November 2013 Volume LVIII, No. 11
Daddy Killed a Rattler
Norman Lindsay: Eros and Obscenity
What JFK’s Assassination Did to America
Brisbane Life and Tokyo Justice
Australia’s Maritime Identity
A Plan for a Better Health System
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If, when you lift your thighs, they unstick with […]November 29, 2013
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"I wasn’t prepared for the offensiveness of some of Norman Lindsay’s malformed opinions. I discovered that Lindsay’s ideas were the obscenity. His celebrated and beautiful work starkly contrasted with the often despicable nature of his views"November 27, 2013
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Lee Harvey Oswald’s three rapid-fire shots played no small role in transforming America from a country of optimism, self-belief and informed patriotism into something far less sanguineNovember 22, 2013
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Ian Callinan’s book appears alongside several others graphically describing the experience of Australian prisoners of war on the Burma railway. It is one of the bestNovember 19, 2013
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Given its dependence on oceanic trade and sea lines of communication, one might expect Australians — like their British and American cousins — to be natural seafarers. The peculiar trajectory of our national culture has put pay to that
November 17, 2013
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Tony Abbott implored us to vote for change. Time will tell if we get what the Coalition has promised or whether political correctness and populism will see policy shaped by bureaucrats and the media.
November 14, 2013
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There are moments when the new Pontiff can sound very much like a spokesman for the Occupy movement, but his philosophy and goals are likely to go beyond the mere propagation of slogansNovember 6, 2013
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The Lemon Tree Syndrome Howard, now dead longtime, took […]
November 1, 2013
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The Photographer’s Son Stephen Orr On from Barmera, towards […]
November 1, 2013
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“Inspector Morse is dead!” Sergeant Lewis shouts to one of […]
November 1, 2013
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Laws are being made via executive decree and the power of standing bureaucracies becomes ever greater. The institutions that have sustained us are wilting
November 1, 2013
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“The Khmer Rouge doesn’t eat rice,” said Tuon Chay, “they […]
November 1, 2013
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Constructing the World by David J. Chalmers Oxford University Press, […]
November 1, 2013
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Before the Second World War, when psychiatry was held in […]
November 1, 2013
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Dr John Wear Burton (1915–2010) was the Secretary and Permanent […]
November 1, 2013
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Essential tremor I am the trembling man. I tremble […]
November 1, 2013
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Like no other European country, Spain with its recent history […]
November 1, 2013
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The Bay from Williamstown Under looming rain the bay […]
November 1, 2013
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19/6/09: Why the bagpipes? On Classic FM this afternoon […]
November 1, 2013
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Australia’s Wars SIR: Much is brilliant, and much is […]
November 1, 2013
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On October 3 last, at the Chief of Army’s annual […]
November 1, 2013
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Party Time: Who Runs China and How by Rowan Callick […]
November 1, 2013
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When I arrived in Japan to be interviewed for a […]
November 1, 2013
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Fragile Flame: The Uniqueness and Vulnerability of Scientific and Technological […]
November 1, 2013
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I have travelled to many countries but never to a […]
November 1, 2013
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Our neighbour gave us his Bulletins When he had […]
November 1, 2013
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Asian Dawn by Michael Wilding Australian Scholarly, 2013, 226 pages, […]
November 1, 2013
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Australia today has the second-largest reserves of iron ore in […]
November 1, 2013
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Confusion and incoherence in the theory and practice of war—who […]
November 1, 2013
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Switch on First there was an open-air version of […]
November 1, 2013
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Australian Love Poems 2013 edited by Mark Tredinnick Inkerman & […]
November 1, 2013
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