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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pride of Erin

    • John Carmody, Morag Fraser, Peter Pierce
    • 05 June 2006

    Pride of Erin | Across the fence | Descending gloom

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Lost in the battle

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 31 May 2006

    Jane Mayo Carolan considers Jim Griffin’s John Wren: A life reconsidered.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Felicity in love

    • Mary Manning
    • 22 May 2006

    Mary Manning interviews English novelist Salley Vickers.

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  • RELIGION

    Are we asleep at the wheel?

    • Frank Brennan
    • 14 May 2006

    In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    History remembered

    • Matthew Lamb
    • 08 May 2006

    Matthew Lamb looks at Stuart Macintyre’s The historian’s conscience.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The third Great Bang

    • Mary Manning
    • 29 April 2006

    I haven’t decided what I will do in my next life although the people who organise these things have been sending me reminders about it for the past two years.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Heart cuisine

    • Robert Hefner
    • 25 April 2006

    Robert Hefner recalls a special woman and a special place in Food for Thought at Manning Clark House, edited by Sandy Forbes and Janet Reeves.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    No wannabes or posers

    • D.L. Lewis
    • 21 April 2006

    D. L. Lewis welcomes Robert Holden’s Crackpots, Rebels and Ratbags.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Brian Matthews

    • Brian Matthews

    Brian Matthews writes the By the Way column for Eureka Street. Brian is honorary Professor of English at Flinders University, Adelaide where he taught for 25 years and was awarded Flinders' first Personal Chair in English. He was Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Oregon, 1986, and subsequently held visiting professorships at the universities of Trento, Venice and Bologna. He was head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies and professor of Australian studies at the University of London, 1993–96. In 1997 he became foundation director of the Europe Australia Institute at Victoria University, Melbourne. As a writer of biography, fiction and memoir and as a columnist for the Weekend Australian Magazine and Eureka Street, he has won numerous

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