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01 January 2004
Geoffrey Blainey’s Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily life in a vanished Australia is a welcome discovery for Deborah Gare.
Long before there was a monopoly on gambling, there were nit-keepers, discovers David Glanz.
Poem by Kate Llewellyn
Reviews of the films Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World; In The Cut; Mystic River and Nicholas Nickleby.
Poem by M.L. Escott
Inga Clendinnen’s Dancing with Strangers entrances Kirsty Sangster.
We have to take racism seriously, says Anthony Ham.
Rebecca Marsh considers Naomi Klein’s challenge to the multinationals in No Logo.
Margaret Coffey reviews Sean McConville’s weighty tome, Irish Political Prisoners, 1848–1922, Theatres of War.
Dewi Anggraeni examines Australia’s ambivalence towards Asia by J.V. D’Cruz and William Steele.
New Year’s resolutions: 1. No more TV IQ tests that expose one’s innumeracies and estimate one’s intelligence at somewhere between a One Nation voter and a newt.
Kerrie O’Brien contacts some entertaining ghosts in Blithe Spirit.
Reviews of Frontier Justice: Weapons of mass destruction and the bushwacking of America; Best Australian political cartoons and Quarterly Essay, ‘Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance’.
Jim Davidson’s verdict on Don Watson’s Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language.
Jo Dirks looks at a new film on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Reforming Medicare is a favoured New Year’s resolution
Juliette Hughes interviews Dawn Cardona, principal of Darwin’s Nungalinya Theological College.
The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.
Latham negotiates political ladders, lovely views at the gallery and passports to freedom.
MedicarePlus | Global village
Summertime, and the livin’s less easy—at least in southern Australia.
The annual release of the once secret cabinet papers on New Year’s Day is now a political ritual. After 30 years, the public is able to look at cabinet’s deliberations on weighty matters, which have been kept under lock and key for a generation.
Minh Nguyen considers the challenges for the US under the influence of the neo-conservatives.
Technology has changed human relationships, argues Rufus Black.
Poem by Caroline Williamson
Of all the comments made after Mark Latham’s surprise ascension to the Labor leadership, Paul Keating’s remark—that it represented a defeat for the bankrupt ALP factional system and its operatives—was the most sound.
Joshua Puls meets the BBC’s John Simpson, broadcaster and war correspondent.
In Cambodia, included in the celebration of the new year is a washing ceremony.
Farmers and water
A week in which Mark Latham becomes the Leader of the Opposition and begins talking about ‘rungs of opportunity’.
Poem by Kirsty Sangster.
It is a truism that most people today are intensely interested in spirituality, less interested in religion, and little interested in churches.