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Following Friday's announcement of Nathan Rees as the premier of NSW, media reports highlighted his background as a garbage collector. They neglected to mention he was doing this to fund his honours degree in English Literature at Sydney University.
the noose .. in a loop around his neck .. in a loop on CNN .. over and over again
The Unsual Life of Tristan Smith is an engaging if uncomfortable tale. But a closer reading reveals author Peter Carey as social critic. While themes of colonialism, migration, and identity are explicit, disability enters more subtly.
In a country which periodically agonises its way through debates about its history and frets regularly about the quality of history teaching, it is remarkable how resistant we are to embedding notes and pointers on our past in the urban and rural landscapes.
An Australian aid worker escapes the Sharia prohibition of pork and wine when he moves from Darfur to Northern Uganda. But his arrival coincides with the outbreak of swine fever and the drying up of the bacon supply.
Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.
Peter Craven on John Bell’s Hamlet.
Juliette Hughes looks at the impact of The Passion of the Christ.
Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.
Between 1 January and 1 October this year I slept in at least 19 different beds.
Michele Gierck meets Ulli and Georgina Beier.
Jane Carolan enjoys an encounter with Barry Hill in The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe.
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