October 2005
POLITICS
Biff goes Bang: The last word on Mark Latham, the man everyone is hearing but no one is listening to
Robert Manne
Latham began to write his diary as a backbencher in 1994. His notes became interesting after he was given the shadow education portfolio by...
More ...SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Evolution Baby
Mungo MacCallum
The year is 1830. William IV has ascended the British throne and Andrew Jackson is US president. France is in revolt after Charles X...
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Sundays in Paradise
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Paradise Community Church sits, appropriately enough, on acres of prime real estate. On a sunny Sunday morning it’s hard to find a space in...
More ...SOCIETY
The Dishwasher Unstacker
Edmund Campion
News of Donald Horne’s death, at 83, opened a torrent of remembrance. The sports pages of London’sGuardian newspaper, in a story about the...
More ...CULTURE
The People Vs Woolworths
Andrew Stafford
For a state that has supposedly come a long way since Joh Bjelke-Petersen ruled via a rustic combination of batons and brown paper bags,...
More ...MEDIA
Queensland. What is It?: To understand the place you must first understand the Bundaberg Bear
John Harms
Sarge is firing up. “Noosa is the re-invention capital of the universe. It’s all a facade. The houses are like a Western movie set. Big...
More ...WORLD
The Miracles of Guus: Can a thoughtful Dutchman who is worshipped in Korea take the Socceroos to the 2006 World Cup?
Simon Kuper
On this mid-August morning he is supervising a bunch of big men flying into each other. It’s the start of a journey that is supposed to...
More ...WORLD
Jet Lag
Catherine Ford
Martha Solburn, an American woman, plump and unaccustomed to vacations, eased herself out of a taxi into the late-August morning. Her...
More ...CULTURE
Hit Me: The thin veneer of his characters' self-command makes him exciting to watch. Russell Crowe and the art of violence.
Helen Garner
One morning I walked into the kitchen and found my son-in-law standing frozen in front of the TV. On the screen a bloke in a blue singlet...
More ...WORLD
Soft Touch: Falling for Nana Mouskouri
Robert Forster
In a far corner of my mind there has always been a place for Nana Mouskouri. She resides there with a few others: Marcel Marceau, Charles...
More ...CULTURE
Big Hitter, Huge Heart: Keith Miller, and the struggle to capture him on paper
Ramachandra Guha
One of the first books I owned was Keith Miller’s Cricket Crossfire. My father found it in a shop in Delhi and brought it home to the small...
More ...CULTURE
'On Beauty' by Zadie Smith
Zora Simic
Howard and Kiki Besley are the fraught couple at the centre of Zadie Smith’s new novel. Claire Malcolm, poet and interloper in their 30-...
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