Australian History: Ned Kelly
CULTURE
Plotting the perfect crime. Michael Robotham and Tess Gerritsen
Are great crime writers non-practising criminals?Two masters, international bestseller Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli and Isles novels) and Ned...
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SOCIETY
Riding High: The Toyota HiLux and the Tradie’s New World
Don Watson
Climb into a Toyota HiLux and at once you feel “the commanding outlook”. It’s just as the brochure says. Nissan Navara lacks very little in...
More ...The Absent Heart
Amanda Lohrey
The Powerhouse is not atypical; it exists within a broader museum culture in Australia that tends toward the lacklustre and the disjointed...
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SOCIETY
Ned Kelly Unearthed: New discoveries and explorations (p3)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The Kelly Gang's legendary last stand at the Glenrowan Inn is an iconic event in Victorian history. But how...
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SOCIETY
Ned Kelly Unearthed: New discoveries and explorations (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3The Kelly Gang's legendary last stand at the Glenrowan Inn is an iconic event in Victorian history. But how...
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SOCIETY
Ned Kelly Unearthed: New discoveries and explorations
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (Question time)The Kelly Gang's legendary last stand at the Glenrowan Inn is an iconic event in Victorian...
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School for Gangsters: 'Underbelly' and 'The Wire'
Alan Saunders
“Was that like a movie or what?” says one young thug to another after a shoot-up at a petrol station. We’re in the middle of the Melbourne...
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Sub-prime: Peter Carey's 'Parrot and Olivier in America'
Philip Hensher
Peter Carey said a decade ago: “My fictional project has always been the invention or discovery of my own country.” Whatever place he meant...
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Familiar Compound Ghosts: Nancy Underhill’s ‘Nolan on Nolan’ & Darleen Bungey’s ‘Arthur Boyd’
Patrick McCaughey
... in the waning duskI caught the look of some dead masterWhom I had known, forgotten, half recalledBoth one and many; in the brown baked...
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A Dandy Comes a Cropper: It's a very Australian thing to glorfy the rich, famous and dead. And yet Rene Rivkin was never really one of us, was he?
Craig Sherborne
Rivkin Unauthorised? What a redundant title. Rivkin’s dead, and hardly in a position to authorise anything. Andrew Main’s book, one of the...
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