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  • Comment: An Indigenous Game
    John Hirst | The Nation Reviewed | September 2008 | Society & Culture

    Aboriginal people make up 2% of the population and 10% of footballers in the Australian Football League. As anyone who has seen them in action will attest, they seem made to play the game, but were they makers of the game as well? Their role in the game's origins has been a...

  • A Tale of Two Sittings
    Cullen Murphy | The Nation Reviewed | September 2008 | Society & Culture

    "This is the moment I've been waiting for." Those are the first words in the handwritten diary that my father kept as he began his long service in the Pacific during World War II. He wrote them as a young lieutenant on 6 November 1943, the day he shipped out...

  • Operation Tom Yum
    Ashley Hay | The Nation Reviewed | September 2008 | Society & Culture

    Perhaps it was because I'd just seen the trailer for the new James Bond movie, but I was hoping for trench coats or disguises when I sat down to lunch with a group of secret Thai-food tasters. Perched at one of the broad, high tables at Jarun Pompanya's Capital Thai,...

  • Saving Yourself
    Benjamin Law | The Nation Reviewed | September 2008 | Society & Culture

    In the library of Inglewood State School - a three-hour, sleep-inducing drive west from Brisbane - Jim Lyons discusses Scarlett Johansson with students from years seven and eight. He shows them a laminated newspaper article featuring Johansson's photograph. The headline...

  • The Penalty Is Death: Inside Bali's Kerobokan Prison
    Luke Davies | The Monthly Essays | September 2008 | Foreign Affairs

    In Kerobokan, there are long, idle hours for activity such as that. The hours are only broken by the visiting periods, six days a week, when friends and relatives of the prisoners squeeze into a tiled courtyard about half the size of a basketball court, jostling for space and...

  • On Fragments and Dust
    Nicolas Rothwell | The Monthly Essays | September 2008 | Foreign Affairs

    Thoughts of this kind would always come to me after I had driven the narrow, ill-maintained highway through the Syrian Desert, towards the Euphrates Valley, the Iraqi border and Anbar Province beyond: I used to break my journey round sunset, at Tadmor, beside the...