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01 October 2004
Amid the tragedies of September, we focus on books.
While Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) holders are now eligible to apply for non-humanitarian visas, the Federal Government is introducing yet another hoop in this humiliating process.
Poem by Evan Jones.
Most of the election so far has proven to be a referendum on whether we could endure having John Howard back.
The view from Spain
Youth of the future
In the Scriptures the Pharisees get a bad press. They are accused of being legalist, obsessive about detail, hypocritical and self-serving.
No fewer than eight Fellows of the Royal Society of London were taught and inspired at secondary school by one science teacher, Len Basser of Sydney Boys High School. This fact emerged from the 2004 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.
David is making mud bricks. A small, young wallaby watches him from less than five metres away.
The Hispanic population may play a critical role in the forthcoming US elections
Peter Hamilton prepares to cast his first vote in a US election
Dorothy Horsfield investigates an initiative to help the survivors of torture
Anthony Ham investigates renewed efforts at the IWC to resume commercial whaling
Architect Peter Quinn is to bring to completion St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth
Gillian Bouras looks at the role of the body in death
The artists of the Kimberley capture more than images
Don Gazzard visits the new academic centre at St Mary’s and Newman Colleges
Printed books still possess the power to captivate, thrill and inspire. Alison Aprhys confesses her addiction.
Paul Bourke reviews Joe Cinque’s consolation by Helen Garner
Troy Bramston looks at new ideas in Imagining Australia: Ideas for our future.
Kirsty Sangster reviews Christine Balint’s Ophelia’s fan: A story about dreams, Shakespeare and love.
John Button travels Twelve cities: A memoir with Roy Jenkins.
Gary Pearce follows Mourid Barghouti’s journey to Palestine in I Saw Ramallah.
Peter Pierce examines Roland Perry’s Monash: The outsider who won a war.
Kate Cherry reviews Creating frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre by Maryrose Casey.
Daniel Donahoo looks at Doug Henwood’s After the New Economy.
Jane Mayo Carolan goes Down to the sea: The true saga of an Australian fishing dynasty with John Little.
Ben Fraser enjoys the spectacle of Afghanistan’s equestrian past-time.
Marcelle Mogg on the MTC’s Take me out.
Martin Ball attends the premiere performance of Christopher Willcock’s Miserere
Reviews of the films Letters to Ali, Coffee and cigarettes and The Village.