The Handbag studio / Thomas Keneally -- The tall man / Chloe Hooper -- The one day / David Malouf -- A city obsessed / John Birmingham -- Arrayed for the bridal / Helen Garner -- Big Louis / Inga Clendinnen -- On becoming a Mormon for a while and other madnesses / M.J Hyland -- Patrick White: the final chapter / David Marr -- The great generation of Australian policy / Clive James -- Arthur Boyd: a life / Barry Humphries -- The first sense / Robyn Davidson -- Into a liquid ether / Christos Tsolkas -- Unforgiven / Craig Sherborn -- "What're yer lookin' at yer fuckin' dog?": violence and fear on Zizek's post-polictical neighbourhood / Kevin Brophy -- Bradman the liberator / Frank Devine -- Late starter / Jessica Anderson -- From the red country / Alan Frost -- Flames of death / Gary Hughes -- The inferno / Christina Kenneally -- He and his Man: the 2003 Nobel lecture / J.M Coetzee -- The good old books / Peter Porter -- The experience of literary translation / Simon Leys -- Like love in a marriage / Anna Goldsworthy -- The long fall into steel / Brenda Walker -- Ebony: the girl in the room / Anne Mann -- Shoulder-deep in the entrails / Shane Maloney -- White guilt, victimhood and the the quest for a radical centre / Noel Pearson -- Pearson's gamble, Stanners dream / Robert Mann -- Out of control: the tragedy of Tasmania's forests / Richard Flanagan -- September 11 / Gay Alcorn and Mark Riley -- Darwin's big idea / Nicholas Rothwell -- The lady or the tiger? / Tim Flannery -- The grand illusion / Robert Dessaix -- Tourism / Benjamin Law -- Trouble on the night shift / Anna Krien -- Silent country: travels through a recovering landscape / Tim Winton -- Home truths: revisiting Wake in fright / Kate Jennings -- Quod Potero Sedulo / David Foster.