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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Confessions of a rogue library book buyer

    • Malcolm King
    • 04 February 2008
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    In October 1998, the writer raided departmental library budgets in order to place in his university library, $27,000 worth of books he believed it should own. Before leaving his job, he inspected the books in the library and was convinced he had "done good by doing bad".

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The creatures & their words

    • Peter Steele
    • 06 July 2006

    Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fast forward

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 12 June 2006

    Although it feels like last Christmas was only about four months back, it also seems like a year since Reggie Bird walked out of the Big Brother house, and an absolute aeon since Kath & Kim finished.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A sickle moon

    • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    • 18 May 2006

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Piety parodied

    • Peter Pierce
    • 14 May 2006

    Peter Pierce identifies a salutary failure in Rowan Metcalfe’s Transit of Venus.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The great divide

    • Virginia Bourke
    • 14 May 2006

    Virginia Bourke examines the assumptions that underlie equality in parenting and work.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Future nation

    • Gerard Brennan
    • 11 May 2006

    Sir Gerard Brennan’s address at the launch of Mark McKenna’s This Country: A Reconciled Republic?

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