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This issue includes a special section 'Corporate Welfare & the Working Poor'
Contents
- Philip Ruddock : Philatelisti"Where is the young lad? Philip? Philip?", single work poetry (p. 6)
- The Living Roomi"It was where they sat at night", single work poetry (p. 6)
- A Jackson Pollock Dayi"Graham Rowlands sensed it was there", single work poetry satire (p. 16)
- The Priorities of the Righti"Bluey is overweight at 40kg", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Exercising ori"This time of imperatives", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Rosemary for Remembrance (from a work-in-progress), single work extract novel (p. 29-30)
- This Is How I Like to Be Remembered, single work autobiography (p. 31-32)
- Serpent, prose (p. 33)
- Time (from : Postcards from the End of the World), extract prose (p. 33)
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Going Native : Disguise, Forgery, Imagination and the 'European Aboriginal',
single work
criticism
The article discusses the phenomenon of the 'white blackfellow' and the changing motivations of Europeans 'going native'. It argues that, in reporting about their experiences of living among Aborigines, some writers, as for instance Marlo Morgan in her successful but fraudulent book Mutant Message Down Under, are living out their own fantasies and quests for spiritual fulfilment rather than representing the realities of contemporary Aboriginal people and life. The author also discusses the pros and cons with regard to more recent notion of 'cultural protocols' for non-indigenous writers in portraying Aboriginal life.
- Budget **** (Censored)i"Ladies, Gentlemen and Your Honour Mr Speaker, I table before you the Bill for the", single work poetry (p. 47)
- Razor-wire Nationi"they ran a line of wire", single work poetry (p. 47)
- Melbourne Assessment Prison 2002i"When you ring the voice on the other end", single work poetry (p. 47)
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New Issues, Old Issues : The Australian Tradition Revisited,
single work
criticism
McLaren discusses a number of Australian novels (all recently re-issued) which have been central to developing the way in which Australians and foreigners think about white society in this continent. He distinguishes several trends and traditions in describing and characterising Australia's social and political system. Whereas Clarke and Richardson present Australia as a prison, Palmer and Waten present it as a land offering the promise of freedom. Furphy, on the other hand, is seen as a writer 'who shows us a country seeming to offer plentitude but finally withholding its promise' (54).
McLaren concludes that the 'past expressed in these fictions variously produced values of solidarity, egalitarianism, harmony with the land, but their values remain circumscribed by fear of the powerless and the dispossessed, by the arrogance of the powerful, and by distrust of the outsider. Our future will be secure only as we accept continuity with the past, enter into dialogue with the differences of the present, and accept a common responsibility towards the land that supports us' (56).
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Cop-killer Hero : Recent Words on Ned Kelly,
single work
review
— Review of I Am Ned Kelly 1980 single work biography ; The Jerilderie Letter 1879 single work correspondence ; (p. 57-60) - The Coat Layer Systemi"Three hundred words scribbled on the side of a factory building. Thirty undercoats on", single work poetry (p. 60)
- Perfect World, single work short story (p. 64-65)
- Song of Excess, single work short story (p. 66-67)
- Human Pollutioni"The apartment blocks reach for the sun", single work poetry (p. 68)
- Limericki"These words should be writ ten foot high,", single work poetry (p. 68)
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Literary Mag
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 April 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Overland no. 170 Autumn 2003 periodical issue
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Literary Mag
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 April 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Overland no. 170 Autumn 2003 periodical issue