June 2009
POLITICS
Patriot Acts: Learning from America
Waleed Aly
Hendi is the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Despite the sober surrounds, he fizzes with energy and urgency....
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The Coming Storm: Out of Work in a Land of Plenty
John Birmingham
The small, wiry and intense man who discovered his luck had run out on Black Friday is happy to be known by his internet handle, Havock21....
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ECONOMICS
Hollywood Ending
Leigh Sales
It's Saturday night and Steve Carroll sits behind the counter in his suburban video store watching the door and hoping for customers. Once...
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SOCIETY
Haiku Hikers
Linda Jaivin
We've come to the Telegraph Station, four kilometres north of Alice Springs, for a welcome to country by Marie, an Arrernte elder and...
More ...Cold Comfort
Nick Bryant
Shirt by fluorescent-orange shirt, the quilt will take shape: a gaudy patchwork emblazoned with the logo of the world's biggest mining...
More ...Comment: The Return of Deficit Economics
Robert Manne
The Labor government of James Scullin was elected in October 1929, the month of the Wall Street crash, which history regards as the...
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SOCIETY
Peter Finch & Vivien Leigh
One lunchtime in August 1948, Peter Finch was doing Molière on the shop floor at O'Brien's glass factory in Sydney when Laurence Olivier...
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"A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity" by Nicholas St
Alexandra de Blas
For Nicholas Stern, the UN climate-change conference in Copenhagen in December is the "most important international gathering since the...
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"Reunion" by Andrea Goldsmith
Jo Case
Andrea Goldsmith's new novel is truly exciting. Like its brilliant protagonists, Reunion is passionate about ideas, dissecting them...
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Here I Stand: Noel Pearson’s "Up from the Mission"
Peter Sutton
Most Australians probably know Noel Pearson in just one or two of his aspects: as the regional leader, lawyer and activist from Cape York...
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Two Stroke: Sarah Watt’s "My Year Without Sex" & Antonello Grimaldi’s "Quiet Chaos"
Luke Davies
A woman in her thirties, a mother of two, suffers a debilitating aneurism. When the initial shock and panic have passed and she begins to...
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Lost Women Found: The discovery of Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and ‘Connie’ Converse
Robert Forster
"When did you write that? How did you happen ... to ... uh ..." The nervous and incredulous male voice stops there on the tape. It's 1954,...
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Goodbye to All That: James Lovelock’s "The Vanishing Face of Gaia"
Tim Flannery
James Lovelock's latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning (Allen Lane, 192pp; $29.95), has an important message. In a few...
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Credo
Bill Henson
Art tends to occur against our better judgment. At the most obvious level this happens when art creates scandal: think of the trials of...
More ...In the Garden: Judith Wright & Nugget Coombs
Fiona Capp
When Coombs died he was farewelled with a state funeral. He had been an enormously influential figure in Australian political and cultural...
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