May 2009 Volume LIII, No. 5

The Bombing of Darwin

Tom Frame
The Widow Clicquot
Philippa Martyr
Melbourne Burning
Ashlley Morgan-Shae
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World, by Robert Kenny
Robert Murray
Giving It Away
Hal G.P. Colebatch
Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right, by Paul Edward Gottfried
Peter Kocan

Art

Pictorial Banquet

Giles Auty

An Art Lover’s Artist

Douglas Hassall

The Impulse to Make Art

Patricia Anderson

Defence

Devine

Popping Fifty Corks

Frank Devine

Fiction

Two Bottle Blues

Graham Sheil

Henry

Libby Sommer

Film

Lenny and Ludwig

Neil McDonald

First Person

White Spirit

Miranda Siemienowicz

Short Takes V

Alan Gould

Health

History

Displacement

Trudi Tate

Law

A Bill of Wrongs

John Izzard

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Alan Stephens, Murray Mitchell, J.B. Paul

Literature

Politics

Tories by Chance

James Allan

Ryan

The Doves of War

Peter Ryan

Society

Giving It Away

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Theatre

Three-sided stories

Michael Connor

Poetry

Melbourne Burning

Ashlley Morgan-Shae

Greaseproof Rose

Les Murray

Ten Haiku

Gary Hotham

What to Pack

Jennifer Compton

Two Poems

John West

Six Poems

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

Words to a Tango

David Chandler

The Cliche Eaters

Jillian Pattinson

Two Poems

Suzanne Edgar