October 2006
Faith in Politics
Kevin Rudd
OCTOBER 2006: Above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey are arrayed ten great statues of the martyrs of the Church. Not Peter,...
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WORLD
Thomas Blamey & Douglas MacArthur
When General Sir Thomas Blamey heard that General Douglas MacArthur had been appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the South West...
More ...‘Fast, Loose Beginnings: A Memoir of Intoxications’ By John Kinsella
Chris Womersley
The advance publicity for John Kinsella's memoir - which included restraining orders taken out against fellow poets Robert Adamson and...
More ...‘The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis’ By Jacques Lacan, trans. Russell Grigg: ‘Being and Event’ By Alain Badiou, trans. Oliver Feltham
Justin Clemens
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the philosophical waters, two large French warships turn up off our coastline, aided and...
More ...Modern Times and Times Before That: Bob Dylan’s 'Modern Times'
Robert Forster
He's 65 years old now and he ain't slowin' down. Anyone thinking deep middle age was going to break Bob Dylan's stride and...
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Awaken the Gods: Barrie Kosky’s ‘The Lost Echo’
Edward Scheer
Barrie Kosky is going to be pissed off. No booing, no heckling, no rotten fruit, no veal cutlets (yes, an Italian audience once threw these...
More ...Grotesque: After the Grand: Recent British TV Comedy
Guy Rundle
Round the National Gallery, at the top of Trafalgar Square, the recently established garden beds have come up nicely, a discreet fringe of...
More ...The First XI: The Best Australian History Books
John Hirst
Are the finest guides to Australian history always those written by historians? Asked to name the best history books on Australia, I find...
More ...CULTURE
Beyond the Cringe: Australian Architecture and the Venice Biennale
Deyan Sudjic
Even among those people who do it for a living, there is a widely held belief that exhibiting architecture is an activity that stretches...
More ...The Defence of David Hicks: Major Mori and American Military Justice
Alfred W McCoy
After 60 emotionally supercharged minutes of Nigel Jamieson's dance-drama Honour Bound, a sparse Sunday-evening audience clapped...
More ...Keeping Mum
Kaz Cooke
The mummies in ads and the fashion pages and celebrity magazines are really starting to get to me. There are hundreds of them on TV selling...
More ...Port Vila For Sale
Drusilla Modjeska
The ads begin before you get there. Air Vanuatu's in-flight magazine offers all manner of access to "paradise": "boutique" resorts, "palm-...
More ...Hopper’s Crossing
Ashley Hay
Should you be strolling among the tombstones of St Kilda Cemetery, in Melbourne, or St Anne's, Kew, just outside London, later this spring...
More ...Fierce Creatures
Gideon Haigh
Terrifying and unpredictable, or benign and sweet-natured? Not to be trifled with, or a legitimate source of wonder? We can learn much from...
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Don Watson
Imagine for a moment that George Orwell was right when he said that words have precise and specific meanings and we should do our best to...
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