Letters to the Editor
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... (read more)On John Arnold's review of The People’s Force: A history of Victoria Police by Robert Haldane; Richard J. Martin’s review of ‘Against Native Title’: Conflict and creativity in outback Australia by Eve Vincent; and Anwen Crawford's review of Loveless ...
... (read more)Comments from John Miller, Barry Oakley, Davd Fitzpatrick, Claire Rhoden, and Robert Wills.
... (read more)Dear Editor, your editorial on the issue of marriage equality in the December 2017 edition of ABR was a superb contribution. It reminded me of the worthiness of the expression of measured, deliberate, and forcibly expressed anger when it is appropriate ...
... (read more)Dear Editor, It was disappointing to read Stephen Mills’s commentary on my recent Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam government’s 21st century agenda (ABR, 11/17). From a collection of eleven chapters Mills refers to just four and fails to mention the remaining seven. In doing so, he renounces any realistic attempt at a ...
... (read more)Comments from ABR readers, published in the November Arts Issue of Australian Book Review.
... (read more)Marriage equality
See 'The same-sex marriage debate' by Peter Rose
Dear Editor,
How sad it is that the Australian political leadership is so inept, so hostage to minority interests – in this case, those of the conservative Christian variety. This in ...
Raging élites
Dear Editor, Dear Editor,
Until the May 2017 issue, ABR had managed to keep its anti-Trump animus relatively subdued, but with
Scurvy
All authors are perhaps oversensitive to reviews of their books, but I have never been tempted to quarrel with a reviewer until now. Alan Atkinson’s review of Scurvy: The disease of discovery (April 2017) contains a ...
Chilcot and Australia
Dear Editor,
We cannot be reminded often enough of the perfidy that led in succession to the Iraq disaster, the continuing débâcle in the Middle Eas ...