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June 2010

SOCIETY

Count Paul Strzelecki & Lady Jane Franklin

Paul Strzelecki had itchy feet. The son of a minor nobleman, without land or title, he quit Poland aged 33 and headed for England. There,...

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SOCIETY

'The Family Law' by Benjamin Law

Linda Jaivin

Tolstoy was wrong: not all happy families are alike. As portrayed in this very funny collection of personal essays by Benjamin Law, the...

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'War' by Sebastian Junger

John Birmingham

It might seem strange and contrary, but among the many surprising truths in Sebastian Junger’s brilliant evocation of 15 months, on and off...

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SOCIETY

Body of Work: Antony Gormley’s 'Firmament IV'

Robyn Davidson

Like all stereotypes, “stupid as a painter” – intended to cover visual artists of every persuasion – reveals itself as a truth via its...

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Artful Excess: The 17th Biennale of Sydney

Juliana Engberg

The marketing material for the seventeenth Biennale of Sydney displays a lusty engagement with the semiotics of font. Using the agitprop...

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SOCIETY

Out on the Weekend: Vampire Weekend at Brisbane’s Tivoli

Robert Forster

The big discussion has been about Ezra’s hair. Recent photos have had it fluffy and a little out of control. No problems tonight, though;...

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SOCIETY

My Three Sons: David Michôd’s 'Animal Kingdom' and Banksy’s 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'

Luke Davies

First-time director David Michôd, whose Animal Kingdom is one of the best Australian films in years, served notice in 2007 that something...

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SOCIETY

State of Tomorrow: Tony Judt’s 'Ill Fares the Land'

Robert Manne

Tony Judt, the historian of the French intelligentsia and postwar Europe, has been suffering a ferociously debilitating motor neurone...

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SOCIETY

Writing from the Grave: Eugene O’Neill’s 'Long Day’s Journey into Night'

Peter Conrad

Eugene O’Neill thought of his Long Day’s Journey into Night as a posthumous work. Completing it in 1941, he decided that it should only be...

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SOCIETY

Something about Mary: PL Travers and Mary Poppins

Alan Saunders

“I’ll stay till the wind changes,” says Mary Poppins to the Banks children after she swept in on the east wind and, overwhelming Mrs Banks...

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The Absent Heart

Amanda Lohrey

The Powerhouse is not atypical; it exists within a broader museum culture in Australia that tends toward the lacklustre and the disjointed...

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POLITICS

Life of Brian

Paul Barry

Burke struck me, during those two off-the-record conversations, as a rather pathetic figure, a man in denial. He seemed to be living in his...

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Gendercide

Anne Manne

The boy’s twin also sits on mother’s lap, but this baby is tiny, its emaciated form one-third the size of the thriving boy. The infant’s...

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From the Chrysalis

Don Watson

FIRST PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2010. It was a bad night for neo-cons, neo-liberals and neo-Hobbesians, the last being those wiseacres in and...

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Links

Catherine Ford

Every evening before dinner, I escort my infinitely forbearing dog out of the house and into the world on his nightly constitutional. Lance...

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SOCIETY

Domestic Spectacles

Kirsten Tranter

At first, it looked like the spine of a small animal lying in the long grass out the front of our noon inspection appointment, 2br orig....

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SOCIETY

Confidence Trick

Anna Funder

It’s dusk at the crossroads in inner Sydney. Tom Wright, associate director of the Sydney Theatre Company, and I are returning children...

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ECONOMICS

The Hard Stuff

Malcolm Knox

It was a recession; that’s my excuse. A friend got me a job interview with the world’s second-biggest management consultancy. A man and a...

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POLITICS

Comment: UK Elections

John Keane

Last month’s hung parliament in the British election confirms a basic rule of modern politics: whenever markets fail, representative...

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Comment: Water Policy

Mark Aarons

When Malcolm Turnbull announced his retirement from politics in April, he trumpeted his achievement of “a truly revolutionary reform of the...

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