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  • Large Splendid Empty Rooms: Nicole Kidman in 'Birth'
    Helen Garner | Film | May 2005

    A light snow is falling. A runner in gloves and hooded black tracksuit goes pounding away from us along the curving paths of Central Park, New York. Enchanting music – flute, a triangle, strings – quivers in the scene’s icy air. At the entrance to a dark...

  • 'Brotherboys: The Story of Jim and Phil Krakouer' by Sean Gorman
    Paul Daffey | Books | Noted | May 2005

    As footy-mad youngsters, the Krakouer brothers’ inventive quest to improve their Aussie Rules skills included practising over the kitchen table in the family home at Mount Barker, WA. While their father Eric, one of several quiet heroes in this sad and...

  • '3 Decades of Photography by Bill Henson', National Gallery of Victoria
    Justin Clemens | Art | Noted | May 2005

    A young man masturbates, his face and torso scattered across a sequence of photos. Blurry and disjointed, you never see the act itself. Passers-by are captured without knowing it, oblivious to their neighbours, strangers to themselves. Each mono-chrome...

  • Delirium in the Temple: 'I Am a Bird Now' by Antony and the Johnsons
    Robert Forster | Music | May 2005

    I first heard this record coming in from the airport in Milan. A taxi ride, ancient four-storey buildings, thrusting billboards, the beautiful people gorgeously dressed; and then a motorbike accident on a corner, a body beside an ambulance stiff...

  • Getting Human: Andrew Denton and the art of interviewing
    Kerryn Goldsworthy | Television | May 2005

    It’s well known that Andrew Denton is the son of Kit Denton, author of the book on which Breaker Morant was based. It’s less well known that radio, TV and even the ABC itself are in Denton jnr’s blood, if not his very genes; his father worked as an ABC...

  • Explaining the Unexplained: Cameron Forbes's 'Hellfire'
    Phillip Knightley | Books | May 2005

    There comes a moment after a war when the politicians who made it and the generals who fought it and the soldiers who survived it have died or are dying and the truth finally emerges. We are in the middle of that moment now with the war between Australia and...

  • The ExFactor: BookScan and the death of the Australian novelist
    Malcolm Knox | Books | May 2005

    Back when I was careless about what I wished for, someone asked a fanciful question, redolent of hope and innocence, about my up-coming first novel. “If you could choose, would you take critical approval or good sales?”

    If I could...

  • Wild Dog
    Julienne van Loon | Story | May 2005

    The stray animal rounded the corner of Rose-dale Road and Thomas Street at a slow trot, his bony hips tilted slightly to give the effect of walking at a tangent, the front legs not quite square with the back. His coat was yellow and thinning, the skin...

  • Run and Hide: Ken Trewick and the amazing race sting
    John Harms | The Monthly Essays | May 2005


    I remember wondering what a Queenslander was doing at the Stawell Gift. A few years later I was talking to a bloke who knows a fair bit about Australian Rules football in Brisbane. He mentioned Ken Trewick. Played for years....