October 2012

October 2012

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The Mailman express

Nick Bryant

An actress on a roll

The Mailman express
© Andrew Taylor/Reuters

Tony Abbott

Junk politics

By Mungo MacCallum

The pursuit of character over substance

Major-General John Cantwell (CENTRE) in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, in 2010. © Brent Tero/ISAF Media

Issues and policies

A price too high

By John Cantwell

It's time to cut and run

'Echo and Narcissus' (detail), 1903, John William Waterhouse

Echo Chamber

By Linda Jaivin

Confessions of a graphomaniac

Lucas Stibbard in 'Boy Girl Wall'. © Al Caeiro

Theatre

Boy Girl Roadie

By Benjamin Law

Have play, will travel

George Rrurrambu from Warumpi Band (R) and Marcus McDonald (L), Papunya, 2003. © Steven Siewert/Fairfax Syndication

Theatre

Desert Songs

By Paul Kelly

Thirty years of Australia's hidden hit parade

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Roy Henry Tipiloura votes in Arnhem Land. © Glenn Campbell/Fairfax Syndication

Indigenous rights

Comment: It’s a knockout

By Marcia Langton

How the Aboriginal vote won the NT election

Terrorism

In it together

By Waleed Aly

Australia and Indonesia since the Bali bombings

Criminal justice

Lost cause

By Helen Garner

Defending the indefensible

Jack’s a ripper

By Chloe Hooper

Melbourne Museum's bowerbird artist

Parenting

Doctor’s orders

By Tony Wilson

Sex surrogacy cleans up at Sundance

The master

By John Clare

Happy birthday, Bernie McGann

Richard Dawkins

The big nothing

By Amanda Lohrey

Lawrence Krauss and arse-kicking physics

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Illustration by Jeff Fisher.
Composer Brett Dean © Pawel Kopczynski
The Pigram Brothers. © Helen Jedwab
'Of Mice and Men', Opera Australia, 2011. © Branco Gaica
'Gemini', The Australian Ballet, 2012. © Jeff Busby
'Persona', Fraught Outfit, 2012. © Pia Johnson
'One to One', Callum Morton, 2011. © John Brash
RMIT Swanston Academic Building, Lyons Architects, 2012. Image supplied.
Plain tobacco packaging, Australian Government, 2012. Image supplied.
'Hail', Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 2011. Image supplied.
Patrick White at Cambridge in the early 1930s. National Library of Australia
'The Voyage', Murray Bail, Text; $29.99

Fiction

Bringing it Home

By John Banville

Murray Bail's 'The Voyage'

The Museum of Innocence, Istanbul. © Tolga Bozoglu/Corbis

Literature

The novel lives

By Alexandra Coghlan

Visiting Orhan Pamuk’s 'Museum of Innocence'

Jeffrey Smart, 'Self Portrait at Papini's', 1984-5, oil and acrylic on canvas, 85 x 115 cm, private collection. © Jeffrey Smart

Art

Smart guy

By Doug Hall

Jeffrey Smart

Claude Debussy, c.1900. Photo: Pierre Louys. © Adoc/Corbis

World War I

He’s so this century

By Andrew Ford

Claude Debussy

Amy French, Kumpaya Girgiba and Miriam Atkins in front of French and Lily Long's 'Karlamilyi'. © Fremantle Arts Centre

The logic of water

By Gail Bell

Meeting the Martu artists of the East Pilbara

The freewheelin' Alex Gow. Image supplied.

Slurring and Purring

By Robert Forster

Oh Mercy’s 'Deep Heat'

The games of men

The games of men

By Luke Davies

Andrew Dominik's 'Killing Them Softly'

Brett Whiteley painting Francis Bacon's portrait, London, 1984. Photograph by John Edwards. Image courtesy of Art Gallery NSW.

Anecdotes

By Murray Bail

Remembering Australian painters

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'Montebello', Robert Drewe, Hamish Hamilton; $29.99
'Questions of Travel', Michelle de Kretser, Allen and Unwin; $39.99
'Silent House', Orhan Pamuk, Hamish Hamilton; $29.99
'Lore' by Cate Shortland (director)
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Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz
Words: Shane Maloney | Illustration: Chris Grosz
October 2012