March 2009
MEDIA
Hidden Treasure: Forty-three Years at the ABC
Chris Masters
Despite that dismal episode, I still see the ABC as a national treasure. It can be snobbishly self-important and oafishly bureaucratic....
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Teenagers, Alcohol and Drugs: What Your Kids Really Want and Need to Know About Alcohol and Drugs: By Paul Dillon
Chris Middendorp
Paul Dillon's calm guide to adolescent drug and alcohol use is a handy anodyne for all those parents who fear they will overheat like the...
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Shots: By Don Walker
Tim Rogers
Two years back I spent time with Don Walker in the manner to which we're both accustomed: meet in a lobby, jump in a van, drive to a show,...
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Strangers in the Night: Robert Forster on Roberta Flack & Leonard Cohen live
Robert Forster
First there was First Take, one of the best debut albums of all time. It was recorded by Roberta Flack in 1969 for Atlantic Records,...
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Tales of the City: Gus Van Sant’s "Milk"
Luke Davies
"I'm in San Francisco and I'm gonna take it all in," Jack Kerouac wrote in his 1965 novel, Desolation Angels. "Incredible the things I saw...
More ...Arise!: Philip Roth’s 'Indignation'
Drusilla Modjeska
When, in 1951, Philip Roth affixed decals to the rear of his father's Chevy - "one proclaiming the name of my new university, the other the...
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For a Few Dollars More: Recent Books about Global Finance
Nicholas Gruen
The four short books under review are by Cassandras of the crisis who hastened into print to join the collective puzzling and pontificating...
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Vanity Fare: Michael Wolff’s 'The Man Who Owns the News'
Gideon Haigh
In the mid 1960s, Fred Friendly, friend of and producer to the legendary newsman Ed Murrow, visited his boss at CBS, the no-less legendary...
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Last Man Standing: Alistair Cooke’s 'Reporting America'
Alan Saunders
This book arrived on my desk during the week of the American presidential election, and it was still there a couple of days later when I...
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Those Most Peculiar People : In Praise of Eccentricity
Clare Press
In January, Jones was on stage at the Enmore Theatre as part of this year's Sydney Festival, clad in a G-string, a corset and a series of...
More ...Murder on Arena Avenue: Is Charles Zentai Guilty?
György Vámos
Recently, I spent several months sifting through the surviving records of the Budapest People's Court, which indicate that Zentai's family...
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Neo-Liberal Meltdown: The Response to the Prime Minister’s Essay
Robert Manne
The causes of the global financial crisis are already reasonably clear. The crisis originated in a series of interconnected developments...
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ENVIRONMENT
Sinking Sandbanks
Craig Sherborne
When bankers fly in to Kiribati, a fine evening spread is put on at the main hotel. Blue-cardboard ironies are erected: squat sandwich...
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POLITICS
Hideout
Mark Aarons
Australians can for the most part be proud of our international reputation for promoting human rights and opposing and punishing those who...
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SOCIETY
The Road to Kinglake
Richard Flanagan
"They call it fire freeze," she said.I looked up at the tree branches bowed and twig ends extended, the leaves forced horizontal as though...
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Comment: The Burning Bush
John van Tiggelen
In the populated spots of the North, where the surrounding savannah woodlands burn off as readily and regularly and safely as sugar cane,...
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MEDIA
Eugene Goossens & the Witch of Kings Cross
Sir Eugene Goossens was a man who liked a little magic in his life. Sex magic, to be specific.Goossens was a world-famous conductor and...
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