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    Don Watson | The Nation Reviewed | October 2006
    Imagine for a moment that George Orwell was right when he said that words have precise and specific meanings and we should do our best to stick to them when we speak or write. Orwell argued that "slovenly" language made it harder to think clearly, and as clear thinking...
  • Fierce Creatures
    Gideon Haigh | The Nation Reviewed | October 2006
    Terrifying and unpredictable, or benign and sweet-natured? Not to be trifled with, or a legitimate source of wonder? We can learn much from Steve Irwin's death about the behaviour of that strange, capricious, mysteriously abundant yet increasingly endangered species, the...
  • Hopper’s Crossing
    Ashley Hay | The Nation Reviewed | October 2006
    Should you be strolling among the tombstones of St Kilda Cemetery, in Melbourne, or St Anne's, Kew, just outside London, later this spring and hear a strange noise, it may be the sound of some of history's finest botanists turning in their graves. These are the burial...
  • Port Vila For Sale
    Drusilla Modjeska | The Nation Reviewed | October 2006
    The ads begin before you get there. Air Vanuatu's in-flight magazine offers all manner of access to "paradise": "boutique" resorts, "palm-fringed" bungalows, "dream" tours - even your own slice of "absolute beachfront from AUD$50,...
  • Keeping Mum
    Kaz Cooke | The Nation Reviewed | October 2006
    The mummies in ads and the fashion pages and celebrity magazines are really starting to get to me. There are hundreds of them on TV selling Panadol or "health" bars, and they all seem to be snapping back to their pre-baby figures like industrial-strength rubber...