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 Sport: A panel discussion with William McInnes, Gideon Haigh and John Harms

Sport: A panel discussion with William McInnes, Gideon Haigh and John Harms

John Harms

William McInnes, Gideon Haigh and John Harms take the scenic route in this discussion about sport in Australia, its importance in the...

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The Nation Reviewed

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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The Monthly Essays

There’s Something About Mary: The Politics of Water in the Sunshine State

John Harms

Farmers have done well in this valley for generations, and newer residents, seeking a green change, have also helped the region prosper....

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The Joy of Sport

John Harms

Manning Clark, historian, writer and lover of the Carlton Football Club, was convinced that sport mattered in Australia. “Football,” he...

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The Nation Reviewed, Arts & Letters

Zero Millimetres in Tooleybuc

John Harms

In the Cricketers Bar at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, shortly after the Swans’ AFL grand final victory, a bloke from Sydney told me the ABC...

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The Monthly Essays

Queensland. What is It?: To understand the place you must first understand the Bundaberg Bear

John Harms

Sarge is firing up. “Noosa is the re-invention capital of the universe. It’s all a facade. The houses are like a Western movie set. Big...

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The Monthly Essays

Queensland. What is It?: To understand the place you must first understand the Bundaberg Bear

John Harms

I watch the Melbourne of my imagination disappear under low clouds. Urbane Melbourne, where conversation matters, where people take an...

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Drought Essay: There's Mud in Manangatang: It's raining at last in the bush, where there is no confidence, only hope.

John Harms

You should start in a place like Deer Park, where I find myself now, in a hire car so mass-produced that 45 minutes ago in the city depot I...

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Street Talk

John Harms

On the cover of the first Australian edition of Vice, a free street magazine published about once a month, a bloodied rat lay dead on a...

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Stop the Pigeons

John Harms

In The Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams’s book of words that should exist but don’t, he proposed the term “sheppy”: the closest distance,...

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