May 2007
WORLD
Harry Chauvel & TE Lawrence
Shane Maloney
In the dying days of the war to end all wars, Anzac horsemen cantered down the Golan Heights and put the Ottoman army to flight. Damascus...
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‘The Cleft’ By Doris Lessing
Chris Womersley
After making four Booker Prize shortlists and covering literary territory as diverse as science fiction, autobiography, libretti and non-...
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‘Australian Impressionism’, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Justin Clemens
This is an impressive corporate exercise, bringing together more than 240 works from the heroic era of Australian art, from an...
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Headlock: Ryan Fleck’s ‘Half Nelson’
Luke Davies
Of all the heart-of-gold narratives in cinema it is the prostitute with a heart of gold that has rankled most and fared worst, in terms of...
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Bryan Looks Back: Bryan Ferry’s ‘Dylanesque’
Robert Forster
Many years ago there was a show on ABC Television called GTK. The initials stood for the rather quaint phrase ‘getting to know'. The...
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He Would Have Disappeared Years Ago: John Carroll’s ‘The Existential Jesus’
Peter Jensen
I admire John Carroll for the seriousness with which he addresses major cultural issues. He has done so again in The Existential Jesus (...
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Too Big for the Bathroom Shelf: Clive James’s ‘Cultural Amnesia’
Peter Conrad
Let me begin with a digressive excursion into the fast-retreating past. It concerns memory, which is not only the ligature that holds...
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From Frogmore, Victoria: Understanding Raimond Gaita
Helen Garner
There's a brief scene, quite early in the movie, in which Raimond is mooching along a street and sees a teenage girl dancing wildly to a...
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Only Connect: Loneliness in the age of freedom
Anne Manne
In most Western nations, the number of people who live alone is rising. In Britain, 18% of all households were single-person by 2001; the...
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Out of Control: The tragedy of Tasmania’s forests
Richard Flanagan
Clearfelling, as the name suggests, first involves the complete felling of a forest by chainsaws and skidders. Then, the whole area is...
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SOCIETY
Bugging Out
Richard Cooke
Simon Beer has spent the past five years trying to convince himself that the Apocalypse will be fun. Not that he calls it the Apocalypse....
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SOCIETY
Storm Spotters
Ashley Hay
It's not every day you get to call Zeus, but that's what it felt like as I dialled the number for Andrew Haigh at the Bureau of Meteorology...
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SOCIETY
Out of Africa
Gideon Haigh
In the 1960s, one of the catchcries of the anti-apartheid movement seeking the exile of South African athletes was "no normal sport in an...
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SOCIETY
The Beast of Beethoven
Anna Goldsworthy
The first person we met in Townsville was Kirtley Leigh Payne, the Barrier Reef Orchestra's glamorous guest concertmaster. She had been...
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Comment
Judith Brett
Received wisdom among election watchers holds that the Australian electorate does not throw out governments when the economy is doing well...
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