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Christine Trimingham Jack’s Growing Good Catholic Girls: Education and Convent Life in Australia brings back memories for Alana Harris.
Stephen Holt reviews Michael Gilchrist’s Wit and Wisdom: Daniel Mannix
Letters from John Kelly, David Holdcroft, John Carmody
John Button on Aneurin Hughes’s Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Labor Party.
Andrew Hamilton reflects on Marion Maddox’s God under Howard: The Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics.
John Button reviews The Great Labor Schism: A Retrospective, edited by Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio.
The healing begins
Tom Butler (1915–2005): lawyer, editor of the Catholic Worker newspaper