July 2007
Rose Lacson & Langley George Hancock
When her friend Connie pointed out the advertisement in the morning paper, Rose Lacson told her she was crazy. She was just passing through...
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'Show Court 3' by Louise Paramor, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, 20 April
Justin Clemens
In a world overburdened by museums and monuments, by the claims of the past and the injunction to protect and save, what should we preserve...
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'Caravan Story' By Wayne Macauley
Martin Shaw
In 2004 Wayne Macauley published to great acclaim a novella titled Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe, with one critic even going so far as...
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A Natural Competitive Advantage: Guy Pearse’s 'High and Dry'
John Button
High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future (Viking, 480pp; $35.00) is the second recently published...
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Mind-Bottling: Will Speck & Josh Gordon’s 'Blades of Glory'
Luke Davies
Nine years ago the film There's Something About Mary, starring Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon and Cameron Diaz, was released. It was smart...
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The View from the Pavilions: The 2007 Venice Biennale
Juliana Engberg
You either love or loathe Venice. Some find its crumbling patina and limpid light romantic and restorative. Others feel only pneumonia...
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Pop Producer in B-Grade Movie Actress Murder Trial: Mick Brown’s 'Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector'
Robert Forster
On 23 May 2005 Phil Spector entered a courtroom in Los Angeles to hear evidence to be admitted to his trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson...
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Political Courage: Some Australian examples
John Hirst
My Australian collection begins early, at Sydney Cove in 1789, the second year of the convict settlement. The nature of this anomalous...
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Who’s Afraid of Macquarie Bank?: The story of the millionaire’s factory
Gideon Haigh
You are most likely to find Macquarie under your wheels. It has made its name as a long-term holder of big infrastructure assets, and its...
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A Letter to the Prime Minister from Death Row
Richard Bourke
Dear Prime Minister,I think it is wrong to kill people. It has become apparent that you and I differ on this. In particular, I think it is...
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Australian Exceptionalism: The Bali Nine and the future of the death penalty
Daniel Hoare
Since 1973, when the death penalty was abolished in Australia, the nation has taken a reasonably consistent international stance against...
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SOCIETY
Veritable Listeria
Charles Firth
My sister recently became the minister for cancer, women and climate change in the New South Wales government. That is an absurd thing for...
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SOCIETY
The Big Cheese
Gay Bilson
In 1837 Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, ordered that a 1400-pound cheese be placed in the foyer of the White...
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SOCIETY
I Got Nothin’ for You
Richard Cooke
Dave Panichi is one of the greatest jazz trombonists Australia has produced. He is also the straight man in one of the greatest...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Waterworld
Kate Rossmanith
A hundred kilometres off the coast of Gladstone, on the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, is a tiny island made from the bones of coral...
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Comment
Judith Brett
The knack of successful political leadership in parliamentary democracies is to balance the politics of unity with those of division, to...
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Man Without a Name: A Te Aroha cowboy and his secret part in training the 1985 Melbourne Cup winner
Craig Sherborne
A sweetheart should have made him stay in England, where he came from, should have said to him: “My darling, New Zealand is the other side...
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