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September 2008

SOCIETY

Operation Tom Yum

Ashley Hay

Perhaps it was because I'd just seen the trailer for the new James Bond movie, but I was hoping for trench coats or disguises when I sat...

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SOCIETY

A Tale of Two Sittings

Cullen Murphy

"This is the moment I've been waiting for." Those are the first words in the handwritten diary that my father kept as he began his long...

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SOCIETY

Comment: An Indigenous Game

John Hirst

Aboriginal people make up 2% of the population and 10% of footballers in the Australian Football League. As anyone who has seen them in...

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WORLD

On Fragments and Dust

Nicolas Rothwell

Thoughts of this kind would always come to me after I had driven the narrow, ill-maintained highway through the Syrian Desert, towards the...

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WORLD

The Penalty Is Death: Inside Bali's Kerobokan Prison

Luke Davies

In Kerobokan, there are long, idle hours for activity such as that. The hours are only broken by the visiting periods, six days a week,...

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SOCIETY

Saving Yourself

Benjamin Law

In the library of Inglewood State School - a three-hour, sleep-inducing drive west from Brisbane - Jim Lyons discusses Scarlett Johansson...

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WORLD

‘Banjo’ Paterson & Rudyard Kipling

In March 1900 in Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State, Andrew ‘Banjo' Paterson attended a dinner hosted by the commander of the British...

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CULTURE

‘The Phantom’, No. 1518

Kevin Patrick

Five hundred pounds was a lot of money by any measure back in September 1948. Yet that's how much Ron Forsyth chipped in, along with three...

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SOCIETY

‘Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All’ by Christina Thompson

Zora Simic

Growing up in land-locked Boston, Christina Thompson knew "almost nothing of the islands or the sea", but a steady diet of...

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CULTURE

Totally Wired: Wire’s ‘Object 47’

Gideon Haigh

Live at the Roxy London WC2 (Jan-Apr 77), one of punk's indispensable artefacts, begins much as you'd expect, with three tracks of phlegm-...

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WORLD

Unhappy Endings: Annie Proulx’s ‘Fine Just the Way It Is’

Amanda Lohrey

The celebrated American writer Annie Proulx is now in her seventies, and it's possible to look back on her impressive list of publications...

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CULTURE

Only Look, Only See: David Malouf’s ‘On Experience’

Inga Clendinnen

Matching writers to themes can be a dubious business, but David Malouf and experience are a natural match. My guess is that Malouf has...

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WORLD

Under the Rainshadow

Chloe Hooper

When I first travelled to Palm Island, to attend the inquest into Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody, I was venturing into Astley country...

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MEDIA

Apologetics and Hypocrisy: An Exchange on Australian anticommunism and the Indonesian massacre of 1965-6 between Gerard Henderson and Robert Manne

Robert Manne

As those who follow ideological politics in Australia are aware, it is one of Gerard Henderson's many unpleasant habits to engage his...

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