August 2005
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August 2005
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Les Murray
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The Monthly Essays | Poem | August 2005
Death gets into the suburbs, but sleek
turnover highrise keeps it out of mind
and wilderness, wrapped in its own deaths,
scarcely points us at ours,
but furred rusty machines, and grey
boards unglazed for heritage or...
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Les Murray
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The Monthly Essays | Poem | August 2005
Haze went from smoke-blue to beige
gradually, after midday.
The Inland was passing over
high up, and between the trees.
The north hills and the south hills
lost focus...
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Mungo MacCallum
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Books | August 2005
For a movement founded on the principle of democratic socialism, the Australian Labor Party has thrown up a surprising number of leaders dedicated to the führerprinzip. Inevitably this has been...
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Adrian McGregor
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Books | Noted | August 2005
Standing on a property my daughter bought recently in Samford, half an hour’s drive north-west of Brisbane, I pointed across the valley to an impressive home. “That’s Steve Renouf’s house.” Said she: “Who’s Steve Renouf?” Had I read John Harms’s book then I...
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Inga Clendinnen
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Books | Noted | August 2005
Alison is a professional psychic working a cluster of grim towns on the fringe of London. She is a woman of “unfeasible size” but onstage, in her draperies, sporting her lucky opals, she transforms into a woman of confidence, presence and charm. While she...
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Kerryn Goldsworthy
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Television | August 2005
British actor Hugh Laurie, a gifted amateur athlete whose natural speaking voice recalls his old school Eton, has been nominated in this year’s Emmy Awards for his role as a snaky New Jersey doctor with a half-destroyed leg. Many will remember Laurie playing...
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Robert Forster
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Music | August 2005
Smog is Bill Callahan, a man of lyrics and a deep voice, a loner, a drifter, who notices the weather and is wise to past teenage trauma and sticky romance, to his ever-growing connection to the rural and his hipster desire to stay in the cities. He is in a...
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Helen Garner
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Film | August 2005
On a scorching summer weekend in Adelaide, while the news is dominated by the fatalities in a train wreck, a bunch of people confront their own private, inner derailments. Meryl (Justine Clarke), a self-sabotaging artist just home from her father’s funeral,...
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Julian Burnside
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Books | August 2005
There is a famous story from the American trial bar concerning juries. The accused was charged with murder. The case was entirely circumstantial – the body had never been found. During his final address, counsel for the accused said to the jury: “See the...
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