December 2011 – January 2012

December 2011 – January 2012

Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Cartoon
Cover: December 2011 - January 2012

December 2011 – January 2012 eBook

Cover: December 2011 - January 2012
Essays The Nation Reviewed Vox Arts & Letters Noted Cartoon
Aussie battlers demand a fair go at the Occupy Melbourne protest, 15 October 2011. © Mal Fairclough / Fairfax Syndication
Army medic Jacqui de Gelder ready to heal or harm as necessary, Afghanistan, September 2009. © Gary Ramage / Newspix

Gender

The lady killers

By Anne Summers

Women in the military

Cory Bernadi standing for something, 2011. © Matt Turner / Newspix / News Limited

Federal politics

All about Cory

By Sally Neighbour

Cory Bernardi, conservative warrior

Campbell Newman, go-to (and go-go) guy, July 2011. © Chris McCormack / Newspix / News Ltd
An illustration of the proposed Project Daedalus starship. © Nick Stevens

Science and technology

The stars my destination

By Luke Davies

The 100 Year Starship Symposium

Caravaggio's Saint Jerome, the patron saint of scholars. Wikimedia Commons

Books

The life not lived

By Peter Robb

Reflections on scholarship

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Primitive educational techniques, Sydney, 1965. © Hopwood / Fairfax Syndication
Illustration by Jeff Fisher.

Environment

Work and play

By Christine Kenneally

Melbourne Zoo at 150

Illustration by Jeff Fisher.

Society

Island rising

By Fiona McGregor

Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour

Illustration by Jeff Fisher.

Art

The sitting act

By Charlotte Wood

Portrait Painting

Illustration by Jeff Fisher.

History

The Baskerville case

By Ashley Hay

Norfolk Island’s chickens

Arts & Letters  Right arrow

Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
The Orange-bellied parrot
Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
No script, no storyboard
Nigel Thomson, 'Manoly Lascaris', 1994 (detail). Oil on linen. Private collection. Image courtesy of the Manly Art Gallery and Museum.

Books

No one comes to see me now

By Debra Adelaide

Manoly Lascaris and Patrick White’s ghost

Hans Poulsen on a natural high, 1971.

Music

Treasure in the attic

By Robert Forster

The golden age of singer–songwriters

An auteur planet

An auteur planet

By Peter Conrad

Pedro Almodóvar’s 'The Skin I Live In' and Lars von Trier’s 'Melancholia'

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'Foal’s Bread' By Gillian Mears, Allen and Unwin, 376pp; $32.99
'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia' By Bill Gammage, Allen and Unwin, 384pp; $49.99
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Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
Words: Shane Maloney | Illustration: Chris Grosz
December 2011 – January 2012