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September 2000 Issue No. 224



C O N T E N T S



Features



LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY
Ihab Hassan: 'How Australian Is It?'

ROLLING COLUMNs
(sponsored by Mietta's Queenscliff Hotel)

Don Anderson: 'You're Not All Right, Jack'
Pam Brown: Jacket

Editorial

Reviews



jewish studies



Aline P'nina Tayar: How shall we sing? Felicity Bloch
Jon Stratton: Coming Out Jewish Joe Rich

art



Anita Callaway: Visual Ephemera Robert Holden

history



K.S. Inglis:Observing Australia Michael Roe
Anne-Maree Whitaker: Joseph Fauveaux Alan Frost

politics



Michael Leach, Geoffrey Stokes and Ian Ward (eds):
The Rise and Fall of One Nation Ross Fitzgerald

economics



Hugh Stretton: Economics Alan Patience

aboriginal studies



Peter Read: Belonging Tony Hughes-d'Aeth

autobiography



John Moriarty: Saltwater Fella Ian McFarlane

theatre



Connie Healy: Defiance Thérèse Radic

sociology



Mike Hayes: The Track Andrew Block
Barry Dickins: Heart and Soul Miriam Manne

Competition Winners
non-fiction



Inga Clendinnen: Tiger's Eye Aviva Tuffield
Gideon Haigh: Mystery SpinnerNick Gadd
Bob Ellis: So It Goes Ben Zipper

fiction



Arabella Edge: The Company Robert Drewe
Alan Gould: The Schoonermaster's Dance Andrew Riemer
Adib Khan: The Storyteller David Matthews
Mudrooroo: The Promised Land Adam Shoemaker
Nigel Gray: Strangers & Skeletons in the CupboardKevin Brophy

Competition Winners
fiction



Murray Bail: Eucalyptus Emilie Collyer
David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick (eds): CentaurusNorman Talbot
Michael Meehan: The Salt of Broken Tears Angela Morsley

poetry



Margaret Scott: Collected PoemsJennifer Strauss
Carolyn Gerrish: Hijacked to the Underworld &
Sandy Jeffs: Blood Relations Jennifer Maiden
Alf Taylor, Michael J. Smith and Romaine Moreton: Rimfire &
Jude Aquilina and Ray Stuart (eds): Friendly Street 24 Michael Costigan

children's books



Ursula Dubosarsky (illus. John Winch): The Game of the Goose Pam Macintyre
Stephen Herricks: The Simple Gift Tess Brady
Paul Collins (ed): Tales from the Wasteland Rosaleen Love

Competition Winners
children's books



Nadia Wheatley (illus. Matt Ottley): Luke's Way of Looking Susan Palmer
David Metzenthen: Stony Heart CountryPam Harvey
Jill McDougall (illus. Jenny Taylor): Anna the Goanna Jenny Merrilees

shorts



Nigel Featherstone: Joy & Yvonne Marsh: Still Life Nita Kambouris
Jim Schrembri: Murder in Aisle 9 & Otherland 6 Ben Zipper
Jill Gloyne: The Nautilus Shell & Ron Bunney: The Hidden Melissa Hart

bulletin board





Cover this month...
Fred Kroh and Chong photographers
from the cover of Garry Satherley: The Arch-Traitor's Lament
(to be reviewed in the next issue by Don Anderson)
Reproduced here courtesy of Text Publishing


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