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February 2004
Issue No. 258   A$7.95 (incl.GST)

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LETTERS

Clare Wright, Riaz Hassan, Rafe Champion
 
BIOGRAPHY

Ronald M. Younger: Keith Murdoch

Bruce Page
  Alan Bond (with Rob Mundle): Bond Craig Sherborne
  Kevin Keeffe: Paddy's Road Ceridwen Spark
     
POEM  Stephen Edgar  

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

Rupert Murdoch and the Culture War

David McKnight

 

 

 
POLITICS

Frank Brennan: Tampering with Asylum
Julian Burnside: From Nothing to Zero
Tom Mann: Desert Sorrow
Spencer Zifcak: Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva

Sylvia Lawson
 

Mary Buckley and Rick Fawn (eds): Global Responses to Terrorism
Jenny Hocking: Terror Laws

Richard Broinowski
 

Geoffrey Barker: Sexing It Up
Raimond Gaita (ed.): Why the War Was Wrong

Nathan Hollier
F.E. Peters: Islam
Amin Saikal: Islam and the West

Riaz Hassan

 

Richard Broinowski: Fact or Fission? Wayne Reynolds
   
PHILOSOPHY Susan Neiman: Evil in Modern Thought Tamas Pataki
 

 

 
ANTHOLOGIES Mark Tredinnick (ed.): A Place on Earth Kim Mahood
  Peter Craven (ed.): The Best Australian Essays 2003 Chris Wallace-Crabbe
 
GALLERY NOTES Michael Desmond  
   
FILM Brian McFarlane (ed.): The Encyclopedia of British Film Noel King

 

   
FICTION Shirley Hazzard: The Great Fire Brenda Niall
Andrew Lindsay: The Slapping Man Thuy On

 

Carmel Bird: Cape Grimm

James Ley
  Jackie French: A War for Gentlemen Heather Neilson
Andrew Humphreys: Wonderful Brian McFarlane
Chandani Lokuge: Turtle Nest Bronwyn Rivers
Igor Gelbach: Notes from the Esplanade Judith Armstrong

 

NATIONAL NEWS Paul Cliff  
   
CULTURAL STUDIES Graeme Davison: Car Wars Gideon Haigh

Melissa Butcher and Mandy Thomas (eds): Ingenious
Ian Maxwell: Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes

David Nichols
Jan Ryan: Chinese Women and the Global Village Helen Chung Martin
Peter Read: Haunted Earth Robyn Tucker
  Martin Thomas: The Artificial Horizon Rachel Buchanan

   
POETRY Michael Brennan: The Imageless World David McCooey
Lawrence Bourke: A Cold Touch
Cath Kenneally: All Day, All Night
Ann Nadge: Corrugations


Richard King
  Brian Edwards: All in Time
John Jenkins: Dark River

Mike Ladd
     
HISTORY Henry Reynolds: The Law of the Land Maria Nugent

 

J.V. D'Cruz and William Steele: Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia Hsu-Ming Teo
   
JOURNALS Griffith Review: Dreams of Land
Heat 6: Happy Days
Meanjin Leaves Town: On Travel


Nicola Walker

 

CONFERENCE-VILLE Libby Robin  
     
INDEX Index for 2003: Nos 248-257  
     
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