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Get Porter. "Walking on Water: A Life in the Law" by Chester Porter. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-10)
All young persons contemplating ‘a life in the law’ as a career should read this book, ideally when they are about sixteen, to allow adequate time to switch to dentistry, say, or engineering. But whatever your age, Chester ...
Great Upstarts. "That Magnificant 9th: An Illustrated History of the 9th Australian Division 1940-1946" by Mark Johnston and "Alamein: The Australian Story" by Mark Johnston and Peter Stanley. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)
At 9.40pm on 23rd October 1942, in the North African desert, the heavens lit up with myriad flashes from more than one thousand guns, and the roar of the British Commonwealth Eighth Army's opening barrage rolled out towards ...
Convict Flash. "Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia" by Amanda Laugeson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)
Amanda Lagueson's "Convict Words" is a dictionary of the characteristic or salient words of early colonial discourse, the lexis of the convict system and transportation, which survived until 1840 in New South Wales, 1852 ...
Shadows. [poem]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)
Resolution Was All. "One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway" by Ian Denys Peek and "If This Should Be Farewell: A Family Separated by War" by Adrian Wood (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)
These two unusual books reflect on aspects of the prisoner-of-war experience in Singapore, Thailand and Burma during World War II that have not been much canvassed in Australia. "One Fourteenth of an Elephant", Ian Denys ...
No Stopping. "Beyond 40: Celebrating 40 Years of Dreams" by Jeff Busby (photographer) and "A Collector's Book of Australian Dance" by Michelle Potter. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)
Here are two sumptuously produced keepsakes serving very different purposes. "Beyond 40" describes itself as 'Forty Years of Dreams', but actually offers one year’s worth of images that the Australian Ballet wants to ...
Pearls of Exploitation. "Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-Century Western Australia" by Penelope Hetherington. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)
Penelope Hetherington has found that in nineteenth-century Western Australian colonial society childhood is not easily delineated. Her solution to this problem of definition is to look at how childhood was defined in ...
Courtroom Knuckledusters. "Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent" by Chris Lydgate and "The Mahathir Legacy: A Nation Divided, A Region At Risk" by Ian Stewart. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)
Singapore and Malaysia have a lot in common beyond a shared border and a shared colonial heritage. Both countries have been dominated for decades by one strong leader - Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, Dr Mahathir Mohamad in ...
Only as a Last Resort: Reflections on War and Justice. [essay]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)
Each time a Western nation goes to war, its citizens are locked in sometimes bitter argument, as we have recently been. When the war is over we no longer reflect on those arguments, as though we learnt nothing or forgot ...
Letter From Beirut.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)
It has been raining all week, persistent drizzle unlike the brief downpours that are more typical of Beirut. The city is slumbering. El-Zein am staying with his parents. His father goes out less often. His mother is snuggled ...