November 2007
POLITICS
Getting Elected: The Australian Labor Party & the American Democrats
Michael Gawenda
When I arrived in Washington in November 2004, George W Bush had just been re-elected. The Republicans had held on to their majority in the...
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Lies that Tell the Truth: The paradox of art and creative writing
Simon Leys
This essay was originally an address to the annual conference of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where its title, at the request of...
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SOCIETY
Redmond Barry & Edward Kelly
In the 40 years since young Redmond Barry's arrival in Melbourne, low on cash and prospects, the raw frontier town of 5000 souls had grown...
More ...‘Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird’ by Andrew D Blechman
Sean Dooley
With an author name straight out of Mad magazine an almost Pythonesque subtitle, this paean to pigeons may at first seem the stuff of some...
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‘Mini Shots’ 1–9 by various authors
Carlie Jennings
Violence, obsession, addiction: these themes thread together the new Mini Shots series, with often disquieting results. Each pocket-sized...
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An Afternoon at Rough Trade
Robert Forster
The first Rough Trade record store opened in 1976 at 202 Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill. It was a good year to open a record store, and...
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Familiar Compound Ghosts: Nancy Underhill’s ‘Nolan on Nolan’ & Darleen Bungey’s ‘Arthur Boyd’
Patrick McCaughey
... in the waning duskI caught the look of some dead masterWhom I had known, forgotten, half recalledBoth one and many; in the brown baked...
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Kill Your Idol: Luke Davies on Andrew Dominik’s ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’
Luke Davies
"I go on journeys out of my body, look at my red hands and my mean face, and I wonder about that man who's gone so wrong. I been...
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Eco-Worriers: Michael Pollan’s ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’ & Bill McKibben’s ‘Deep Economy’
Robyn Davidson
It would be interesting to know how many trees and how much oil (petrol for the delivery of, aviation fuel for the author promotion of, ink...
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The Principle of Necessity: Justice Menhennitt & Australia’s Roe v Wade
Gideon Haigh
Yet no decision has ramified so powerfully as one just 14 months after Ryan's execution, in a case that occasioned little publicity, and on...
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SOCIETY
All Bogans Here
Anna Funder
In a recent Chaser sketch, Julian Morrow dressed up as a "citizens' infringement officer" in a yellow fluoro jacket. He walked the streets...
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SOCIETY
Checkmate
Leigh Sales
One recent Sunday morning, Ian Rogers, the greatest chess player Australia has produced, showed up at a small tournament held at the Ryde-...
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ENVIRONMENT
Lazarus Taxa
Ashley Hay
Extinction is one of the most popularly understood scientific ideas - that dangerous slide through the categories ‘threatened', ‘vulnerable...
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POLITICS
Detainee DON 94
Linda Jaivin
"I am so frustrated," says Morteza Poorvadi.Life is pretty good these days for the hardworking 24-year-old Iranian with the idiomatic...
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Comment: Why We Need a Change of Government
Robert Manne
In the October issue of the Australian Literary Review, Australia's most influential political journalist, Paul Kelly, published an article...
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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,...
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...
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