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June 2007

WORLD

Daisy Bates & Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant

They were new chums, fresh off the boat. Daisy May O'Dwyer was 20, the porcelain-skinned daughter of a drunkard doctor from Cashel. Edwin...

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CULTURE

Australian Beauty: Cherie Nowlan's 'Clubland'

Luke Davies

To call Cherie Nowlan's excellent new movie, Clubland (released nationally on 28 June), a comedy would be not to get it entirely right. It...

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CULTURE

Do Androids Dream of Electric Pianos?: Evgeny Kissin’s 'Fantasy'

Anna Goldsworthy

The first time I heard the pianist Evgeny Kissin was in Carnegie Hall, in 1998, with the Met Orchestra and James Levine. Kissin is pale and...

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SOCIETY

Letter to a Young Friend on God and the Question of a Good Lunch: Recent books about religion

Amanda Lohrey

Dear Virginia,It's good to hear from you again, and I'm delighted to learn that you have decided to enrol in Cultural Studies 101. In light...

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SOCIETY

The Lost Enchanted World: Sven Lindqvist’s 'Terra Nullius' & Louis Nowra’s 'Bad Dreaming'

Robert Manne

I am an enthusiastic, although not unqualified, admirer of Sven Lindqvist's Exterminate All the Brutes, a book whose title best explains...

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SOCIETY

Shute the Messenger: How the end of the world came to Melbourne

Gideon Haigh

Early on 22 July 1957, a false alarm of nuclear attack sounded in Schenectady, New York. Only one man, reported Harper's, roused and...

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ECONOMICS

Wendi Deng Murdoch

Eric Ellis

Deng Wen Ge - she changed her name to Wendi in her mid-teens - was born in Shandong around the time that her future husband was buying...

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ECONOMICS

War of Words: The future of journalism as a public trust

Eric Beecher

"I don't want Rupert Murdoch to decide what belongs in the Wall Street Journal news pages. The essence of a great newspaper is independence...

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POLITICS

Stars in Their Eyes

Mungo MacCallum

Imagine that you are a member of the Labor Party living in the regional New South Wales electorate of McMahon. The seat is held by the...

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ENVIRONMENT

Crocodile Fears

Kate Rossmanith

In March last year, days before Cyclone Larry tore through Far North Queensland levelling towns and banana crops, a Port Douglas man found...

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MEDIA

Waterfront Blues

John Button

In the classic film On the Waterfront, set in New York, the embittered young watersider Terry Malloy (played by a youthful Marlon Brando)...

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POLITICS

Comment: Consuming the Planet

Clive Hamilton

Australians go into the federal election affluent and, on the surface, satisfied. Signs of prosperity are everywhere. Yet in a culture now...

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MEDIA

Editor's Note

Sally Warhaft

‘Is that the truth, or is your News Limited?' Last month, while this magazine celebrated its second birthday, Australia's pre-eminent media...

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