March 2008
CULTURE
John Pilger & Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn wrote many things during her remarkable 60-year career. Reports on living conditions in the mine and mill towns of...
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‘The Sleepers Almanac No. 4’ edited by Zoe Dattner & Louise Swinn
Zora Simic
Melbourne-based Sleepers Publishing has been steadily creating a well-deserved buzz around its annual collection of short fiction. Almanac...
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‘Skins’, Season 1, SBS
Rachel Hills
Skins hit Australian screens in January with what can only be described as a cacophony of action, as the show's charismatic alpha male...
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Improvisations: Jazz pianist Andrea Keller
Anna Goldsworthy
To get to Melbourne's Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, you have to drive down Little Lonsdale Street and park by the church. It is dark down...
More ...SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Bowled Again …: The Big Day Out
Robert Forster
Brisbane is in the middle of its wettest summer in more than ten years. The rain started well before Christmas and there have barely been...
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Cooking Brains: Martin Jones’s ‘Feast’
Gay Bilson
Near the beginning of William Golding's 1955 novel The Inheritors, an old woman makes fire, opening a ball of clay, placing it over an old...
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Train I Ride: Don Watson’s ‘American Journeys’
Delia Falconer
On YouTube, someone has posted a lovely compilation of the many train sequences in Yasujiro Ozu's films. Looking at this clip, you realise...
More ...SOCIETY
Heath Ledger, 1979–2008
Luke Davies
It is clearly a mischievous, in-joke cast-and-crew moment, something personal for Ledger. Perhaps it was his last day of shooting. But...
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Packed It In: The Demise of The Bulletin
Gideon Haigh
On the morning the Bulletin finally closed, Thursday, 24 January 2008, editor-in-chief John Lehmann went for a haircut. There were bound to...
More ...POLITICS
Sorry Business: The Road to the Apology
Robert Manne
Two pieces of evidence I stumbled upon shortly after reading the report had a particularly powerful effect on me. One was a passage from...
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SOCIETY
Opportunity
Alice Pung
There is a severed bear's head in the hall, and it has been there for more than a week. Its red tongue pokes out from its mouth, which is...
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ECONOMICS
Free House
Craig Sherborne
Humans love getting something for nothing. Failing that, next to nothing. Picking up a $1-million inner-city Melbourne house for a $15,000...
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SOCIETY
The Other Teresa Brennan
Amanda Lohrey
On 8 January 2006, in the Sydney suburb of Mosman, a silver Lexus belonging to the retired Federal Court judge and Living National Treasure...
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Comment
Mark McKenna
An Australian republic can only be argued for convincingly at the level of feeling - on what we feel towards the place and for one another...
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Clive James
The nickname ‘Diamond Jim’ fitted James McClelland the way ‘Big Julie from Chicago’ fitted the gangster in Guys and Dolls who rolled...
More ...Uncle Malcolm
Martin Flanagan
“You should write about Uncle Malcolm,” Lenny Clarke told me one day. Lenny’s a Kirrae Wurrung man. He lives on his traditional lands,...
More ...The Price of Noodles
Michelle Griffin
The waiters at Lentil As Anything, a homely 28-seat vegetarian joint on Blessington Street, St Kilda, never tell you how much to pay for...
More ...Game Dame in a Doona
Clare Barker
Most people are familiar with the concepts of the Yummy Mummy – the gym-toned career woman with child who manages to stay fanciable – and...
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Zero Millimetres in Tooleybuc
John Harms
In the Cricketers Bar at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, shortly after the Swans’ AFL grand final victory, a bloke from Sydney told me the ABC...
More ...2024
Malcolm Knox
“The event that dislocated our period from the last was September 11.” “Oh-one. Twin Towers. Splatter patterns. It’s raining men,...
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