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Cannabis – A Discussion Paper by By Government of South Australia
Ron Graham Presents Other Worlds edited by Paul Collins & Rooms of Paradise by Lee Harding
by Jim McKenzie •
In Tirra Lirra by the River, an elderly woman, Norah Porteou, returns to live in her childhood home in Brisbane after forty years as a ‘London Australian’. The house is empty, so is her life. Norah is a ‘woman whose name is of no consequence’. She is sensitive, vaguely artistic, slightly superior (‘Mother,’ she appeals in a childhood scene, ‘don’t let Grace call me Lady Muck.’) The novel consists of a review of her past, with interruptions from half-remembered neighbours offering curious and resentful help.
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by Alan Roberts •