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February/March 2001           Issue No. 228    $AU6.55 (incl.GST)


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Features

la trobe university essay
          John Hirst: ABORIGINES AND MIGRANTS: Diversity and Unity in Multicultural Australia

editorial

advances

contributors

letters
          Nicholas Jose, Neil James, Laurie Hergenhan, Ian Syson

Reviews

history
          Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the World          George Seddon
          John Hirst: A Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Nation         Geoffrey Bolton

essays
          Brian Matthews: As the Story Goes           Kerryn Goldsworthy
          Lily Brett: New York          Michael McGirr

aboriginal studies
          Sylvia Kleinert & Margo Neale (eds): The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture          Andrew Sayers

environmental history
          Tim Bonhady: The Colonial Earth           Peter Timms

poems
          Gig Ryan
          Rosemary Dobson

fiction
          Marion Halligan: The FogGarden           Brenda Niall
          Arnold Zable: Cafe Scheherazade           Judith Armstrong
          Murray Bail: Camouflage          Peter Craven

tribute
          Mietta O'Donnell

cultural studies
          Simon Marginson & Mark Considine: The Enterprise University: Power, Governance
          and Reinvention in Australia
         Morag Fraser

art history
          Valerie Hill: The Cazneaux Women          Isobel Crombie

biography
          Michael Ackland: Damaged Men: The Precarious Lives of
         James McCauley and Harold Stewart
          Laurie Hergenhan
          Pauline Armstrong: Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory           James Griffin
          Paul de Seville: Rolf Boldrewood: A Life          Peter Ryan
          Damian Johnstone: The Wild One: The Life and Times of Johnny O'Keefe          Craig Sherborne

poetry
         Rosemary Dobson: Untold Lives & Later Poems          Peter Steele
         Philip Salom: A Cretive Life          Andrew Zawacki

twenty years on

reference
          June Factor: Kidspeak: A Dictionary of Australian Children's Words, Expressions and Games          Bruce Moore

children's books
         Anne Fienberg: The Witch in the Lake;
          John Marsden:: Winter;
         Kirsty Murray: Market Blues          Robyn Sheahan-Bright
         Gary Crew and Mark Wilson: Valley of Bones;
         Anna Ingram and Junk Morimoto: Run Damon Run!;
         Victor Kelleher and Gregory Rogers: Beyond the Dusk;
         Kim Scott and Peter Kendall: The Dredgersaurus;
         Margaret Wild and Donna Rawlins: Robber Girl          Margaret Dunkle

Index
         Index of 2000 Issues: Nos 218-227

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Russell Page, a member of the Bangarra Dance Theatre, photographed in Raw Moves, by James Houston (Craftsman House, 2000)



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