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October 2015

October 2015

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Essays

Society

Coal crash

Paul Cleary

How long can Australia ride in the coal wagon?

Books

Australia and I

By Will Self

A British author’s complicated relationship with the island continent

Music

The lost art of listening

By Anna Goldsworthy

Has classical music become irrelevant?

The Nation Reviewed

Federal politics

An era over

By Nick Feik

Exit Abbott, enter Turnbull

Issues and policies

The house loses

By Julian Meyrick

The Australia Council’s history of challenges and challengers

Society

Lee Lin’s double life

By Benjamin Law

Lee Lin Chin’s rise from SBS newsreader to queen of satire

Books

The Ipswich treehouse story

By Ashley Hay

Children’s lit heroes Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton and Jill Griffiths step off the page and onto the stage

Film

Passion projects

By Sam Twyford-Moore

Brian & Karl make films that speak their own languages

Vox

The Vox Owl

The rule of law, soap-opera style

By Phillip Gwynne

An Australian author writes for Burmese television

Arts & Letters

Books

Ferrantissimo

By Helen Elliott

The femaleness of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

Film

An eye for tyrants

By Peter Conrad

Snowtown director Justin Kurzel takes on ‘Macbeth’

Music

Standing on the outside

By Anwen Crawford

Cold Chisel reconsidered

Film

Don’t call me ‘Whitey’

By Luke Davies

Corruption and collusion in Scott Cooper’s ‘Black Mass’

Noted

October 2015

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