CONTENTS OF PRINT ISSUE - APRIL 2002
COMMENT
4 Peter Steele Arisings
5 Michael McKernan Defence mechanisms
SNAPSHOT
8 Art and life, what's in a name, olé, in a word, and the
canonical Spike.
LETTERS
10 Tony Helm; Peter C. Gaughwin; John Dobinson; Philip Mendes, Clare Griffin
and Amanda Jones
THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC
12 Juliette Hughes Chasing cuts
13 Brian Walters Growing tall
15 Anthony Ham Across Jordan
16 Duncan Campbell Grey areas
17 John Ferguson Unto the breach
COLUMNS
7 Capital Letter
Jack Waterford Character references
14 Summa Theologiae
Andrew Hamilton Holy role models
17 Archimedes
Tim Thwaites Two wheels good
30 By the Way
Brian Matthews Sheeting home
50 Watching Brief
Juliette Hughes Tuning in
FEATURES
19 What lies beneath
Jack Waterford ponders the scuttling of the Westminster tradition.
22 Getting through
Michele M. Gierck profiles Nick Lawson of Médecins Sans
Frontières.
24 Reprising China
Trevor Hay revisits China and finds the residue of the Cultural
Revolution.
28 Regarding children
Forget the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse—focus on the
rights of children, argues Moira Rayner.
COVER STORY
31 A better way
Mark Raper and Frank Brennan look beyond the stalemate of
the ‘Pacific solution' to an asylum seeker policy that would
work and be just.
THEATRE
38 Playing it in
Geoffrey Milne reviews the ‘Blak Inside' Playbox season.
POETRY
40 Peter Porter Scordatura
BOOKS
42 The short list
Reviews of Studies in the Book of Revelation; Earth Revealing—Earth
Healing: Ecology and Christian Theology; Daughters of the Dreaming; Jesus:
A Colloquium in the Holy Land and The Christian Doctrine of God:
One Being Three Persons.
43 Blainey's Lawson
Michael McGirr reviews Henry Lawson: Edited and Introduced by
Geoffrey Blainey.
44 Mourning war
Peter Pierce finds connections between Joy Damousi's Living
with the Aftermath and Michael McKernan's This War Never Ends.
46 A final barbarity
Juliette Hughes reviews Mike Richards'; The Hanged Man:
The Life & Death of Ronald Ryan.
FLASH IN THE PAN
48 Reviews of the films Charlotte Gray; A Beautiful Mind; Black Hawk
Down; L'Emploi du Temps and Gosford Park.
SPECIFIC LEVITY
51 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword
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