Archive
Have you ever looked at a duck? There is more to it, to use that peculiar cliché, than meets the eye. Watching ducks has been my labour for some time, but, of course, it will be so only for a limited period. Still, I expect I will always retain the interest now that I have come to know ducks better.
... (read more)Robert Juniper by Philippa O'Brien & Salvatore Zofrea by Ted Snell
by Traudi Allen •
Living in a New Country: History, travelling and language by Paul Carter
by Gerald Murnane •
Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal system of knowledge by Howard Morphy
by Tim Rowse •
Why do we read what we read? Bookshelves groan with biography, travel, social theory far left corner, cultural studies creeping up the front, Baudrillard in the back door and out the front. Some people’s books get featured in the weekend papers, others go straight into the back of the car and the second-hand shops. Love, sweat and tears … what’s it all for?
... (read more)Suffrage to Sufferance: 100 years of women in politics by Janine Haines
by Joan Kirner •