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David Marr's penance by storytelling
- Peter Craven
- 20 October 2023
3 Comments
In Killing for Country, David Marr confronts Australia's dark colonial past, revealing unsettling truths about the Australian Native Police's brutal acts. Published during the Voice referendum, Marr intertwines personal ancestry with national guilt, urging Australians towards truth-telling and reconciliation. This isn't just history; it's a call for atonement.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The disquieting lessons of Ian McEwan
- Peter Craven
- 14 June 2023
Ian McEwan's Lessons marked a sharp twist in a five-decade literary career, and presents an opportunity to reflect on his expansive body of work. The one-time literary rogue and Booker laureate now stands as the unquestioned doyen of modern English fiction, his audacious work perpetually navigating undercurrents of unease.
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AUSTRALIA

The Uluru Statement, the Constitution and the Election
- Frank Brennan
- 06 May 2022
5 Comments
Whoever is Prime Minister after the election on May 21, he will need to address the question of Indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution. This is the sixth election in a row when the question has been a live, unresolved issue during the election campaign. The patience of Indigenous leaders is understandably wearing thin. Trust is waning. There is still no clear path ahead. So where to from here?
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The sometimes ironic perception of 'things'
- Brian Matthews
- 02 August 2019
4 Comments
Robert Harris' The Gang of One ranges through Harris' five published books and a number of uncollected poems. Early work grows from his occasionally lonely, knockabout life and reveals not only a talent for catching the essence of fleeting memories and perceptions but also a mordant touch that gives edge to memory.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Auden dines with Barry Humphries
- Peter Gebhardt
- 05 March 2013
1 Comment
What I fear is that on Judgment Day one's punishment will be to hear God reciting by heart the poems I would have written had my life been good.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Chivalrous knight
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 July 2012
1 Comment
I have always associated Peter with words like chivalrous, knightly, courtly and courteous. He was courteous and elegant in conversation, listening intently to even the most inarticulate of people. But knights’ business is to fight.
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AUSTRALIA

Isabel's lessons in humanity
- Michael Mullins
- 09 November 2009
2 Comments
Isabel Guterres came to Australia as a refugee from East Timor in the early '80s. Recently the Australian Catholic University awarder her its highest honour in recognition of her lifetime commitment to justice and service. Her story is a lesson in the value of treating refugees with humanity.
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AUSTRALIA

Mark Latham's War on Everything
- Scott Stephens
- 14 November 2007
2 Comments
Perhaps the clearest indication of the underwhelming torpor that has become the defining feature of the federal election campaign, is the fact that its highlights have been provided by luminaries of Labor past — Paul Keating and Mark Latham.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Juliette Hughes, Andrew Hamilton
- 08 July 2006
Reviews of Quarterly Essay, Groundswell: the Rise of the Greens; The Tournament; The Writer and the World and Wild Politics.
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AUSTRALIA

The frontier fallen
- Tom Grifﬁths
- 05 July 2006
Historians are ﬁghting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Grifﬁths argues for a different approach.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

New beaut theatre
- Peter Craven
- 01 July 2006
Peter Craven on recent star-studded Australian works.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Hamlet in hard times
- Peter Craven
- 26 June 2006
Peter Craven on John Bell’s Hamlet.
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Keywords: Peter Craven