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Keywords: Golden Years

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Nathan Kensey, Daniel Marti, Aaron Martin, Beth Doherty
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Who did this to our Bali?; Off Course: From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University; Dark Dreams, Australian refugee stories by young writers; A history of the devil:  From the Middle Ages to the present.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    City terraces

    • Philip Harvey
    • 11 May 2006

    Peter Yule’s Carlton: A History reviewed by Philip Harvey.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The new Jews of Berlin

    • Dorothy Horsfield
    • 08 May 2006

    Dorothy Horsfield visits the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Kate Stowell, Lauren Hunt, Andrew Hamilton, Vincent O’Kane
    • 08 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Portuguese Irregular Verbs; Dark nights of the soul;The people next door: Understanding Indonesia and Golden Threads: The Chinese in regional New South Wales.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Plus ça change

    • Brian Matthews
    • 29 April 2006

    When February dawned last year, I had been living in a small Provençal village for about a month.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The arc of European reconciliation

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 29 April 2006

    Both the Dresden firestorm and the Holocaust were products of the insidious tendency in wartime for the previously unthinkable to become routine.

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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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  • AUSTRALIA

    Braving our inner weather

    • Jenny Stewart
    • 25 April 2006
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    The journey towards understanding our depression can be the most worthwhile, and the most taxing, that we ever make

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A ship and a harbour

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 25 April 2006

    Travelling in order to see how different people live is essential to the formation of a genuine tolerance of other cultures.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Searching for Borrisnoe

    • Peter Hamilton
    • 21 April 2006
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    It’s a long way to Tipperary from New York, via Victoria, and once there it’s not so easy to trace your grandmother’s footsteps

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Pepysian paradox

    • Luke Fraser
    • 21 April 2006

    Samuel Pepys’s diaries chronicling London life in the 17th century—now on the internet—remain as fresh and engaging as ever

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    City of tarnished glories

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 21 April 2006

    Sarah Kanowski savours Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a City.  

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