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The sewing woman
IN THE WINDOW on the other side of the narrow canal a woman sat sewing.Susan wished she'd stop, just...
Diplomatic compliance
IN SEPTEMBER 2000, the cadaver of Australia's great foreign policy tragedy of the past quarter century was laid out...
Do I know you?
DELAGE HAD AN engineer's mentality, although he had no training or diploma in engineering, more an inventor's mentality, directed...
Taking on the Mafia
SOME YEARS AGO in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, I stumbled across the Antimafia. Out walking one night I noticed...
The Neon Boneyard
THE ROAD TO the Neon Boneyard is littered with evidence that even the glitz and wealth of Las Vegas...
Harpooned
AYUKAWA WAS PUT on the map when it was wiped off it. A little-known hamlet of rusting hulks and...
Hotel hell
'IT WAS SHORTLY after 3 pm that our worst fears were realised. There was a loud banging on the...
How to become a superpower in three easy steps
IN THE POST-SEPTEMBER 11 world, many middle-ranking countries are starting to ask the question: 'If the United States can...
Death of dualism?
BACK IN 1988, I was working on the Soviet Union in Australia's national intelligence-analysis organisation, the Office of National...
A kind of forgetting
SEVERAL YEARS AFTER she lost her first child, Peter – abducted by his father in early 1950, lost without...
Sorrows of empire
WITH THE FALL of Baghdad, America's dutiful Anglophone allies – the British and Australians – are due for their...
The cigarette seller of Addis Ababa
THE CIGARETTE SELLER of Addis Ababa works her corner, near the entrance to the compound. She buys her cigarettes...
