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The city cyclo traffic could be negotiated because cramped spaces have generated considerate attitudes rather than rage. Physical accommodations to crowding and privation tempt the traveller into laudatory flights, but the people’s attitudes seem altogether too matter-of-fact.
Lean Cuisine and single flannelette sheets to the heaven / of anywhere else. Born for higher things, a fair share / of paradise beyond the pale of suburban confinement.
Powerful prose from a young indigenous woman that makes you remember the feelings of your home, your family, your losses and regrets, and yet makes you determined to continue.
Karen Kissane’s book on the murder of Julie Ramage by her husband makes us ask ourselves whether the private attitudes that allowed men to claim provocation as a defence for killing their partners have really changed. Do they also need to be overhauled?
Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.
Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
The Regency spinster’s novels have never been more popular
John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life
The cost of raising a child is no measure of a parent’s love.
Kirsty Grant reveals a world of decadence in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much
Radhika Gorur reviews Brigid Hains’ The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier.