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April 2004
Issue No. 260   A$7.95 (incl.GST)

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LETTERS

Judith Pugh, Natasha Stott Despoja, Laurie Hergenhan, Paul Ritter, Hideki Kizaki, John Collins
 
ADVANCES    
 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Robert Adamson: Inside Out

Owen Richardson
 
BIOGRAPHY James Griffin: John Wren Chris McConville
     
POLITICS Owen Harries: Benign or Imperial? Allan Gyngell
  Robert Manne (with David Corlett): Sending Them Home Nathan Hollier
 

BUSINESS

Gideon Haigh: Bad Company

 

 

Grant Fleming, David Merrett and Simon Ville: The Big End of Town

Richard Walsh
 
INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Donald Thomson.: Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land

John Mulvaney
 

Hilda Muir Jarman: Very Big Journey

Ceridwen Spark
 
MILITARY HISTORY

Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce (eds): On the Warpath

Peter Ryan
Peter Brune: A Bastard of a Place Rod Beecham
 

POEMS

Clive James  
Michael Brennan  
Bruce Beaver  
 

 

 
TRUE CRIME Peter Rees: Killing Juanita Philip Clark
     
PEN Asiye Guzel Zeybek
   
TRAVEL Roslyn Jolly (ed.): The Cruise of the Janet Nichol  
Roger Robinson (ed.): Robert Louis Stevenson  
Paul Sharrad: Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature Kate Darian-Smith
   
MEDIA Flip-flops Bridget Griffen-Foley
   

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

They Make a Desolation and They Call It F.A. Hayek

Simon Marginson
     
EDUCATION David Teather (ed.): Consortia John Nieuwenhuysen

 

John Cain and John Hewitt: Off Course

Morag Fraser
   
LAW H.P. Lee and George Winterton (eds): Australian Constitutional Landmarks Michael Kirby
   

PHILOSOPHY

W. Martin Davies: The Philosophy of Sir William Mitchell  

 

James Franklin: Corrupting the Youth Tamas Pataki

 

Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love and Society Simon Caterson
     
CULTURAL STUDIES Jaynie Anderson: Tiepolo's Cleopatra Peter Porter

 

Angus Trumble: A Brief History of the Smile Peter Steele
   

FILM

Mark Nicholls: Scorsese's Men Rachel Buchanan

   
FICTION

Amanda Lohrey: The Philosopher's Doll

Tony Smith

  Sophie Cunningham: Geography Kerryn Goldsworthy
  John Harwood: The Ghost Writer James Ley
  Catherine Jinks: Spinning Around Carolyn Tetaz
  Sandy McCutcheon: The Haha Man Nicola Walker
  Janet Kelly: The Colour of Walls Christopher Bantick
  Colin Falconer: Anastasia Judith Armstrong
  John Biggs: The Girl in the Golden House Christen Cornell
     
POETRY Kathyrn Lomer: Extraction of Arrows Martin Duwell
  Philip Hammial : In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter's Children  
  Martin R. Johnson: Home Town Burial  
  Maurice Strandgard: Loneliness Oliver Dennis
     
TRIBUTE Bruce Beaver: A Poet's Poet Tom Shapcott
     
NATIONAL NEWS Robin Lovejoy
     
HISTORY Natalie Tomas: The Medici Women Ros Pesman
     
FIRST WORD Dennis Altman: Defying Gravity Graham Little
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