July 2006
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Mungo MacCallum
When Henry Kissinger, the architect of the Vietnam War, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the satirist Tom Lehrer announced that he was...
More ...Tickets on Ourselves
Gideon Haigh
OK. Here we are. Just click on this … little map of Victoria. Uh huh. Yes, I am an Australian Cricket Family member. And this … is my...
More ...Gods of War and Rain
Ashley Hay
In a cavernous hall of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, things are in a state of disarray. Curators stride past with rolls of...
More ...Bogin, Hopit
Shane Maloney
In late May wild poppies are brilliant splashes of red on the hillsides of Crete, and fallen mulberries stain the roadsides of the villages...
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SOCIETY
The Myth of Ethical Investment
James Kirby
Did you know that Woolworths now controls 14,000 poker machines? The supermarket company has followed the money down the street to the pub...
More ...CULTURE
No Closed Shops, No Leg-ups, No Favours: Greg Combet's master plan for industrial relations
Nicholas Way
Remember these epic words? They’re from Labor prime minister Ben Chifley’s speech to the NSW Labor Party conference on 12 June 1949, in...
More ...CULTURE
Our Future Thinkers: The search for the next generation of public intellectuals
Drusilla Modjeska
It’s a symptom, I think, of the unease we feel that over the last few years there has been sporadic debate about what an intellectual is,...
More ...A True Hipster: Remembering Grant McLennan
Robert Forster
Grant and I started the Brisbane band The Go-Betweens in January 1978. We’d met two years earlier in the drama department at the University...
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We’re All Globile Now: The 2006 Biennale of Sydney: 'Zones of Contact'
Justin Clemens
In 1786 the great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe made a celebrated excursion to Italy. Though Raphael had previously been Goethe’...
More ...The Dying of the Light: Philip Roth’s 'Everyman'
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Two or three decades ago, my sisters and I would meanly poke fun at our mother when Christmas brought with it a swag of greeting cards...
More ...Every Which Way But Forward: Michael Winterbottom’s 'Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story'
Owen Richardson
Published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanmade a celebrity of its author, the...
More ...'The Ethics of What We Eat' by Peter Singer & Jim Mason
Fiona Hile
JM Coetzee’s fictional animal rights activist and ageing novelist, Elizabeth Costello, didn’t hesitate to compare contemporary stockyards...
More ...'FIFA World Cup' SBS Television
Patrick Allington
Never mind three goals in eight minutes and, especially, Tim Cahill’s exquisite second effort. Never mind the controversial Japanese–...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Nicole Kidman & Tom Cruise
He was a hot-shot stock-car driver. She was a winsome 22-year-old brain surgeon. Theirs was truly a marriage made in make-believe.The film...
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