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The last state authorised execution in Australia—that of Ronald Ryan—occurred 40 years ago last week. 12 year old Frank Brennan felt it was wrong. His adolescent moral sensibilities found resonance in public debate, law reform and policy change.
Many within the conservative Christian camp have come to accept music as an effective means of spreading the gospel. Artists, by virtue of their creative independence, can, if they choose, talk "truth" to the State. No group should force anyone to sing and clap to a single tune.
One of the great enemies of understanding is simple division.
Garry Kinnane reviews Sue Vanderkelen’s The Cruel Man and Michael Jorgensen’s More Hats.
Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.
Robert Phiddian reviews Ghassan Hage’s Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for hope in a shrinking society.
The United States will probably complete its war against Iraq with its military clout enhanced, its diplomatic clout reduced, and its place in the world less secure.
The Regency spinster’s novels have never been more popular
Labor’s leadership problems have been a dream for the Liberal Party, not least by obscuring the fact that the real victor in leadership games over recent months has been the prime minister, John Howard.
Poems by Dimitris Tsaloumas & Michael Farrell
Morag Fraser, former editor of this journal, expressed a residual unease with the very notion of ‘Australian values’, belonging as she saw it to a ‘vocabulary of expediency’ rather than of conviction. What are 'Australian' values, asks Richard Treloar.
Gary Pearce reviews Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush by Colm Tóibín.
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