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April 2005
Issue No. 270   A$8.95 (incl.GST)

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ADVANCES

 

LETTERS

Barry Jones, Colin Rubenstein, Val Wake, David Christie, Andrew Lemon, Andrew Ley
 
POLITICS

Marion Maddox: God under Howard

James Upcher

John Edwards: Curtin's Gift

John Wanna

Raimond Gaita: Breach of Trust

John Uhr

Richard Robison and Vedi R. Hadiz:
Reorganising Power in Indonesia

Damien Kingsbury
 
POEMS

Stephen Edgar
Judith Bishop
Lisa Gorton

 
 
HISTORY Tony Roberts: Frontier Justice
Nicholas Jose
 

ESSAY

The 'History Wars' and Aboriginal Health Barry Smith
 
MILITARY HISTORY

Margaret Geddes: Blood, Sweat and Tears
Robyn Arvier (ed.): Don't Worry about Me
Cameron Forbes: Hellfire
Tom Frame: The Cruel Legacy

Brian Matthews

Rod Beecham
John Connor
 
LETTER FROM
SRI LANKA

A Broken Wall

Nick Drayson

 
JOURNALS Carole Ferrier (ed.): Hecate Vol.30, No.2
David Owen (ed.): Island 99
Julianne Schultz (ed.): Griffith Review 7


Kerryn Goldsworthy
LANGUAGE

R. and L. Brasch: The Book of Beginnings

Bruce Moore

 

ECONOMICS

Sebastian Mallaby: The World's Banker

David Lansam

 
LITERARY CRITICISM

Derek Attridge :
J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading


Sue Thomas
 
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY The Tyranny of the Literal James Ley
 
BIOGRAPHY

Maryanne Confoy: Morris West
Hal G.P. Colebatch: Steadfast Knight

Peter Pierce
Paul de Serville
 
ANTHOLOGY

Rob Gerrand (ed.):
The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing


Chris Palmer
 
FICTION Geraldine Brooks: March
Marg Vandeleur: The Catch
Wendy Harmer: Farewell My Ovaries

Brenda Niall
Nikki Davies
Anna Goldsworthy

 
POETRY

Bruce Beaver: The Long Game and Other Poems
Lidija Cvetkovic: War Is Not the Season for Figs
Patricia Sykes: Modewarre

John Tranter

Michelle Borzi
 
CULTURAL STUDIES Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths and Libby Robins (eds):
A Change in the Weather
Gail Hawkes: Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture
Alice Garner: A Shifting Shore
Philip Fitzpatrick: Bamahuta

Ian Noble
Stephen Garton
Gay Bilson
Allan Patience
 
GEOLOGY David Johnson: The Geology of Australia
Richard Arculus
 
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Catherine Jinks: Evil Genius
Michael Gerard Bauer: The Running Man
Steven Herrick: by the river
Joanne Horniman: Secret Scribbled Notebooks
Scott Westerfeld: So Yesterday
Jake Wilson



Mike Shuttleworth
 
CHILDREN'S ANTHOLOGIES Poems by Young Australians Vol.2
Margaret Hamilton (ed.): H20
Robin Marrow (ed.):
And the Roo Jumped over the Moon



Sherryl Clark
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW APRIL 2005

 

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