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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Frontier romance

    • Radhika Gorur
    • 31 May 2006

    Radhika Gorur reviews Brigid Hains’ The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Basil Hume: Spiritual celebrity in secular Britain

    • Michael Ashby
    • 29 May 2006

    Basil Hume died as one of the most respected religious figures of the twentieth century.  He was able to balance London and Rome without losing local liberals, or incurring curial and papal ire.   

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Letter from a Chinese restaurant

    • Michael McGirr
    • 22 May 2006

    Michael McGirr farewells Alistair Cooke.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Guerrilla to President: Xanana Gusmão

    • Sara Niner
    • 22 May 2006

    This year’s May anniversary of independence for Timor Leste is Xanana Gusmão’s second as President and the country’s fifth as a free territory. Sara Niner looks at the current political machinations.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The Irish legacy

    • Stephen Holt
    • 22 May 2006

    Stephen Holt reviews Michael Gilchrist’s Wit and Wisdom: Daniel Mannix

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • John Kelly, David Holdcroft, John Carmody
    • 14 May 2006

    Letters from John Kelly, David Holdcroft, John Carmody

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Loves Labor lost

    • Michael McGirr
    • 14 May 2006

    Ross McMullins’ So Monstrous a Tragedy: Chris Watson and the world’s first national labour government is reviewed by Michael McGirr.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Paradise gained and lost

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 14 May 2006

    Andrew Hamilton reviews Luther’s Pine: an Autobiography, by John Molony.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cut from the same cloth

    • Nicholas Gruen
    • 14 May 2006

    The lives of Ned Kelly and Oscar Wilde bear uncanny symmetries.    

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Rebel remains a mystery

    • Peter Pierce
    • 14 May 2006

    Peter Pierce onThe  Autobiography of  Wilfred Burchett.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Peter Pierce, Andrew Hamilton, Jennifer Moran, Robert Hefner
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of  Carry  Me Down, Great Australian Racing  Stories, The Story of Christianity  and Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On Loane

    • Avril Hannah-Jones
    • 11 May 2006

    Avril Hannah-Jones reviews Marcus L. Loane: A biography.

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