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    Judith Brett | The Nation Reviewed | May 2007 | Politics
    Received wisdom among election watchers holds that the Australian electorate does not throw out governments when the economy is doing well. When governments changed in 1972, 1983 and 1996, the economy was just coming out of or heading into troubled waters, and this explains the...
  • The Beast of Beethoven
    Anna Goldsworthy | The Nation Reviewed | May 2007 | Society & Culture
    The first person we met in Townsville was Kirtley Leigh Payne, the Barrier Reef Orchestra's glamorous guest concertmaster. She had been chauffeured from her home in Cairns by Bobby, a large, affable Englishman of pastel colours: white hair, pink skin, watery blue eyes. He...
  • Out of Africa
    Gideon Haigh | The Nation Reviewed | May 2007 | Society & Culture
    In the 1960s, one of the catchcries of the anti-apartheid movement seeking the exile of South African athletes was "no normal sport in an abnormal society". So judgemental. Surely that should have been "differently abled" society. And hey, what's normal...
  • Storm Spotters
    Ashley Hay | The Nation Reviewed | May 2007 | Environment
    It's not every day you get to call Zeus, but that's what it felt like as I dialled the number for Andrew Haigh at the Bureau of Meteorology in Sydney. It's probably not precisely what's on his business card, but I was looking for someone to talk to about big...