May 2013 Volume LVII, No. 5
Three Poems
Aboriginal Questions
Two Poems
Platypus
Blue Bottles
Inheritance
Contents
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Nicolas Rothwell (at present the Australian’s man in the Northern […]
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Jesmond Park Lovers hold one another tight, tense and still […]
May 1, 2013
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Trees, trees You have quit the city. If the trees overtake […]
May 1, 2013
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I have her cup complete with chip, Crazed pattern, Nothing […]
May 1, 2013
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High Water at Lake George A windmill’s caught calf-deep […]
May 1, 2013
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Well Anyway by Dal Stivens, introduction by Harry Heseltine Arcadia, […]
May 1, 2013
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Mali Blues Guitarist That buzz in the note because the […]
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Turtle Turning Wearing its storm-trooper’s helmet which is both rain-shelter […]
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Schrodinger’s Cat Driving down from the mountains in a gum-laden […]
May 1, 2013
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Cutting Perspex His soldier mouth suggests a man at […]
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Clouds Like an Ice Shelf Clouds like an ice shelf; […]
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Moon Dreaming In the mountains where the Otways run into […]
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Rothwell on the New Pitjantjatjara Paintings A painting titled […]
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The Dr Seuss That Switched His Voice He switched to […]
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A professional soldier is rarely a professional strategist. —B.H. Liddell […]
May 1, 2013
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Mrs Thatcher—and it seems more appropriate on her death to […]
May 1, 2013
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Australia faces an epoch-defining challenge. With the global population projected […]
May 1, 2013
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Most Australians know the song “Waltzing Matilda”: Once a jolly […]
May 1, 2013
24 mins
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Let me stress from the outset that I think the […]
May 1, 2013
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In cumulative terms, between 2006 and 2011 China’s income levels […]
May 1, 2013
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Between the 1950s and mid-1970s, approximately 150,000 babies of unwed, […]
May 1, 2013
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In one of his more imaginative moments, the German poet […]
May 1, 2013
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I visited an interstate friend of mine a few years […]
May 1, 2013
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Child abuse and mistreatment in Aboriginal communities are endemic and […]
May 1, 2013
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The current model of the Australian university is broken. The […]
May 1, 2013
21 mins
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Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet by […]
May 1, 2013
12 mins
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The Maligned Squatter SIR: The evil squatters still get a […]
May 1, 2013
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J.B. Paul’s two-part article on “The Downfall of Gough Whitlam” […]
May 1, 2013
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On February 23 the Australian National University hosted a seminar […]
May 1, 2013
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Most lay people, in Australia, do not know what an […]
May 1, 2013
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Here is one of Kierkegaard’s most arresting images: a man […]
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Funding Games As We Forgive is a new play written […]
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In 2003, Noel Henricksen introduced Island and Otherland, his literary […]
May 1, 2013
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Why read the classics? The typical answer to that question […]
May 1, 2013
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The Australian government, belatedly realising the visual acuity of young […]
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The semi-operatic film and stage versions of Victor Hugo’s massive […]
May 1, 2013
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His mother had gone mad after thirty years of wifeship. […]
May 1, 2013
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It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened […]
May 1, 2013
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