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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Of bullocks and bulldust

    • John Sendy
    • 26 June 2006
    1 Comment

    John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The king of children

    • Moira Rayner
    • 24 June 2006

    Moira Rayner on Janusz Korczak and the early history of children’s rights.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Myth-take no mistake

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 24 June 2006

    Juliette Hughes reviews Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men and Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Another Waugh brings up a century

    • Mark Carkeet
    • 13 June 2006

    Mark Carkeet celebrates the life and work of Evelyn Waugh.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Political thrillers expose corrupting personal ambition

    • Tony Smith
    • 12 June 2006

    It is interesting and somewhat disturbing to discover how readily popular novelists regard politics as an appropriate background for crime stories. Tony Smith previews two novels that get much mileage from the intrigue of the political sphere.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Belonging: One fan’s Tugga Waugh

    • Gabriel Smith
    • 06 June 2006

    Gabriel Smith salutes Steve Waugh.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The great novel

    • Andrew Coorey
    • 06 June 2006

    Andrew Coorey proclaims The Middle Parts  of Fortune by Frederic Manning.

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  • RELIGION

    Dan Brown’s favour to Christianity

    • Richard Leonard
    • 29 May 2006
    1 Comment

    A good read, a tedious film, a historical mess, and great publicity for the Catholic Church. Richard Leonard looks at The Da Vinci Code.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Felicity in love

    • Mary Manning
    • 22 May 2006

    Mary Manning interviews English novelist Salley Vickers.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Morag Fraser, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
    • 22 May 2006

    Reviews of the films Monster, The Cat in the Hat, The Barbarian Invasions, and Capturing the Friedmans.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Towards an Australian "voice"

    • Tony Smith
    • 18 May 2006
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    Terri Janke's Butterfly Song and Hsu-Ming Teo's Behind the Moon are two novels that examine the "Australian condition."

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The end of a friendship

    • Matthew Lamb
    • 14 May 2006

    Matthew Lamb on the great dispute: Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation and Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It.

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