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September 1982, no. 44

September 1982, no. 44
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Fiction

Child's Play by David Malouf & Fly Away Peter by David Malouf

by Laurie Clancy
Fiction

An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton

by Graeme Turner
Fiction

Veronica Brady reviews 'Billy Two-Toes’ Rainbow' by Hugh Atkinson, 'The Same Old Story' by James Legasse, 'Force and Defiance' by Gedaliah Shaiak, and 'Pacific Highway' by Michael Wilding

by Veronica Brady
Religion

Mr Santamaria and the Bishops: Studies in the Christian movement by Gerard Henderson

by Peter Kerr
Australian History

Rock Choppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia by Edmund Campion

by John McLaren
Indigenous Studies

Invasion and Resistance

by Peter Biskup
Biography

Don Watson reviews 'Tubbo' by Paul de Serville, 'The Homestead' by Peter Freeman, and 'Homesteads of Southern New South Wales 1830–1900' by Maurice Canton

by Don Watson
Philosophy

Test-Tube Babies edited by William Walters and Peter Singer

by Brian Scarlett
Australian History

Lords of Death by Suzanne Welborn

by Bill Gammage
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