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    Robert Manne | The Nation Reviewed | April 2007 | Politics
    In early March the ABC broadcast a superb episode of The West Wing, the series about the US presidency to which many politically minded Australians have become addicted. Nothing on television better captures the reality of contemporary democratic politics than The West...
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    Richard Cooke | The Nation Reviewed | April 2007 | Media | Society & Culture
    The US Vice President, Dick Cheney, took an unwelcome guest home with him from his recent Australian trip. Never a healthy man (he has had four heart attacks and a quadruple bypass), the VP complained of calf pain on his return and, sure enough, an ultrasound revealed a deep-...
  • Not in Translation
    Malcolm Knox | The Nation Reviewed | April 2007 | Media | Society & Culture
    When Gough Whitlam told the young Kevin Rudd to go out and get a university degree, Rudd chose to study Chinese language and history at the ANU. What if a present-day mentor showed equal prescience and advised an ambitious protégé to go out and learn the language which is in...
  • The Real World
    Charles Firth | The Nation Reviewed | April 2007 | Media | Society & Culture
    A few years ago, I was asked to speak at the Screen Producers Association Fringe Conference, in Byron Bay. I can't remember what my area of expertise was, but I do remember one television executive who specialised in getting shows ‘to market'. She explained that in the...
  • The Lone Ranger: John Howard's concentration of power
    Brian Toohey | The Monthly Essays | April 2007 | Politics
    Had Sir Frederick Wheeler lived to see John Howard in action as prime minister, he might have extended the timeframe to include the current era. Wheeler was a strong believer in governments following ‘due process'. The notion sounds tedious, and it often is. It can also...
  • A Death in the Harbour: Policing Australia’s northern waters The Online Monthly - subscriber only access
    Ruth Balint | The Monthly Essays | April 2007 | Foreign Affairs

    Three days after its departure, in the early hours of 28 January 2003, the Yamdena was bailed up by the HMAS Fremantle, a Royal Australian Navy vessel on routine patrol. No doubt the fishing boat had already been spotted by one of the Coastwatch surveillance...

  • As You Like It: An interview with Geoffrey Rush
    Peter Craven | The Monthly Essays | Theatre | April 2007 | Society & Culture
    Geoffrey Rush's last appearance on an Australian stage was in 2002, with Life x 3, in which he and his wife, Jane Menelaus, transfigured the production and made it dance through a great whirligig of typologies. Well, he is back on stage again with a new production, by...
  • Lost in the Woods: Norman Mailer’s 'The Castle in the Forest' The Online Monthly - subscriber only access
    Inga Clendinnen | Books | April 2007

    Lately I have been pursuing novelists who seem to think they are writing near-enough history, when in fact they are making it up. Now two heavyweights have slipped into the ring: Nobel-winner JM Coetzee, and the long-time champ of the American Middleweight Literary Division,...