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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 The Best Australian Essays 2006
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Black Inc. , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Information Idol, Gideon Haigh , single work essay (p. 253-269)
White Collar Dreaming, Anna Krien , single work essay
Krien discusses the use of crystal methamphetamine (or 'ice') among white collar workers.
(p. 270-278)
Writing About Us, Georgia Blain , single work autobiography (p. 279-291)
Walking, Saskia Beudel , single work essay
An account of Beudel's 2002 walk along part of the Larapinta Trail in the West MacDonnell Ranges.
(p. 292-310)
Note: With title:Walking: West MacDonnell Ranges 2002
Soap Opera International, Lyndel Rowe , single work essay (p. 311-318)
Departure and Arrival, Joel S. Kahn , single work essay (p. 319-333)
Tanks! Tanks! (You're Most Welcome), Linda Jaivin , single work essay
Linda Jaivin describes the art of the subtitler.
(p. 334-340)
Things to Look into: The Cinema of Terrence Malick, Adrian Martin , single work essay (p. 341-348)
You're Facing the Unthinkable ..., Peter Conrad , single work essay
A review essay about the film United 93 and Martin Amis's story 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta'.
(p. 349-343)
Little America, Robert Manne , single work essay
Manne argues that the early years of the twenty-first century have seen a 'redominionisation of Australia' as the country's relationship with the USA has become progressively closer.
(p. 354-378)
Outcast of Camp Echo, Alfred W. McCoy , single work essay
Professor McCoy argues, in relation to the detention of David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay, that Australia risks 'making itself a moral outcast in the community of nations' by not speaking out against Hicks's treatment.
(p. 379-395)
Justice and Hope, Raimond Gaita , single work essay
Gaita concludes his essay on 'Justice and Hope' with the statement: 'Reflection on duty, on the nautre and requirements of justice, on what it is to honour those requirements, on the virtues and vices of being a dreamer and on the moral psychology of political commitment - these should be informed by Plato's simple but profound insight that we become like what we love.'
(p. 396-409)
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