August 2006
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August 2006
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August 2006
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August 2006
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August 2006
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Shane Maloney
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August 2006 | Encounters
When Labor won the 1983 election, David Combe thought he had it made. As ALP national secretary he’d put the party apparatus on a professional footing, secured its finances and paved the way for Bob Hawke’s eventual victory. Now a commercial lobbyist, the...
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Justin Clemens
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Noted | August 2006
In the late sixteenth century, the Dutch – inhabitants of a derisory artificial country – started to punch seriously above their weight. While beating off Nature, the Hapsburgs and the Pope, ardent Calvinists went on a creative rampage, transforming the...
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Robert Forster
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Music | August 2006
It happened the old-fashioned way, by hearing the single first. ‘God Lead Your Soul’, it’s called. You play it once and think, That’s a strange record, and then find it doesn’t leave you. You come back the next day and play it twice, and it intrigues even...
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Helen Garner
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Film | August 2006
On a lovely autumn morning in early September 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark, bound for San Francisco. Among its passengers were four young Islamic hijackers, armed with knives and explosives. While flight 93 was in the air, three other...
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Kerryn Goldsworthy
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Television | August 2006
“But that’s what this program’s about. It’s about action, and the sheer beauty of it,” said Peter Cundall recently in his introductory segment of Gardening Australia (6.30 pm Saturdays;...
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Gideon Haigh
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Books | August 2006
When the KGB called on Vasily Grossman in February 1961, it was on a mission like no other. Life and Fate, his unpublished novel of World War II drawn from experiences as a battlefield...
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