September 2006
Comment
David Corlett
In 2001, at the height of the refugee debate, the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC), a Sydney-based social-justice organisation funded by the...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Fencing Lesson
Kate Holden
Kim closes the door of her room. It's only seven in the morning and the child of her housemate is squalling ferociously on the other side....
More ...The Ghost Gum of Garden City
Mungo MacCallum
Australia isn't very good at political monuments. We have nothing to compare with the Lincoln Memorial, let alone Mount Rushmore. Our...
More ...John White’s Table
Ashley Hay
As the door to the auction rooms of Bonhams and Goodman, in Sydney's Double Bay, opened onto the deeply black winter evening, it was clear...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Roadkill
Delia Falconer
It is a cold morning on the Tasman Peninsula, south of Hobart, and I am holding a dead wombat's paw. It is a surprisingly dainty thing, as...
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There’s Something About Mary: The Politics of Water in the Sunshine State
John Harms
Farmers have done well in this valley for generations, and newer residents, seeking a green change, have also helped the region prosper....
More ...Cruising: Life and death on the high seas
Malcolm Knox
The group's dynamic is manifest in the photo. All but two are smiling. Five have criminal charges or convictions. Dragan Losic, slot...
More ...I Accuse: A century after the Dreyfus Affair, “anti-terror” legislation jeopardises Australians’ right to a fair trial
Julian Burnside
On 26 September 1894, the French Intelligence Service intercepted a message which had been sent to Lieutenant-Colonel von Schwartzkoppen....
More ...The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion: Joe Boyd’s 'White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s'
Robert Forster
A friend of mine, younger than I, who works for a hip reissue label out of San Francisco, told me of an encounter with a member of a...
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The Contours of the Everyday: Writing ‘Ordinary People’s Politics’
Judith Brett
"I can't stress enough how important it is for you to just be an ordinary person. You know, there aren't enough ordinary...
More ...Everyone’s Battleground: Ken Inglis’s 'Whose ABC? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983–2006'
Gideon Haigh
In their rip-roaring history of the BBC during the Thatcher years, Fuzzy Monsters, Chris Horrie and Steve Clarke report an encounter...
More ...Interrogation Dances: The Making of 'Honour Bound'
Caroline Baum
In the first week of August, two shows opened in Sydney: an arena-scale production of the hit musical The Boy from Oz, and Honour Bound, a...
More ...'Tuvalu' By Andrew O’Connor
Zora Simic
A young man named Noah goes to Japan and ekes out a threadbare existence teaching English in cubicles to pay for his room in a rambling...
More ...‘2.37’ Directed by Murali K Thalluri
Owen Richardson
Hi Sally, Tried to call, but you were out. I really think we need to pass on 2:37. I found it excruciating - up to and beyond camp, too...
More ...‘Big Brother’ Channel Ten
Rowanne Couch
And so we enter September, the season of uncertain weather and jasmine cascading down fences, and the start of nine glorious months of no...
More ...Peter Lalor & Raffaello Carboni
Shane Maloney
When Peter Lalor's moment in history arrived, it caught him by surprise. He'd come to Australia to strike it rich, not to lead a rebellion...
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The Stolen Generations: A documentary collection
Robert Manne
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