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, April 2009, No. 44
In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Comment • Satyajit Das
The Third Wave • Tim Flannery
Time Loop • Mungo MacCallum
Born Again • Leigh Sales
The Third Wave • Tim Flannery
Time Loop • Mungo MacCallum
Born Again • Leigh Sales
The Monthly Essays
Life in a Bangkok Prison
Life in a Bangkok Prison
Damien Wright & His Table
Arts & Letters
Seers • Bill Bowtell
The Good Soldier • Inga Clendinnen
Thoughts in the Middle of a Career • Robert Forster
Snow Falling on Vampires • Luke Davies
Beachmaster • Clive James
"The Striped World" by Emma Jones • Alexandra Coghlan
"Things We Didn’t See Coming" by Steven Amsterdam • Emmett Stinson
The Good Soldier • Inga Clendinnen
Thoughts in the Middle of a Career • Robert Forster
Snow Falling on Vampires • Luke Davies
Beachmaster • Clive James
"The Striped World" by Emma Jones • Alexandra Coghlan
"Things We Didn’t See Coming" by Steven Amsterdam • Emmett Stinson
Encounters
Paul Keating & Jack Lang • Shane Maloney
