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September 1982, no. 44

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Child's Play by David Malouf & Fly Away Peter by David Malouf

An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton

Veronica Brady reviews 'Billy Two-Toes’ Rainbow' by Hugh Atkinson, 'The Same Old Story' by James Legasse, 'Force and Defiance' by Gedaliah Shaiak, and 'Pacific Highway' by Michael Wilding

Mr Santamaria and the Bishops: Studies in the Christian movement by Gerard Henderson

Rock Choppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia by Edmund Campion

Invasion and Resistance

Don Watson reviews 'Tubbo' by Paul de Serville, 'The Homestead' by Peter Freeman, and 'Homesteads of Southern New South Wales 1830–1900' by Maurice Canton

Test-Tube Babies edited by William Walters and Peter Singer

Lords of Death by Suzanne Welborn

Selected Poems by John Tranter & Flowers of Emptiness. by Rudi Krausemann

Invasion and Resistance: Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland Frontier 1861–1897 by Noel Loos

Robert Murray reviews 5 books