February 2007
SOCIETY
Robyn Davidson & Bruce Chatwin
It was 1980 and Robyn Davidson was 30, unknown and working on the manuscript of her first book. London was cold and wet and a long way from...
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‘The Museum of Doubt’ By James Meek
Chris Womersley
This is a hyperactive collection of eight short stories and a novella. There's the wolfish salesman Jack, vomiting a severed deer's...
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The War Not Thought: Les Carlyon’s ‘The Great War’
Gideon Haigh
It was said of World War I that it was two wars in one: the war fought, and the war spoken. To this has since been added the war written....
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A Change is Gonna Come: Series Six of 'The West Wing'
Anna Goldsworthy
Many West Wing fans tuned out permanently from the show at the end of series four, after writer-creator Aaron Sorkin's spectacular exit...
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Who’s Your Mummy?: Margot Nash’s 'Call Me Mum'
Adrian Martin
Perhaps more than any other image, the spectacle of a ‘stolen' child - a child taken away from its natural parents by a malevolent...
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A West Side Story: Casey Bennetto’s 'Keating!'
Robert Forster
So, what is this? Casey Bennetto, the author of Keating! and one of the lead actors in it, says that it was first written as a "...
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America's Australia: Instructions for a Generation
John Button
In November, Rupert Murdoch came on a special visit and gave us a lecture, in a well-publicised keynote address to an audience of Sydney...
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Corporatising Culture: Who Holds the Past in Common Trust?
Malcolm Knox
Where exactly am I? It's not easy to answer. This is a place called Toyota Megaweb, situated on Odaiba, an island reclaimed from Tokyo...
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Take Me to the River: Climate Change in the Mallee
Chloe Hooper
Then he must record the rainfall, or lack of it. The water gauge is a 30-centimetre aluminium tin set in the ground with a plastic beaker...
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POLITICS
A Turkish Tale: Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide
Robert Manne
During the exact time Australian troops spent in hell on Gallipoli, another event of world-historical importance was taking place on...
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SOCIETY
Writer Gets Leg Up
Linda Jaivin
A slip, for once not of the tongue or pen but the foot. Then it was Christmas night in the emergency unit and Boxing Day in the operating...
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What Lindy Did Next
Ashley Hay
When Lindy Hume revealed the first program of her four-year tenure at the Perth International Arts Festival back in 2003, she was already...
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SOCIETY
Many Me
Kate Rossmanith
On the front desk at the head office of Sydney IVF, in Kent Street, rests a marble statue of three fused figures. Two adults and a child...
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SOCIETY
Lenny Beadell, Road Artist
John Harms
I am sitting in a 4WD, belting along the dirt road which heads west from Uluru. I am taking it all in: the remoteness, the redness, the...
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Comment
Mungo MacCallum
As federal parliament began its final session of 2006, John Howard must have been feeling a bit like his beloved Australian cricket team:...
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