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Absolutely Revolting

Non Fiction

The Fighter by Arnold Zable

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Michael McGirr reviews 'The Fighter' by Arnold Zable

Arnold Zable may be unafraid of pain, but he is no masochist. Masochism wants to control pain: Zable is much more of a liberator. Since the publication of his first book ...

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ink in Her Veins: The troubled life of Aileen Palmer by Sylvia Martin

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Susan Lever reviews 'Ink in Her Veins: The troubled life of Aileen Palmer' by Sylvia Martin

In her new biography, Sylvia Martin tells us that Aileen Palmer wanted to be remembered as a poet. Until now, she has been best known as the elder daughter of Vance ...

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Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War by Joy Damousi

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Alistair Thomson reviews 'Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War' by Joy Damousi

When we talk about the importance of Australia's remembered wartime past, we mostly think of home-front experiences or Australians who went away ...

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Stalin's Daughter: The extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews 'Stalin's Daughter: The extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva' by Rosemary Sullivan

Nobody would have expected an ordinary life for Stalin's only daughter, but Svetlana's life was extraordinary beyond any expectations. Her mother killed herself in 1932 ...

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Dying: A memoir by Cory Taylor

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Rachel Robertson reviews 'Dying: A memoir' by Cory Taylor

We must all die, but many of us live as though we don't know this fact. When death comes close to us or our loved ones, we may feel totally unprepared ...

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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical memory and its ironies by David Rieff

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Andrea Goldsmith reviews 'In Praise of Forgetting: Historical memory and its ironies' by David Rieff

Over the past three decades, and particularly since the prime ministership of John Howard, there has been an extraordinary growth in the number of ...

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Credlin & Co by Aaron Patrick & The Road to Ruin by Niki Savva

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Lucas Grainger-Brown reviews 'Credlin & Co.' by Aaron Patrick and 'The Road to Ruin' by Niki Savva

In August 2014, then Prime Minister Tony Abbott gave a short speech disagreeing with the contention put forward in Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise ...

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Places Women Make: Unearthing the Contribution of Women to Our Cities by Jane Jose

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May 2016, no. 381

In Places Women Make, Jane Jose writes that she is ‘not proving a theory about the skills of men versus those of women’, but celebrating ‘the places in cities we know women have given us’.

Jose moves with sometimes disorienting rapidity from place to place, from female lord mayor to colonial matron to feisty 1970s female activist. We learn that the female perspective is ...

'On John Foster' by John Rickard

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May 2016, no. 381

When Take Me to Paris, Johnny was first published in 1993, the AIDS crisis seemed to be at its worst. Many of us had friends and acquaintances who were dying. One began to notice men who, thin and haggard, one feared were suffering from AIDS (women victims being relatively few in number). There was no sign of the drug therapies that would, towards the end o ...

A Little America in Western Australia: The US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape and the Founding of Exmouth by Anthony J. Barker and Michael L. Ondaatje

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March 2016, no. 379
Seumas Spark reviews 'A Little America in Western Australia' by Anthony J. Barker and Michael L. Ondaatje

Visiting Australia in November 2011, President Obama announced plans for the deployment of United States marines to a Darwin base. The decision to establish a permanent American military presence in northern Australia, taken with the support of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Australian government, was part of the 'pivot' to Asia in US defence policy. The idea ...

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