June 2007
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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