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March 2002
Issue No. 239   A$7.50 (incl.GST)

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EDITORIAL
 

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

'Land of the Long Black Cloud'

Jim Davidson
 

ADVANCES

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS Peter Craven, Tamas Pataki, Kevin Brophy, John Carmody
 
ASIAN STUDIES

R.E. Elson: Suharto

John Monfries

Alan Dupont: East Asia Imperilled
David Goldsworthy (ed.): Facing North
Nicholas Tarling: Southeast Asia

David Reeve
  Deryck Scarr: A History of the Pacific Islands Donald Denoon
 

LETTER FROM TOKYO

Adam Broinowski

 

 

 
BIOGRAPHY

Keith McMenomy: Ned Kelly

John McQuilton: Kelly Country  

John Molony: Ned Kelly

Alex McDermott

Mike Richards: The Hanged Man

Christopher Bantick
 
POEMS

Dorothy Porter

Judith Bishop  
 
LAW

Hilary Charlesworth: Writing in Rights

Eamon Evans

 

Roger S. Magnusson: Angels of Death Robert Young
 
ABORIGINAL STUDIES

Fabienne Bayet-Charlton: Finding Ullagundahi Island

 
 

Doris Pilkington: Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence

  Edie Wright: Full Circle Bruce Sims

HISTORY

Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (eds): Chain Letters

Patrick O'Farrell

Jan Gothard: Blue China

Angela Woollacott:
To Try Her Fortune in London

Ros Pesman
James Mitchell: A Deepening Roar Martin Crotty

Judith E. Berman: Holocaust Remembrance
in Australian Jewish Communities

  Ruth Wajnryb: The Silence Mark Peel
 

MILITARY HISTORY

Richard Holmes (ed.): The Oxford Companion to Military History

John Coates

Michael McKernan: This War Never Ends

 

  Hank Nelson: Prisoners of War

 

  Sherrif and John Probert: Prisoner of Two Wars

Martin Ball

 

ESSAY

'Matthew Flinders as Writer' Gillian Dooley

 

FICTION

Eva Sallis: The City of Sealions

Thuy On

 

John Higgins: Salamanca

 

Sarah Myles: Transplanted Jane Messer

 

Henry Handel Richardson: The Getting of Wisdom Brenda Niall
 

SCIENCE FICTION

Sean McMullen: Eyes of the Calculor

 

Matthew Richardson (ed.): The Halstead Treasury
of Ancient Science Fiction
Bruce Gillespie

 

 

FANTASY

Ian Irvine: Geomancer

 

Sophie Masson: Forest of Dreams Adina Hamilton
 

POETRY

John Mateer: Loanwords

 
 

Tracy Ryan: Hothouse

 

Barbara Temperton: Going Feral

Richard King
  Diane Fahey: The Sixth Swan
  Robyn Rowland: Fiery Waters Geoff Page
 
NATURAL HISTORY Libby Robin: The Flight of the Emu Peter Menkhorst
 
CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Penny Hall, illus. Craig Smith: Alan the Alien

Torsten Hartmann: Britta's Magical Journey into the Outback

Torsten Hartmann: Britta's Magical Reef Adventure

 
Elizabeth Honey: The Moon in the Man

Karen Margaret: Jenny Spaghetti

Sally Odgers, illus. Judith Rossell: Sleepless in Space
Yvonne Winer, illus. Tony Oliver: Birds Build Nests Stella Lees
Garry Disher: Moondyne Kate
Archimede Fusillo: The Dons
Jim Schembri: The Eight Lives of Stulle the Great
Steve Tolbert: Tracking the Dalai Lama
Markus Zusak: When Dogs Cry Matt Sullivan
 
TWENTY YEARS ON
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW MARCH 2002