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Culture of Forgetting. "Seven Versions of an Australian Badland" by Ross Gibson, "Looking for Blackfella's Point: An Australian History of Place" by Mark McKenna and "Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island" by Rebe Taylor. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-02)
The idea of place as a metaphor of Australia's colonial past and post-colonial present is a recent development in Australian history. The three books reviewed here come from a new generation of cultural historians who want ...
Soul Talk. "Directions: A Vision for Australia" by William Deane and "Sir William Deane: The Things That Matter" by Tony Stephens. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-02)
If we do not yet have our own Lincoln, Sir William Deane's writing sometimes shimmers with that extraordinary combination of elegant diction and profundity that marks great rhetoric. It is doubtful that any national leader ...
Dressed for Deco. "Art Deco: 1910-1939" by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is currently hosting a 'sumptuous' survey of the Art Deco period. Quoting curator Ghislaine Wood that the central themes are 'fashion, glamour, commerce', "Time" magazine’s review presses ...
Honour Games. "Man of Honour: John Macarthur – Duellist, Rebel, Founding Father" by Michael Duffy.[review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)
As I read this book, serious questions were being asked about the honour of three governments: the British, the US and our own. Did they all lie so as to justify war against Iraq? Honour still matters, even at a time when ...
An Ethical Newsman. "The Man Who Saw Too Much: David Brill, Combat Cameraman" by John Little. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)
This book is about 59-year-old, Tasmanian-born David Brill, who has covered events from most of the world’s hot spots: Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Africa, South and Central America, the Middle East and eastern Europe. (The ...
Oh Dennis! "Lillee: An Autobiography" by Dennis Lillee. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)
Oh Dennis! For four decades, we've had to forgive your indiscretions and blemishes. We’ve done so willingly, because you were not only the fast bowler of a generation, but of that generation’s milestones. For many Australians, ...
The Scurrying World. "The Secret Cure" by Sue Woolfe. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-10)
In some ways, Sue Woolfe’s new novel, "The Secret Cure", deals with similar themes to her last novel, the award-winning "Leaning Towards Infinity" (1996). The central character of the novel is a young laboratory technician, ...
The Missing Captain. "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Robert Holden. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)
The perils of a certain kind of historical writing are painfully demonstrated in "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", billed as 'the life of Australian whaling captain, William Chamberlain: a tale of abduction, adventure and ...