
Organic Matter • Robyn Davidson
Lies, Damned Lies • Charles Firth
Razor-Gang Blues • Gideon Haigh
Hiraeth
• Toni JordanOrganic Matter • Robyn Davidson
Lies, Damned Lies • Charles Firth
The Monthly Essays
What he must do to win
Inside New Zealand’s social laboratory
A moral equivalent to Anzac Day
Arts & Letters
John Button, 1933–2008 • James Button
In the Giant Green Cathedral • Malcolm Knox
The Uncorking • Robert Forster
Committed • Julian Cribb
Unbridled • Luke Davies
‘The Story of Forgetting’ by Stefan Merrill Block • Zora Simic
‘Miracles of Life’ by JG Ballard • Chris Womersley
In the Giant Green Cathedral • Malcolm Knox
The Uncorking • Robert Forster
Committed • Julian Cribb
Unbridled • Luke Davies
‘The Story of Forgetting’ by Stefan Merrill Block • Zora Simic
‘Miracles of Life’ by JG Ballard • Chris Womersley
Encounters
Sir Henry Parkes & Henry Lawson • Shane Maloney
