01 November 2003
Peter Steele unlocks the hidden treasures of fine food.
Poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Poems by Aidan Coleman
Anthony Ham examines the life and legacy of Edward Said.
Jenny Zimmer looks at Patrick McCaughey’s The Bright Shapes and the True Names.
Anna Griffiths reviews William Dalrymple’s White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century India.
Eliza Bergin navigates Nicholas Hasluck’s The Legal Labyrinth
Reviews of Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture and Nation; The Uniting Church in Australia: The first 25 years; Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered and A girl, a smock and a simple plan
Reviews of the films Japanese Story; Gettin’ Square; 28 Days Later and Matchstick Men.
Watching Attenborough in his second series of The Life of Mammals I couldn’t help noting that tinge of sadness in him; he knows the fragility of what he shows us.
Boycotting global brands, Jon Greenaway puts Muslim colas to the (taste) test.
Peter Pierce’s postcard from Turkey.
Gianni Zappalà examines the relationship between public policy and corporate citizenship.
George Morgan on the cruelty of punitive attitudes to children.
Paul Martin finds Victoria’s Water Act is full of holes.
The imposition on students of greater burdens for repayment when they leave university is likely to cause a drought in the number of graduates who will be prepared to work for community agencies and the public service.
Western intelligence agencies fell down badly over Iraq. So did our consciences, argues Bruce Duncan.
When I was a schoolboy, I read all I could find by G.K. Chesterton.
Poor old Einstein. He’s bound to be found wanting in the end, like Newton and Galileo before him.
The unfolding affair of the floating sheep would move most people, even someone named Truss, to poetry, because it is full of echoes, paradoxes and drama.
Mark Carkeet celebrates the life and work of Evelyn Waugh.
Anthony Ham visits Tunisia, Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters
Kel Dummett finds that Australia is content to ignore the troubles of Biak, West Papua.
A note from the Editors of Eureka Street.
Once a model nation state—Hugh Laracy considers Tonga’s future.
Sol Encel on the life of Professor William Macmahon Ball.
When we associate a year with a nation, the people of that nation have usually had little to celebrate. This has been the year of Iraq.
If I were Tony Abbott, I would be carefully listening to doctors’ whinges about medical insurance.
News from around the traps.
Muslims and Christians: unanswered questions, HIV/AIDS and voting for the pope
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