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December 2012 – January 2013

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John McTernan, Parliament House, Canberra, 20 April 2012. © Penny Bradfield/Fairfax Syndication

Julia Gillard

The Strategist

By Nick Bryant

Julia Gillard’s hard-nosed director of communications

Image from ‘The Last Diggers’ by Ross Coulthart. Courtesy of HarperCollins.

World War I

Lest We Inflate

By Mark McKenna

Why do Australians lust for heroic war stories?

Anna Funder © Marco Del Grande/Fairfax Syndication

Literature

Free Agent

By Peter Conrad

Anna Funder finds her feet in Brooklyn

On the Nose

History

On the Nose

By Malcolm Knox

The rise of cricket’s faceless men

Michael Peterson in ‘Morning of the Earth’, February 1971. © Albert Falzon

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By Robert Forster

Memories of a surfing legend

Görlitzer Park, Berlin. © Cristiano Corsini
Sydney. © Dean Sewell
Ulladulla. © Dean Sewell
Ulladulla. © Dean Sewell
New York. © Thomas Filippini
New York. © Thomas Filippini
South Australia. © Dean Sewell

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Julia Gillard visiting the Forbidden City, Beijing, April 2011. © David Foote/Commonwealth of Australia

Foreign Policy

White-papering the Cracks

By Hugh White

A blueprint for the Asian Century?

US politics

A Less Perfect Union

By Peter Conrad

Obama’s next challenge

Lights Out

By Ashley Hay

Solar eclipse in Queensland

ALP

Messages for Gough

By Michael Gurr

Forty years since ‘It’s Time’

Bob Brown

Environmental Flows

By Bob Brown

How the Franklin was saved

Notes from a Small Town

By Chloe Hooper

Students getting into the groove

Spire Dreaming

By Jo Lennan

A Bidjara man in Oxford

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JM Coetzee, Cape Town, 1991. Image supplied

South Africa

On His Terms

By Alexandra Coghlan

JC Kannemeyer’s ‘JM Coetzee: A Life in Writing’

An abandoned cafe in the asbestos-riddled ghost town of Wittenoom, WA. Wikimedia Commons
Record Paradise, St Kilda, Melbourne. © Richard Kelly/emptysleeve.com
As it Comes

As it Comes

By Luke Davies

Jacques Audiard’s ‘Rust and Bone’

A Modern Mensch

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‘Butcher Paper Texta Blackboard and Chalk: A Songbook and CD’ by Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach, One Day Hill; $25.00
‘Love Story’ by Florian Habicht (director), In limited release
‘The Rainbow Troops’ by Andrea Hirata, Vintage; $32.95
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Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
Words: Shane Maloney | Illustration: Chris Grosz
December 2012 – January 2013

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