June 2006
Gough Whitlam & Zhou Enlai
Shane Maloney
Early in 1971, the Australian Wheat Board was worried that politics were getting in the way of business. To the Coalition government in...
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Don Watson
Back in the early ’90s I could find out about East Timor just by going shopping. The struggling supermarket across the road was run by an...
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Consider the Lily
Chloe Hooper
Nearly six months after the Grampians bushfires, the national park has the eerie beauty of a land from a fairytale. Rows of blackened trees...
More ...The Greater Glory
Malcolm Knox
Paradise is once again at hand for the persecuted tribe of Australian soccer, or ‘The One True Football’. This month, the Socceroos’...
More ...Memento Mori
Simon Leys
Do you grieve at the thought that your life must come to an end? The alternative could be worse – Swift showed it convincingly in Gulliver’...
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A Nuclear El Dorado
James Kirby
Silex Systems: it sounds like the name of a computer-chip maker, or perhaps a manufacturer of silicon breast implants, but it’s actually a...
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The Outcast of Camp Echo: The Punishment of David Hicks
Alfred W McCoy
Within days, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld branded the 700 Guantanamo detainees “hardened criminals willing to kill … for their...
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What About Me?: The New Narcissism
Anne Manne
For the book, I had declared that while I had an obligation to do publicity, a line had to be drawn somewhere: I was not going on TV. After...
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Beattie’s Babylon
John Birmingham
Just up from the corner of Vulture and Boundary streets, where the short commercial strip of indie cafés and bars gives way to a remnant...
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The Continuing Insult to the Language
Clive James
In which English-speaking country is the English language falling apart most quickly? Britain. Are things as bad in Australia? I hope not....
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Windows is Shutting Down
Clive James
Windows is shutting down, and grammar are On their last leg. So what am we to do?A letter of complaint go just so far,Proving the only one...
More ...Beautiful Losers: Neil Armfield’s 'Candy'
Owen Richardson
The opening credits of Candy set the tone. To the strains of the Cocteau Twins’ ‘Song of the Siren’, Candy (Abbie Cornish) and Dan (Heath...
More ...Folded Brains, Squashed Ambitions: Peter Carey’s 'Theft: A Love Story'
Maria Tumarkin
In Theft, Peter Carey puts pure poetry into the mouths of two big, red-blooded, raving sons of a butcher from Bacchus Marsh. Carey...
More ...For the Love of Goat: Edward Albee’s 'The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?'
Edward Scheer
Australian theatre can be predictable: middle-class melodramas with the inevitable living-room setting, neurotic characters vaguely...
More ...'SET' ABC TV
Celina Riberio
In this nine-part series, the ABC hands the stage to Australia’s premier experimental-music acts for live performances on occasional...
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