February 2006
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February 2006
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Shane Maloney
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February 2006 | Encounters
Oh Errol, sang Australian Crawl in their hymn to Tasmania’s gift to swashbuckling, I would give everything just to...
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Anne Manne
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Books | Noted | February 2006
Happenstance, Daniel Menaker calls it, the utterly contingent nature of our lives. Family Wanted is an anthology of essays by some very fine writers about lives shaped by adoption. It...
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Alan Saunders
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Books | Noted | February 2006
When is Australia going to stop being young? I may have miscounted but, as far as I can see, of the 193 independent nations states listed in the CIA World Factbook, no fewer than 143 are younger than us. Even if you allow that many of these have ancient...
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Peter Robb
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Books | February 2006
We came from the sea and we keep something of it in us. Its salt is still in our blood and its words remain in our mind – we fly now, but we board or embark first – and our greatest summer pleasure is a return to the ocean. I’d give up antibiotics and laser...
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Justin Clemens
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Art | February 2006
Born in London in 1964 to Turkish Cypriot parents, Çerkez finished his studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, in 1987. He had his first solo exhibitions the next year, at City Gallery in Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Photography...
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Robert Forster
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Music | February 2006
Neil Diamond and Rick Rubin are like two trains coming from opposite directions. Diamond is the veteran: forty years in the business, hit singles, Vegas, movies and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” with Barbra Streisand. Rubin is the hip record producer: Red Hot...
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Helen Garner
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Film | February 2006
California, 1968. Not a flowerchild in sight.
The camera edges up to the grim granite walls of Folsom Prison. The exercise yards are empty. A crow fossicks in a trash can. Jumpy armed guards patrol the towers. Where is everyone?...
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John Button
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The Monthly Essays | February 2006
Two kilometres from the Ana Mandara, atop a small hill, is Vietnam’s largest statue of Buddha. At the foot of the hill is the Long Son Pagoda and a monastery. Some ragamuffin kids squat on the ground, playing a game that looks like conkers. They’re...
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Gideon Haigh
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The Monthly Essays | Business | February 2006
Google is synonymous, too, with speed and simplicity. But nothing about it has been speedier or simpler than its rise. It is not a decade since it was first launched on the website of the inventors’ Stanford...
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