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01 January 2003
William John Kennedy Snr. is the oldest male Aboriginal elder in the State of Victoria. He fought in the Second World War. He worked on the railways. He campaigned for land rights. And he just happens to be my grandfather. To most people he’s known as ‘Uncle Jack’, but to me, he’s ‘Pop’. This is his story.
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
Tolkien’s epic resists allegory, but Dorothy Lee found it open to mythological and spiritual exploration.
Poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Reviews of Quarterly Essay, Groundswell: the Rise of the Greens; The Tournament; The Writer and the World and Wild Politics.
Kevin Hart on the poetry and essays of Czeslaw Milosz.
Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.
Penelope Buckley reflects on Aileen Kelly’s City and Stranger.
Alex McDermott examines Brett Hutchins’ Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth.
Reviews of the films The Quiet American; Tadpole; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Lovely & Amazing and The Fellowship of the Ring (extended version DVD).
I was watching a Missy Elliott video on MTV the other day, wondering why her face always reminds me of someone.
Welcome to our Summer issue. As we prepared this holiday edition it was raining in Victoria.
The python is an emblem of Australian immigration policy that crushes asylum seekers in order to excrete them.
Philip Berrigan, accountability, comic opera, and senior graffiti
Carmen Lawrence sports too many scars and has too much history, not least the undying enmity of Brian Burke’s old mates, ever to contemplate a future leadership role in the Labor Party.
The history, the current circumstances
Andrew Hamilton unpicks the arguments.
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
One of the great enemies of understanding is simple division.
Like most organisms, human beings are most comfortable in their own neighbourhood.
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
‘Lookin’ forward to your cup of coffee, Ed?’ ‘No money, Harry.’ ‘Don’t need any, mate.