Oh Errol, sang Australian Crawl in their hymn to Tasmania’s gift to swashbuckling, I would give everything just to be like him. Such was the strength of the Flynn legend that the band named its second album Sirocco, after the schooner the adventure-seeking 20-year-old sailed from Sydney to New Guinea in 1929. Presumably it wasn’t Errol the tobacco planter and slave trader that inspired the...
The Monthly, June 2009, No. 46
In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Comment • Robert Manne
Cold Comfort • Nick Bryant
Haiku Hikers • Linda Jaivin
Hollywood Ending • Leigh Sales
Cold Comfort • Nick Bryant
Haiku Hikers • Linda Jaivin
Hollywood Ending • Leigh Sales
The Monthly Essays
Out of Work in a Land of Plenty
Learning from America
Judith Wright & Nugget Coombs
Arts & Letters
Credo • Bill Henson
Goodbye to All That • Tim Flannery
Lost Women Found • Robert Forster
Two Stroke • Luke Davies
Here I Stand • Peter Sutton
"Reunion" by Andrea Goldsmith • Jo Case
"A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity" by Nicholas St • Alexandra de Blas
Goodbye to All That • Tim Flannery
Lost Women Found • Robert Forster
Two Stroke • Luke Davies
Here I Stand • Peter Sutton
"Reunion" by Andrea Goldsmith • Jo Case
"A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity" by Nicholas St • Alexandra de Blas
Encounters
Peter Finch & Vivien Leigh • Shane Maloney


