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Catherine Ford
Every evening before dinner, I escort my infinitely forbearing dog out of the house and into the world on his nightly constitutional. Lance...
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CULTURE
This Helplessness
Steven Amsterdam
I’m afraid we don’t have a lot of choices for treatment here.” “You mean I don’t have a lot of choices?” “Yes.” “Then I’m the one who’s...
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CULTURE
Line of Appeal: Meeting Andrew Fraser
Jack Marx
There is perhaps no justice quite so poetic as when an errant lawyer goes to jail. Like the image of a prancing matador being hoist to the...
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SOCIETY
Bush Love
Benjamin Law
In retrospect, we had been warned. Days before we arrived at Wooroolin’s Peanut Pullers and Backfatters Ball – an annual singles’ event in...
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The Wild Frontier: The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads
Mandy Sayer
Martin climbs off his bike and walks through the piles of rubbish towards the verandah. It’s then that he sniffs a deeper, ruder stench:...
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Ebony: The Girl in the Room
Anne Manne
An ambulance officer looks around the room and breathes in the smell. It looks more like the bleakest of prison cells than a little girl’s...
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Lost Boys: Jacques Audiard's 'A Prophet' and John Hillcoat's 'The Road'
Luke Davies
In A Prophet, a dazzling new film about innocence and power from Jacques Audiard (director of The Beat My Heart Skipped, 2005), 19-year-old...
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Neon Statements: Joseph Kosuth and Conceptual Art
Justin Clemens
At the beginning of the 1960s, the New York art scene was going wild. World War II had created the conditions for the city to become the...
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This Year's Model: Fashion's Coming of Age
Clare Press
Those with an appreciation of the firm and youthful female form may be interested to ogle Terry Richardson’s photographs of the latest crop...
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Headlock: Ryan Fleck’s ‘Half Nelson’
Luke Davies
Of all the heart-of-gold narratives in cinema it is the prostitute with a heart of gold that has rankled most and fared worst, in terms of...
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Katie Cohen
The first time I met Richard Nicoll he was in a Sydney cocktail lounge, looking rather hangdog about a recently broken love affair. The...
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