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March 2008, no. 299
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Fiction
The Con
by Jesse Pentecost
by
Christina Hill
Sport
Boycott: The story behind Australia’s controversial involvement in the 1980 Moscow Olympics
by Lisa Forrest
by
Brian Stoddart
Commentary
Dishonouring our writers
by
Peter Rose
Poem
'Danger: Lantana', a new poem by Ross Clark
by
Ross Clark
Fiction
Fear of Tennis
by David Cohen
by
Louise Swinn
Memoir
Lifelines: Breaking out of locked-in syndrome
by Peter Couche
by
Gillian Dooley
Fiction
Many Years a Thief
by David Hutchison
by
Rebecca Starford
Rough Justice: Unanswered questions from the Australian courts
by Robin Bowles
by
Grant Bailey
Marking time
by
Peter Rose
Quite an experience
by
Brian McFarlane
Philosophy
Deathless company
by
Simon Marginson
Letters
Letters | March 2008
by
Richard Walsh, Ian Britain, Elisabeth Holdsworth
Fiction
Explain away
by
Judith Armstrong
Art
The bohemian way
by
Vivien Gaston
Biography
Mythic Sculthorpe
by
Elliott Gyger
Journalism
Unlikely hero
by
Nick Fischer
Non-fiction
Chairman Rupert
by
Richard Walsh
Art
Nolan and insolence
by
Daniel Thomas
Non-fiction
Castellating the New World
by
Humphrey McQueen
Non-fiction
Struggle against imputiny
by
James Upcher
Memoir
In a warm, soft place
by
Carol Middleton
Fiction
A chick-lit Trojan Horse
by
Jo Case
Military History
Rattling the consciences
by
Martin Ball
Fiction
It's about killing people
by
Tony Smith
Poetry
The Catalano world
by
Martin Duwell
Memoir
The battle of the bulge
by
Steve Christie
Literary Studies
The Zola Affair
by
Françoise Grauby
Literary Studies
Esoteric quest
by
Frances Devlin-Glass
Young Adult Fiction
Variety and variance
by
Pam Macintyre
Diaries
Diary | ‘2007 - about must and about must go’ by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Commentary
‘The fortunes of Martin Boyd’ by Elspeth Sandys
by
Elspeth Sandys
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