December 2002-January 2003, no. 247

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December 2002-January 2003, no. 247

Full Contents

Father Lands by Emily Ballou

Advances December 2002-January 2003

The Giraffe's Uncle by Les Robinson & My Love Must Wait by Ernestine Hill

Future Active: Media activism and the internet by Graham Meikle

Letters to the Editor

God

My Compliment Is Not A Tulip

Best Books of the Year 2002

The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing edited by Graeme Aitken

Four reissued Australian novels

Aviva Tuffield reviews 'The Truth about My Fathers' by Gaby Naher, 'I’m Hungry, Daddy' by Cliff Nichols, and 'The Bean Patch' by Shirley Painter

Life on the Ice by Roff Smith

Kevin Brophy reviews 'City and Stranger' by Aileen Kelly, 'In Your Absence: Poems 1994–2002' by Stephen McInerney, and 'Flying Blind' by Deborah Westbury

Into the Blue: Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before by Tony Horwitz

Bearded Ladies/Dreamhouse by Kate Grenville & Joan Makes History by Kate Grenville

Confessing the Blues by Anson Cameron & Saigon Tea by Graham Reilly

Peter Rose reviews 'My Life As Me: A memoir' by Barry Humphries

First Fleet to Federation: Irish supremacy in colonial Australia by Jarlath Ronayne

Peter Pierce reviews 'An Angel in Australia' by Tom Keneally

Three new books on Indonesian politics

Common Ground: Issues that should bind and not divide us by Malcolm Fraser

The Ice and the Inland by Brigid Hains & Australia’s Flying Doctors by Roger McDonald and Richard Woldendorp

Goodbye Babylon: Further journeys in time and politics by

Australia’s Democracy by John Hirst & The Citizens’ Bargain edited by James Walter and Margaret Macleod

To the Islands by Randolph Stow & Tourmaline by Randolph Stow

Frances Devlin-Glass reviews 'Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession' by Barry Hill

Matthew Flinders’ Cat by Bryce Courtenay

Skins by Sarah Hay

Crime of Silence by Patricia Carlon & The Unquiet Night by Patricia Carlon

The Commonwealth of Speech: An Argument about Australia’s Past, Present and Future by Alan Atkinson

Radical Students by Alan Barcan & The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor by Raymond Priestly (ed. Ronald Ridley)

Best Children's and Young Adult Books of the Year 2002

Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age edited by Ilana Snyder

Between Mexico and Poland by Alice Spigelman

Walking Naked by Alyssa Brugman & The Barrumbi Kids by Leonie Norrington

Dianne Schallmeiner reviews 4 CYA picture books

John Lack reviews ‘The Oromo in Exile’ by Greg Gow, ‘From White Australia to Woomera’ by James Jupp, and ‘Mixed Matches’ by Jane Duncan Owen

Stella Lees reviews Seven Children's Non-Fiction Books