keywords: Henry Handel Richardson
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 01 May 2020
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In Friends and Rivals Brenda Niall brings together four significant Australian women writers. Between them they published works from the 1890s to the 1950s. Ethel Turner and Barbara Baynton were from NSW. Nettie Palmer and Henry Handel Richardson were from Victoria, both schooled at Presbyterian Ladies College.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 24 May 2013
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One of the great monuments to the 'Dunstan Decade', the Adelaide Festival Centre marks its 40th birthday next weekend. It was the first capital city complex devoted to the performing arts, before even the Sydney Opera House. For me the anniversary triggers a flood of memories, including a theatrical encounter with Dunstan himself.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kevin Rudd has raised circumlocution to an
art since coming to office. But recently his polysyllabic heart rate seems to have slowed.
What's changed? Could it be the patter of Tony feet? Time to restart that
'working families' mantra: plain prose beats purple.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Coorey
- 06 June 2006
Andrew Coorey proclaims The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning.
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