March 2007
CULTURE
A Law That Cannot Be Enforced: The Politics of Art in Australia
Justin Clemens
Last year, in the mid-afternoon of 1 August, I snuck into the Melbourne Art Fair before it officially opened. I wanted to poke around, see...
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Winter in Afghanistan: Travels through a hibernating war
Debbie Whitmont
It's a winter morning and I'm standing on the tarmac of Kabul Airport, staring at the mountains that loom up from the end of the...
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Japan
Esperance & Skylab
For more than six years, it hurtled through the stratosphere, a 77-tonne assemblage of micrometeoroid shielding, solar panels, coolant...
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Love Goes to a Building on Fire: The Shins & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Robert Forster
There's a conundrum faced by certain bands, successful indie-rock ones especially. If the first album or two have broken through and lifted...
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The Host with the Most: Bong Joon-ho’s 'The Host'
Adrian Martin
Bae Doo-na, with her large nose that would never be allowed past Hollywood's cosmeticians, her crazy eyes and her general physique -...
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Read All About It: Fred Hilmer’s 'The Fairfax Experience'
Gideon Haigh
Twenty years ago next month, a rube was introduced to a crook, and the world of Australian newspapers was never the same. The naif was...
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Being There: The Strange History of Manning Clark
Mark McKenna
Manning Clark relished cultivating an image of himself as the lone outsider. When he sought to place his work in the context of Australian...
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SOCIETY
Saying Famous Things
Clive James
In Hollywood, "The son-in-law also rises" is a remark that was already part of the culture before World War II. Like the original author of...
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SOCIETY
Off the Rails
Edward Scheer
There is a crowd spilling onto the streets, looking up at a man high above them on a window ledge. Bathed in spotlights, he stands ramrod...
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SOCIETY
The Human Zoo
Ashley Hay
Walking through the gates of the Adelaide Zoo one day in late January, I passed a man asking what kinds of Australian animals were inside....
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Comment
Judith Brett
"There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." But tides also recede. The big question...
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