May 2005
MEDIA
Fear & Loathing at the ABC
Margaret Simons
The working day is infused with the irony of the clever, their undercutting humour, and the slight sense of disappointment that always...
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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...
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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,...
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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 ...Mission Unthinkable: 'Paradise Now'
Helen Garner
Why is this young woman, in a thin cotton blouse, dark pants and boots, standing alone with a little suitcase in her hand, 50 metres from...
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Comment
Kate Grenville
To an Australian growing up in the sixties, the invention of the stump-jump plough could have seemed our greatest achievement. We were told...
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Comment
Don Watson
Early in the new year I entered a hairdressing salon in the main street of the Victorian Wimmera town of Horsham (not “Hers and Sirs” but...
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From Nation To Now
Mungo MacCallum
When a new Australian magazine invites me to reminisce about old Australian magazines I have worked for, it has either a lot of courage or...
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Freedom
Chloe Hooper
In the early morning of March 2 a smoking ceremony took place on Palm Island, north Queensland, to release the spirit of Mulrunji, who died...
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Scrumming It
Tim Lane
Crisis came early this football year. Round one of the pre-season Wizard Cup was scarcely complete, the home-and-away competition still...
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Hardships of the Desert
Azhar Abidi
On a Saturday morning in Marree, south of Lake Eyre and on the fringe of central Australian desert country, four generations of cameleers...
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Money
Brian Toohey
John Howard, a prime minister who supposedly yearns for the days when fathers went to work, mothers stayed home and families lived behind...
More ...So Happy We Could Scream: Still comfortable but relaxed no more in John Howard's Australia
John Birmingham
The feeling that it was a good town to leave was only confirmed when I returned a decade later to cover the freak show that the rest of the...
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Run and Hide: Ken Trewick and the amazing race sting
John Harms
Ken Trewick is late. Which is very unlike Ken Trewick. He told me he’d pick me up at 9.30. And as I stand in the sunshine on the footpath...
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Wild Dog
Julienne van Loon
The stray animal rounded the corner of Rose-dale Road and Thomas Street at a slow trot, his bony hips tilted slightly to give the effect of...
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The ExFactor: BookScan and the death of the Australian novelist
Malcolm Knox
Back when I was careless about what I wished for, someone asked a fanciful question, redolent of hope and innocence, about my up-coming...
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Explaining the Unexplained: Cameron Forbes's 'Hellfire'
Phillip Knightley
There comes a moment after a war when the politicians who made it and the generals who fought it and the soldiers who survived it have died...
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Getting Human: Andrew Denton and the art of interviewing
Kerryn Goldsworthy
It’s well known that Andrew Denton is the son of Kit Denton, author of the book on which Breaker Morant was based. It’s less well known...
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