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November 2004, no. 266
Welcome to the November 2004 issue of
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Full Contents
Poem
'Early Morning at the Mercy' a poem by Dorothy Porter
by
Dorothy Porter
Politics
Media Tarts
by Julia Baird
&
Chika
by Kerry Chikarovski and Luis M. Garcia
by
Rachel Buchanan
Biography
Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War
by Martin Ball
by
Martin Ball
Memoir
Escape into Truth
by
Lisa Gorton
Reference
Well May We Say
edited by Sally Warhaft
&
Speaking for Australia
by Rod Kemp and Marion Stanton
by
James Curran
Memoir
Luther’s Pine: An autobiography
by John Molony
by
Michael McGirr
Australian History
Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia
by Frank Welsh
by
Stuart Macintyre
History
Core of My Heart, My Country: Women’s sense of place and the land in Australia and Canada
by Maggie MacKellar
by
Kate Darian-Smith
Commentary
'"The Observed of All Observers": Biography in poetry'
by
Peter Porter
Memoir
Finding My Voice
by Peter Brocklehurst with Debbie Bennett
&
Wings of Madness
by Jo Buchanan
by
John Rickard
Indonesia
Indonesia's Secret War in Aceh
by John Martinkus
by
John Monfries
Diaries
The Gecko in the Machine
by
Inga Clendinnen
Fiction
The Ambulance Chaser
by Richard Beasley
&
The Naked Husband
by Mark D'Arbanville
by
Tony Smith
Poem
‘Marley Sugar’ a poem by Ashlley Morgan-Shae
by
Ashlley Morgan-Shae
Indigenous Studies
Professional Savages: Captive lives and Western spectacle
by Roslyn Poignant
by
Ann McGrath
Fiction
Scraps of Heaven
by Arnold Zable
by
Michelle Griffin
Fiction
The Broken Book
by Susan Johnson
by
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Biography
The Heart Garden: Sunday Reed and Heide
by Janine Burke
by
Sarah Thomas
Indonesia
The People Next Door
by Duncan Graham
&
Semar's cave
by John Mateer
by
Kiera Lindsey
Cricket
The Waugh Era
by Greg Baum
&
'One who will'
by Jack Egan
by
Gideon Haigh
Biography
Up we grew: Stories of Australian childhoods
by Pamela Bone
by
Anne Coombs
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