February 2008
POLITICS
Green Christine: A Profile of Senator Milne
Amanda Lohrey
Milne is delayed, which gives me a moment to enjoy the view from her office. It's a big glassed-in semicircle that looks down the Derwent...
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POLITICS
Australia: The Official History
John Hirst
Howard adopted narrative history as part of his political program in a speech on Australia Day 2006, when he attacked the current practice...
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SOCIETY
Monkey Business
Gideon Haigh
A couple of days after the second Test between Australia and India ended at the Sydney Cricket Ground amid acrimony and indignation, I...
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Johnny O’Keefe & Jack Benny
After more than 50 years in the business, Jack Benny was nothing if not a trouper. When CBS dumped his long-running television show at the...
More ...‘Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005’ by Robert Hass
Greg McLaren
Time and Materials, Robert Hass's fifth collection, won the 2007 American National Book Award for poetry. Surprisingly for a poet of...
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CULTURE
Sunshine On My Brain: The pop genius of The Monkees
Robert Forster
Sometimes I play a game in my head: name the five best American rock bands of the '60s. My list goes: The Velvet Underground, The Byrds,...
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Before Little England: James Boyce’s ‘Van Diemen’s Land’
Nicholas Shakespeare
"I am so weak that I could eat a piece of man."One of Tasmania's least-known convict sites is to be found in roughly the spot...
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Northern Light: Denton Corker Marshall’s Manchester Civil Justice Centre
Deyan Sudjic
The idea that courtrooms should have distinctive architecture has been remarkably persistent in almost every culture since at least the...
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Eye Witness: Julian Schnabel’s ‘The Diving Bell & the Butterfly’
Luke Davies
In the Jorge Luis Borges story ‘The Secret Miracle', the protagonist, Jaromir Hladik - a writer who, "like every writer, measured...
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Fugitive Days: Peter Carey’s ‘His Illegal Self’ & its antecedents
Janette Turner ...
In 1953, the very year that the Rosenbergs were executed as communist spies, Arthur Miller's The Crucible was packing the Martin Beck...
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Unforgiven
Craig Sherborne
I am 22 years old. It is 1985. I live in London - hear St Paul's bells practising their scales! They wake me to work on Sundays. I'...
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CULTURE
Ivy League
Kate Rossmanith
Our continent has a wretched history of invasive species. Ecosystems have succumbed to exotic animals such as foxes, rabbits and carp,...
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MEDIA
The Perfectly Bad Sentence
Clive James
In writing, to reach the depths of badness, it isn't enough to be banal. One must strive for lower things. Almost five years have gone by...
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WORLD
Mane Attraction
Ashley Hay
Under the spreading shade of a gum tree at the Mogo Zoo, just down from Batemans Bay, a furry cluster of lion cubs is at play: batting at a...
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POLITICS
Comment: Changing of the Guard
Robert Manne
There are two distinct questions concerning the political events of late last year which it is important not to confuse. Why did the Howard...
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