September 2007
WORLD
HMAS Melbourne & HMAS Voyager
On the evening of 10 February 1964, the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, flagship of the Royal Australian Navy, and the Daring-class...
More ...CULTURE
'No One Belongs Here More Than You' by Miranda July
Zora Simic
Lonely people suit short stories. Uneventful lives punctuated with occasional incident are easily delineated, revealing poignancy and even...
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‘Linda Marrinon: Let Her Try’ by Chris McAuliffe
Justin Clemens
Chris McAuliffe's governing image for Linda Marrinon's career is that of Voltaire's Candide, tending carefully to the garden...
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Tales from Pig City: The Saints
Robert Forster
Pig City isn't a nice name for a town, is it? When Unkle Fats and the Parameters released a single in 1986 called ‘Pig City', the...
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Let a Thousand Weeds Bloom: Andrew Keen’s ‘The Cult of the Amateur’
Gideon Haigh
When the impresario of the Weekly World News, Eddie Clontz, died in January 2004, there was a wave of nostalgic obituaries dwelling on his...
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Ho-Diddly-Hum: David Silverman’s ‘The Simpsons Movie’
Luke Davies
One day in 1967 my parents loaded my five-year-old self and my two brothers into the Volkswagen, and off we all trooped to see Batman, the...
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A Masochistic Scalpel: JM Coetzee’s ‘Diary of a Bad Year’
Barry Hill
JM Coetzee's ability to cut to the bone is terrifyingly impressive. He exposes the ribcage, with the heart beating inside it. There it...
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Like Love in a Marriage: Melbourne’s International Chamber Music Competition
Anna Goldsworthy
"Competitions are terrible," says Stefan Heinemeyer, the diminutive, twinkling cellist of the Atos Trio, from Germany. "You go in with...
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Open All Hours: Beyond Left & Right in industrial relations
Diana Bagnall
Historically, industrial relations has been ideal for the us-versus-them treatment: workers to the Left; bosses to the Right. There's a...
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It's Bennelong Time: On the campaign trail with Maxine McKew
Judith Brett
Why, aged 54, has McKew decided to stand for parliament? I ask her, "What is it about politics that gives you a buzz?" "...
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ECONOMICS
The Other End of Town
Alice Pung
I take my sister up Melbourne's Collins Street, to show her the office where I work. It is at the end of the street where boutiques display...
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El Pollo Loco
Mungo MacCallum
At the beginning of 1971 the Australian Labor Party found itself in the unusual position of having some spare money in the bank. A little...
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SOCIETY
Full House
Annabel McGilvray
Early one autumn morning this year a newborn baby was found outside Dandenong Hospital, in outer Melbourne. A month later and a state away...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Ticked Off
Ashley Hay
The unlikely combination of a small seaside village in Crete and an Adelaide-born Kylie Minogue look-alike would not have suggested, to the...
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Comment
Robert Manne
A senior press-gallery journalist, one who frequently accompanies the prime minister on his foreign trips, once informed a gathering at...
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