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With characters at low points in their lives, Nights in the Asylum is saved from being a dark novel by moments where care and love bring positive change.
The last state authorised execution in Australia—that of Ronald Ryan—occurred 40 years ago last week. 12 year old Frank Brennan felt it was wrong. His adolescent moral sensibilities found resonance in public debate, law reform and policy change.
It was 1983, the year the Australian Broadcasting Commission became the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The first volume of Ken Inglis' history of the ABC had just been published, and new Board member Sister Veronica Brady read every word of it.
While musing on current events in Lebanon, Brian Matthews' globe of memory begins to spin back to a time and place perhaps not so different to today.
Reviews of Frontier Justice: Weapons of mass destruction and the bushwacking of America; Best Australian political cartoons and Quarterly Essay, ‘Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance’.
Alex McDermott examines Brett Hutchins’ Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth.
Fiction by Mary Manning
John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life
The birthplace of a nation? Anzac Cove lies in wait for Australian pilgrims.
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.
Andrew Coorey proclaims The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning.