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Thoughts from Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell
Greg Barns on the life of Xavier Herbert.
Thoughts from around the nation
No fewer than eight Fellows of the Royal Society of London were taught and inspired at secondary school by one science teacher, Len Basser of Sydney Boys High School. This fact emerged from the 2004 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.
The artists of the Kimberley capture more than images
An irony about scientists’ traditional lack of interest in politics is that science is profoundly socially disturbing—especially for ideologues with a conservative point of view.
Warning signs for the Whitlam Government were there in 1974, with an ailing economy, a political storm in the Senate, sliding popularity and a scandal unfolding in secret.
Ralph Elliott reviews Gustav Born’s new edition of Max Born’s The Born-Einstein Letters 1916 –1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.
Travelling in order to see how different people live is essential to the formation of a genuine tolerance of other cultures.
Luke Fraser reviews Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900, by Tony Roberts.
Peter Pierce reviews Colin Dyer’s The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839 and Bruce Poulson’s Recherche Bay: A History.
Aboriginal communities across central Australia, struggling with the scourge of petrol sniffing, have been told it’s their problem—fix it.