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October 2004
Issue No. 265   A$7.95 (incl.GST)

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ADVANCES

 

 

LETTERS

Ben Strout, Kathleen Mapperson, Lyn Tranter, Mark Rubbo, Brenda Naill, Peter Williams, Janet Mack
 
SOCIETY

Macgregor Duncan et al.: Imagining Australia
Wayne Hudson and A.J. Brown: Restructuring Australia
Peter Saunders: Australia's Welfare Habit and How to Kick It



Rob Watts
 
POLITICS

Tony Kevin: A Certain Maritime Incident

Damien Kingsbury
Bob Ellis: Night Thoughts in Time of War Josh Wilson
 
POEMS Brendan Ryan
Joel Deane
 
 
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Tom Frame: Living by the Sword?
Alex J. Bellamy, Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin: Understanding Peacekeeping
Peter Londey: Other People's Wars
James Upcher


Wayne Reynolds
 

JOURNALISM

Trevor Bormann (compiler): TravellersTales
Jonathan Harley: Lost in Transmission
Denise Leith: Bearing Witness


Morag Fraser
 
ANTHOLOGY Matthew Ricketson (ed.): The Best Australian Profiles
Sonja Dechian, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis: Dark Dreams
Richard Walsh
Sonya Hartnett
 
CULTURAL STUDIES Michael McGirr: Bypass
John Carroll: The Wreck of Western Culture
Graham Seal: Inventing Anzac
Richard Johnstone
Dirk den Hartog
Richard Fotheringham
 
ABORIGINAL STUDIES Mark McKenna: This Country
Maggie Brady: Indigenous Australia and Alcohol Policy David McKnight: From Hunting to Drinking
Marcia Langton et al. (eds): Honour among Nations?
Larissa Behrendt

Travis Cutler
Mark McKenna
 
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY A Haunted Land No Longer?
Changing Relations to a Spiritualised Australia

Peter Read
 
PEN
 
HISTORY Humphrey McQueen: A New Britannia
Humphrey McQueen: Social Sketches of Australia
Paul Fox: Clearings
Peter Cryle and Lisa O’Connell (eds): Libertine Enlightenment
Hera Cook: The Long Sexual Revolution

Frank Bongiorno
Paul de Serville
Peter McPhee

Lisa Featherstone
 
MILITARY HISTORY

Phillip Bradley: On Shaggy Ridge
Peter FitzSimons: Kokoda


John Coates
 
BIOGRAPHY Anne Blair: Ruxton
Margaret Somerville: Wildflowering
Peter Ryan
Sylvia Martin
 
LETTERS Patricia Clarke and Meredith McKinney (eds): The Equal Heart and Mind
Judith Wright: Birds: Poems by Judith Wright
Shirley Walker
 
DIARIES Thérèse Radic (ed.): Race against Time John Thompson
 
FICTION Tim Winton: The Turning
Gerard Windsor: I Have Kissed Your Lips
Michael Read: The Chronicle of Isaac Quirk
John Birmingham: Weapons of Choice
Nick Earls: The Thompson Gunner
Christine Balint: Ophelia’s Fan
Michael Jacobson: Always East
James Ley
Bronwyn Rivers
Geraldine Brooks
Simon Caterson
Thuy On

Carolyn Tétaz
 
POETRY Andrew Taylor: Collected Poems
M.T.C. Cronin: <More or Less Than> 1–100
David Gilbey
Jennifer Strauss
 
GALLERY NOTES   Jaynie Anderson
 
ART Kevin Fahy et al.: Australian Art Pottery: 1900–1950 Christopher Menz
 
JOURNALS Ivor Indyk (ed.): HEAT
Brij Lal and Duncan Beard (eds): Winter Conversations David Owen (ed.): Island
Nathan Hollier and Kath Wilson (eds): Overland
Maria Takolander
 
SPORT Rob Hess and Bob Stewart: More Than a Game Christopher Bantick
     
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS Rosanne Hawke, illus. Elizabeth Stanley: Yardil
Norman Jorgensen, illus. Brian Harrison-Lever: The Call of the Osprey
David Miller: Refugees
Jan Ormerod: Lizzie Nonsense
Elaine Russell: The Shack That Dad Built
Sherryl Clark
 
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Morris Gleitzman: Girl Underground
David Metzenthen: Tiff and the Trout
Ruth Starke: Orphans of the Queen
Margaret MacNabb
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