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News from around the traps.
Kerrie O’Brien tells the story of Martin Flanagan.
Moira Rayner reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History.
Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell
As Melbourne Cup time comes round each year, I remember—with a mixture of dread and triumph—the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Lecture that I gave on Tuesday, 5 November, in the Chancellors Hall of the University of London Senate House in 1996.
John Howard and Alexander Downer do Australia no favours in suggesting that to place Australia’s interests ahead of those of the United States, is proof of anti-Americanism or unsound policy.
Troy Bramston takes a closer look at America’s founding fathers in Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation: Washington, Jefferson, Adams.
Reviews of the books: Geography; Stem Cells: Science, Medicine, Law and Ethics and John F. Kennedy: An unfinished life.
The legacy of the Felton Bequest
Senator Eugene Mccarthy
Reviews of the books Labour of Love: Tales from the World of Midwives; The Long, Slow Death of White Australia and The Dead Place.
Jack Carmody reflects on the life of Fr Ted Kennedy, pastor to Sydney’s urban indigenous community.