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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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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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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‘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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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