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Know thy neighbour

WHENEVER THE DOORBELL rings late at night in our small Peking University apartment, we know who to expect. Our...

Set it down!

WAR IS A particularly slippery subject for any cold eye to fasten on. In May 2014 I was walking...

Recessional

The tumult and the shouting dies;The Captains and the Kings depart…Rudyard Kipling, ‘Recessional’ SAM COMES UP to her at work....

Making nations

IT SEEMS POIGNANTLY appropriate that the web address gallipoli.net.au, which features the logo ‘Gallipoli: The Making of a Nation’,...

On ‘Bran Nue Dae’, by Jimmy Chi

Amid the fun and laughter of the film, memories of the original musical streamed back to me. I know it well; I spent time with Jimmy Chi and his partner, Glennys Allen, in Broome in the mid-1980s when he was working on the songs and the concept. I’d made my own road trip to Broome in a canary-yellow V8 station wagon that was covered with red dust.

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