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Books October 15, 2016
Pitched Battle
[TOC:ul In this story] It’s nearly a half-century since the South African Springbok sporting tours of Australia were bailed up by a series of protests. The campaign, and that in Britain, foreshadowed the Gleneagles agreement, which locked the sports-mad …
Books November 14, 2015
The Dismissal Dossier
[TOC:ul In this story] There was more than a little melancholy attending this week’s 40th anniversary of the Dismissal. With the departure of Gough, and then Mal, as I suppose we must call him, all the principals have now departed. When the half-century …
Books November 28, 2015
Before Rupert
[TOC:ul In this story] “Men must have legends, else they die of strangeness,” said Les Murray, worried we lacked myths. Kidding, right? We have nothing but, from Ned Kelly to Ern Malley, to the Dismissal, and back to “the Dreaming”, which is …
Books September 26, 2015
Submission
[TOC:ul In this story] For some, a new Houellebecq is the only event that approaches the childhood memory of a new Famous Five. You know exactly what you’re going to get, with variations of order and tone: then, suspicious foreigners on the …
