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    Don Watson | The Nation Reviewed | November 2008 | Foreign Affairs

    Sixty-eight-year-old Lloyd Griffin sits on the verandah of his new house in New Orleans' once notorious Ninth Ward. The house is painted in startling deep orange with white trim, and the two-metre stilts on which it stands give Lloyd a view of the new levy on the canal....

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    Gideon Haigh | The Nation Reviewed | November 2008 | Business

    This year marks the centenary of an early classic of American finance: Fifty Years on Wall Street, by Henry Clews, a self-made speculative tycoon turned éminence grise. It is bookended by calamities. Clews first strolled the street during the Western Blizzard of 1857,...

  • Following Menzies
    John Hirst | The Nation Reviewed | November 2008 | Politics

    What should the Liberal Party do when Labor governments favour private enterprise, contracting out and selling off? Join in, of course. In August, Barry O'Farrell, the leader of the New South Wales Liberals, refused to join in when Morris Iemma's Labor government...

  • Hair Care
    Robert Forster | The Nation Reviewed | November 2008 | Society & Culture

    At 17 I could have become a hairdresser.

    In Brisbane in the early to mid '70s, the only places offering any kind of interesting shopping experience were in the inner-city arcades. Elizabeth Arcade, in particular, had a string of shops that not only offered goods...

  • What is Rudd’s Agenda?
    Robert Manne | November 2008 | The Monthly Essays | Politics

    In 2007, I was involuntarily drawn into an argument about the likely performance of the Rudd government. Before the election, many people on the Left in Australia were beginning to express misgivings about what was called Kevin Rudd's "me-tooism": his support...

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    Robyn Davidson | November 2008 | The Monthly Essays | Environment

    For Indigenous people, who knew it as well as their own bodies (in a sense, their country was both body and mind), it was a large garden that sustained them for thousands of generations. Withholding sometimes, when the dry went on longer than usual, but generally so...