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Academies

Issue 44: March 2008
Anne Maxwell reviews Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand edited by Laurence Simmons, and Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual, edited by Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguly.

Issue 44: March 2008
Extracts from Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science by Raewyn Connell

Issue 41: February 2007
"Of Jogis and mediators, musicologists and administrators: an elaborated field note" by John Napier

Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
In " Negotiating the Creative and the Critical" Peta Mitchell reviews Paul Dawson's Creative Writing and the New Humanities

Issue 39 - 40 September
David Carter's Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies is reviewed by Georgine Clarsen

Issue 37: December 2005
Ken Gelder takes a steely-eyed look at Australian research culture in 'Notes on the Research Future of Australian Literary Studies'

Issue 35: June 2005
Fiona Probyn reviews Whitening Race edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.

Issue 33: August-October 2004
An interview with noted historian Jill Roe

Issue 29: May-June 2003
Julian Murphet ‘September 11 has changed Literary Studies’

Issue 26: June - August 2002
In Leaving "ME" Gillian Whitlock considers the exodus of humanities
academics from Australian universities.

Issue 13: April - June 1999
In Post-Apartheid Violence and the Institution of Literature Brendon Nicholls offers a critique of literature studies in a liberated South Africa

Issue 10: May - August 1998
Kerryn Goldsworthy's Needing His Signature

Issue 6: June - July 1997
Robert Dessaix writes about teaching Russian in Australia in Russia: the End of an Affair

Issue 3: September - November 1996
Humphrey McQueen's essay Professions of Power

Issue 1: April - June 1996
Is English an Emancipatory Discipline? Ian Hunter

Art

Issue 44: March 2008
Keys to the South by Kevin Murray.

Issue 44: March 2008
The South in Southern Theory: Antipodean Reflections on the Pacific by Margaret Jolly

Issue 42: August 2007
Helen Hewitt provides a comparative review of Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women by Joseph Wiesenfarth and 'Conversation Piece' in Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska.

Issue 42: August 2007
“A Sign of the Crimes”: Adam Hill political artist, visionary and critic of Australian whiteness” - an interview with Vicki Grieves

Issue 35: June 2005
Chris Danta reviews Andrew Benjamin's Disclosing Spaces: On Painting.

Issue 31-32: April 2004
Ian Maclean reviews Nikos Papastergiadis (ed.), Complex Entanglements Art, Globalisation and Cultural Diifferenc

Issue 29: May-June 2003
Marita Bullock reviews 'The Devil’s Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire' by Alan Krell.

Issue 26: June - August 2002
Natalya Lusty reviews What is Installation? An Anthology of Writings on Australian Installation, edited by Adam Geczy and Benjamin Genocchio.

Issue 24: December 2001 - February 2002
Phillip Kent reviews Impossible Presence, surface and screen in the photogenic era, edited by Terry Smith

Issue 23: September - November 2001
Lisanne Gibson The Uses of Art: Constructing Australian Identities;
and Tim Rowse reviews Lisanne Gibson's The Uses of Art: Constructing Australian Identities

Issue 22: June - August 2001
John Docker Arabesques of the Cosmopolitan and International: Lucien Henry, Baroque Allegory and Islamophilia

Issue 20: December 2000 - February 2001
Tim Bonyhady Papunya Stories

Asia

Issue 44: March 2008
‘Cultural Studies' Networking Strategies in the South' by Stephen Muecke.

Issue 44: March 2008
The South in Southern Theory: Antipodean Reflections on the Pacific by Margaret Jolly.

Issue 37: December 2005
Jean Gelman Taylor reviews Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam by Greg Barton; and Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present, edited by Mary S. Zurbuchen.

Issue 35: June 2005
In "Australasian Interactions: Contested Geographies of 'White Australia'" Adrian Carton reviews Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan by Daniel Oakman and Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait, edited by Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsay and Yuriko Nagata.

Issue 34: January - February 2005
Anette Bremer reviews The Cruise Of The Janet Nichol Among The South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson edited by Roslyn Jolly.

Issue 22: June - August 2001
Anthony Burke Australia's Asian Crisis

Issue 20: December 2000 - February 2001
Simon Philpott reviews Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra by Desmond Ball and Hamish McDonald.

Biography & Life Writing

• Issue 43: December 2007
  John Milfull examines writing from below in 'Short Stories? Brecht, Adorno, Grass, and the Child's Eye View'

• Issue 43: December 2007
  In her essay 'Truth, writing and national belonging in Romulus, My Father' Brigitta Olubas considers the 'special propensity' of memoir to open up questions of self and time 'within the sweep of experience of the nation'.

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Helen Hewitt provides a comparative review of Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women by Joseph Wiesenfarth and 'Conversation Piece' in Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska.

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "'Yellow-haired September': a reflection on the national floral emblem in AJ Campbell's Golden Wattle" by Ian Campbell

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "'No one but I will know': Hal Porter's Honesty" by Noel Rowe

• Issue 35: June 2005
  "Writing whiteness: the personal turn" by Anne Brewster

• Issue 34: January - February 2005
  Split Lives: Croatian-Australian Stories, edited by Val Colic-Peisker, is reviewed by Christine Choo.

• Issue 34: January - February 2005
  Anette Bremer reviews The Cruise Of The Janet Nichol Among The South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson edited by Roslyn Jolly.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  An interview with noted historian Jill Roe

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Michele Grossman's 'One man's history is another woman's lie'

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Lyndall Ryan reviews Marilyn Lake’s biography of Faith Bandler, Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Janie Conway-Herron-'Walking Manhattan: Mapping the Heart'

• Issue 28: January - March 2003
  In an excerpt from Bird Song Thunder and A Few Drops of Rain: Merv Lilley writing
  personally, Dorothy Hewett's husband, fellow writer Merv Lilley, records his vigil in the latter
  stages of her illness.

• Melissa Hardie's Hewettiana presents a poetic tribute to Dorothy Hewett in a catalogue
  of characteristics.

• Issue 26: June - August 2002
  In Leaving "ME" Gillian Whitlock considers the exodus of humanities
  academics from Australian universities.

• Issue 25: March 2002
  Anne Brewster Aboriginal life writing and globalisation: Doris Pilkington's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

• Issue 24: December 2001 - February 2002
  Biography and Compassionate Truth: Writing a Life of Janet Frame by Michael King.

• Issue 22: June - August 2001
  Adib Khan's Following Janus' Footsteps

• Issue 18: June - August 2000
  Autobiographies, John Docker

• Issue 17: March - May 2000
  Adam Aitken considers the representation of Michael Dransfield in Patricia Dobrez's recent biography.

• Issue 16: December 1999 - February 2000
  In Dogs in the Graveyard Cassandra Pybus raises questions about writerly responsibility.
  Gillian Whitlock reviews Rosamund Dalziell's study on autobiography and shame.

• Issue 14: July - September 1999
  John Docker's launch of The Devil and James McAuleyby Cassandra Pybus.

• Issue 12: December 1998 - March 1999
  Brian Castro Dangerous Dancing: Autobiography and Disinheritance

Culture – Popular & Media

Issue 43: December 2007
Ian Buchanan's provocative essay 'Deleuze and the Internet' debates Deleuze's claim that, 'in effect, our body has been replaced as the principal site of power by our profile'.

Issue 42: August 2007
“Aboriginal Children” by Philip Morrissey

Issue 41: February 2007
"Thieves and Fascists: the Politics of Abjection in Radiohead's Hail to the Thief (The Gloaming)" by Kate Livett

Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
"Popular Fiction / Literary Fiction / Popular Fusions: a review of Ken Gelder's  Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of the Literary Field" by Anne Galligan

Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
"When they write what we read: Unsettling Indigenous Australian life-writing" by Michelle Grossman

Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
"Antipodean Automobility and Crash: Treachery, trespass, and the transformation of the open road" by Catherine Simpson

Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
"Beyond Complicity: Questions and issues for white women in Aboriginal history" by Victoria Haskins

Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
Carole Ferrier interrogates the current privileged presence of 'family' in Australian political discourse, tracing its contestation through 100 years of feminist debate and representation, and compelled to ask again: 'So, What is to be Done About the Family?'

Issue 38: April 2006
In "Making Queer for the United States of Empire" Paul Allatson identifies the ways 'queer' is deployed to strengthen the connection between compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory consumerism

Issue 38: April 2006
Monique Rooney's essay "Networking In Fortress Los Angeles: Sexuality, Race And The Postmodern Metropolis In The L Word" reads the televisual lesbian as personifying the postmodern landscape she inhabits

Issue 36: July 2005
Richard Waterhouse reviews Dance Hall and Picture Palace; Sydney's Romance With Modernity by Jill Julius Matthews.

Issue 34 January-February 2005
Ian Henderson considers ?The Ethics Of Fellowship in Two Antipodean War Films: Gallipoli (1981) And The Lord Of The Rings (2001-2003)? and discovers unexpected connections in the representation of masculine relationships.

Issue 33 August-October 2004
Alan Morris' Essay “Is This Racism? Representations Of South Africa in the Sydney Morning Herald since the Inauguration Of Thabo Mbeki As President”

Issue 31-32: April 2004
' Renovating Reality TV' by Ian Buchanan
Binoy Kampmark- 'Wars that never take place: Non-events, 9/11 and Wars on Terrorism'

Issue 29: May-June 2003
Ian Buchanan 'August 26, 2001: Two or Three Things Australians Don’t Seem to Want to Know About "Asylum Seekers" …'

Issue 28: January - March 2003
Frances Peters Little: The Impossibility Of Pleasing Everybody: A Legitimate Role For White Filmmakers Making Black Films

Monique Rooney reviews Helen Keane's What's Wrong with Addiction and Elizabeth Wurtzel's More, Now, Again

Cultural Values and Cultural Death in The Lord of the Rings by Martin Ball

Cutting Ordinary: an ABC True Story by Jennifer Rutherford

Amir Ahmadi reviews Michael Dummet's On Immigration and Refugees and
'Race' Panic and the Memory of Migration, edited by Meaghan Morris and
Brett de Bary.

Issue 27: September – December 2002
"Documentary Affect: Filming Rubbish" by Gay Hawkins

Issue 27: September – December 2002
Which Rabbit-Proof Fence? Empathy, Assimilation, Hollywood
by Tony Hughes D'aeth

Issue 26: June – August 2002
Susan Bye looks at the pleasures and problematics of reading the Australian Women's Weekly in her review of Who was that Woman?: The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years by Susan Sheridan with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan.
See also an excerpt from Who was that Woman?: The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years.

Issue 25: March – May 2002
Tom Burvill reviews Culture in Australia ? Policies, Publics, and Programs, edited by Tony Bennett and David Carter

Issue 25: March – May 2002
Anna Gibbs Contagious Feelings: Pauline Hanson and the Epidemiology of Affect

Issue 22: June - August 2001
Ian Buchanan Enjoying 'Reality TV'

Issue 18: June - August 2000
Guy Davidson reviews James Donald's Imagining the Modern City

Issue 14: July - September 1999
Audio-visualising Derrida Steven Maras

Issue 13: April - June 1999
Suburban Oblique by Melissa Hardie

Issue 10: May - August 1998
Beth Spencer's article D-Cups, Groin-guards & Supermodels: Writing the body into history

Issue 7: August - October 1997
Simon During Teaching Culture
Ian Buchanan Deleuze and Pop Music

Cyberculture

• Issue 44: March 2008
  David Carter reviews Sherman Young's The Book is Dead (Long Live the Book)

• Issue 27: September – December 2002
  After the Dotcom Crash: Recent Literature on Internet, Business and Society by Geert Lovink

• Issue 15: October - November 1999
  An excerpt from McKenzie Wark's celebrities, culture and cyberspace: the light on the hill in a postmodern world

• Gillian Fuller reviews McKenzie Wark's celebrities, culture and cyberspace.

Ecological Humanities

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Australia and the New Geographies of Climate Change by Emily Potter and Paul Starr.

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Emily Potter reviews Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica by Tom Griffiths.

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Shadow Places and the Politics of Dwelling by Val Plumwood.

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Paul Gillen reviews The Ways of the Bushwalker by Melissa Harper

• Issue 43: December 2007
  Tom Griffiths looks at the contributions the humanities can make to debates about an Environmentally Sustainable Australia.

• Issue 43: December 2007
  Freya Mathews explores 'ontopoetics': the poetics of the living world.

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Kim Humphery reviews The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish by Gay Hawkins

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Libby Robin “The Problematic Pastoral: Ecocriticism in Australia”: a review of C. A. Cranston and Robert Zeller (eds.) The Littoral Zone, 2007.

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Saskia Beudel “Kim Mahood's Evolving Geographies”: a review of Kim Mahood, Craft for a Dry Lake, 2000 and other writing

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Stuart Cooke “Remembering Romanticism, Negating Negativity: on Kate Rigby's Ecopoetics”: a review of Kate Rigby, Topographies of the Sacred, 2004.

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Thom van Dooren “Sheep Futures”: a review of Sarah Franklin Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy, 2007.

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Val Plumwood “Human Exceptionalism and the Limits of Animals”: a review of Raymond Gaita, The Philosopher's Dog, 2005

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Heather Goodall “Water Literatures”: a review of Amita Bavaskar (ed) Waterscapes, 2007.

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Val Plumwood on Deborah Rose, Reports from a Wild Country, 2005

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Cameron Muir on Manoa (Special Australian Issue, 2007)

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Emily O'Gorman on Libby Robin, How a Continent Created a Nation, 2007

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Natasha Fijn on Adrian Franklin, Animal Nation, 2006

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Natasha Fijn on Graham Harvey, Animism: Respecting the Living World, 2006

• Issue 42: August 2007
  Deborah Rose on Fiona Magowan, Melodies of Mourning, 2007

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Introduction to Eco-Humanities: Back home to Ecology" by Libby Robin

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "His own vine and fig tree" by Andrea Gaynor

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Home Cooked Philosophising" by Rebecca Lucas

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Revisiting Dot and the Kangaroo: Finding a Way in the Australian Bush" by Ulla Rahbek

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "'Yellow-haired September': a reflection on the national floral emblem in AJ Campbell's Golden Wattle" by Ian Campbell

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Home and away: Australian sense of place" by Libby Robin

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "From the Heart: a review of Heartland: The Regeneration of Rural Place by George Main" and "On Nature Writing" by Mark Tredinnick

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "mound spring" by Miriel Lenore

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Heron" by Stephen Edgar

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Pinchgut Creek" by George Main

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "What Bird Was That?" by Nick Drayson

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "What the cassowary does not need to know" by Stephen Muecke

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Travelling in a caravan" by Peter Boyle

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Writing After Nature" by Kate Rigby

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Whatever Becomes Itself" and "Trio: The Law of the Minimum, The Corporation and the Parrot, The Question of Obi Obi Creek" by MTC Cronin

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Adrian Franklin writes about wilderness

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Sarah Bell and Michael Moller write about drought on farms

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Kate Rigby's review essay "Minding (about) Matter: On the Eros and Anguish of Earthly Encounter" engages with Freya Mathews' two recent titles: For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism and Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture

• Issue 37: December 2005
  An excerpt from Kate Rigby's Topographies of the Sacred

• Issue 37: December 2005
  Ecological Crisis and Australian Literary Representation by Emilly Potter

• Issue 37: December 2005
  Australian Suburban Imaginaries of Nature: Towards a prospective history by Aidan Davison

• Issue 36: July 2005
  The proceedings of Desert Gardens: Waterless lands and the problems of adaptation, convened by Ian Donaldson and Libby Robin for the Australian National University's Humanities Research Centre in March 2005.

• Issue 35: June 2005
  Gregory Bateson and Ecological Aesthetics
  "Introduction" by Peter Harries-Jones
  "Chasing Whales with Bateson and Daniel" by Katja Neves-Graça
  "Pattern, Connection, Desire: In honour of Gregory Bateson" by Deborah Bird Rose
  "Comments on Deborah Rose and Katja Neves-Graca" from Mary Catherine Bateson.

• Issue 34: January-February 2005
  An Introduction from Deborah Rose and Libby Robin

• Issue 34: January-February 2005
  A preview of Rod Giblett's new book Living With The Earth: Mastery To Mutuality.

• Issue 34: January-February 2005
  In her essay "On Not Eating The Limb Of A Living Animal': Rethinking Our Relations With (Other) Animals" Kate Rigby look at the ways many contemporary theologians and biblical scholars have been challenged to rethink their religious traditions along ecophilosophical lines.

• Issue 34: January-February 2005
  Nicholas Gill And Kay Anderson consider some of the myths and practices of Australian pastoral settlement in their essay "Improvement In The Inland: Culture And Nature In The Australian Rangelands".

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  George Main’s essay “Red Steers and White Death: fearing nature in rural Australia” observes the erratic and halting nature of initial between people and land.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  In her essay “Letting The World Do The Doing” Freya Mathews asks “What is nature, and how are we to live with it rather than against it?”

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  An Invitation from Deborah Rose and Libby Robin

• Issue 31-32: April 2004
  The Ecological Humanities in Action: An Invitation from Deborah Rose

• Issue 31-32: April 2004
  Libby Robin reviews Andreas Roepstorff, Nils Bubandt and Kalevi Kull (eds) Imagining Nature: Practices of Cosmology and Identity,

Gender & Feminism

• Issue 41: February 2007
  Tamara Popowski reviews Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body by Elizabeth Wilson

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  God's Willing Workers: Women and Religion in Australia by Anne O'Brien is reviewed by Jane Carey.

• Issue 35: June 2005
  Elizabeth Webby reviews Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew.

• Issue 28: January - March 2003
  Maree Murray reviews Domestic Service in Australia, by B. W. Higman

• Issue 26: June – August 2002
  "Australian Feminism and Cultural Critique, circa 2002": Tara Brabazon, Ladies who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002); and Sylvia Lawson, How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: Stories and Essays (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2002): reviewd by Margaret Henderson
  and Susan Bye looks at the pleasures and problematics of reading the Australian Women's Weekly in her review of Who was that Woman?: The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years by Susan Sheridan with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan.
  See also an excerpt from Who was that Woman?: The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years.

• Issue 24: December 2001 - February 2002
  Sara Knox reviews Joy Damousi's study of Australian women, war and grief: Living with the aftermath

• Issue 22: June - August 2001
  Adulterous liaisons: Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen and feminist reading by Sue Thomas

• The Limits of Manliness by Martin Crotty

• Issue 17: March - May 2000
  Wendy Hollway reviews Elizabeth Wilson's Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition,and its "shocking" implications for feminist psychology.

• Issue 10: May - August 1998
  Beth Spencer's article D-Cups, Groin-guards & Supermodels: Writing the body into history
  Kerryn Goldsworthy's Needing His Signature

• Issue 4: December 1996 - February 1997
  Terry Threadgold Cultural Studies, Feminist Values: Strange Bedfellows or Sisters in Crime?

• Issue 4: December 1996
  R.W Connell Politics of Changing Men

• Issue 1: April - June 1996
  Peter Jackson A Persistence of Gender: From Ancient Indian Pandakas to Modern Thai Gay-quings

History & Cultural Memory

• Issue 44: March 2008
  “Inhabited by a race of formidable giants”: French Explorers, Aborigines, and the Endurance of the Fantastic in the Great South Land, 1803 by Shino Konishi.

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "His own vine and fig tree" by Andrea Gaynor

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  God's Willing Workers: Women and Religion in Australia by Anne O'Brien is reviewed by Jane Carey.

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  Benjamin Miller reviews Maria Nugent's Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet

• Issue 37: December 2005
  'Notes from Underground: of Moles, Metros and Messiahs' by John Milfull

• Issue 37: December 2005
  'The No Road Film: Trackers, Followers and Fanatics' by Fiona Probyn

• Issue 36: July 2005
  Richard Waterhouse reviews Dance Hall and Picture Palace; Sydney's Romance With Modernity by Jill Julius Matthews.

• Issue 36: July 2005
  In “War in the age of intelligent machines and unintelligent government” Ian Buchanan argues that the most terrifying phase of the war machine is when peace itself is the target of destruction and perpetual unrest the desired solution of war.

• Issue 35: June 2005
  In 'Genocide and Colonialism, III': Lorenzo Veracini reviews Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History edited by A. Dirk Moses.

• Issue 34: January - February 2005
  Split Lives: Croatian-Australian Stories, edited by Val Colic-Peisker, is reviewed by Christine Choo.

• Issue 34: January- February
  In "Beyond Glitter To Grief" Catherine Simpson Reviews Australian Cinema After Mabo By Felicity Collins And Therese Davis.

• Issue 34: January- February
  In ?The Riddle Of The Index: Subverting The Empire And Exploration? Simon Ryan reviews Subverting The Empire: Explorers And Exploration In Australian Fiction by Paul Genoni.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  An interview with noted historian Jill Roe

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Tim Rowse compares Indigenous Autobiography in Australia and the United States.

• Issue 21-32: April 2004
  Tony Harris reviews Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis (eds), It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labo

• Issue 31-32:
  "Making 'Australia' through Words" Suzanne Eggins reviews The Default Country: a lexical cartography of twentieth-century Australia by JM Arthur

• Issue 30: October 2003
  John Milfull reviews German Anzacs and the First World War by John F. Williams

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Angela Rockel reviews Paul Carter's Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia, in 'Comforting Lot's wife'

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Andrew Murphie reviews Simon During’s Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Lorenzo Veracini discusses a conference on 'Genocide and Colonialism' and its implications for Australian debates.

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Binoy Kampmark- 'Wars that never take place: Non-events, 9/11 and Wars on Terrorism'

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Ian Buchanan- 'August 26, 2001: Two or Three Things Australians Don’t Seem to Want to Know About "Asylum Seekers" …'

• Issue 28: January - March 2003
  Sean Slavin reviews Contagion: epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax, edited by Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker

• Issue 24: December 2001 - February 2002
  Intertwining Histories: Heritage and Diversity Ien Ang

• Issue 19: September - November 2000
  Ken Gelder reviews Peter Read's latest book in The Imaginary Eco-(Pre-) Historian in Peter Read's Belonging as a Postcolonial 'Symptom'.

• Issue 18: June - August 2000
  Travelling in Deep Time by Tom Griffiths

• Issue 13: April - June 1999
  John Frow's In the Penal Colony is an examination of the relationship between the nation state and cultural memory

• Issue 10: May - August 1998
  Beth Spencer's article D-Cups, Groin-guards & Supermodels: Writing the body into history

• Issue 4: December 1996 - February 1997
  Inga Clendinnen Fellow Sufferers: History and Imagination

• Issue 1: April - June 1996
  Henry Reynolds's After Mabo, What About Aboriginal Sovereignty?
  The Past as Future: Aborigines, Australia and the (dis)course of History by Bain Attwood

Hoaxes & Scandals in the Culture Wars

• Issue 27: September – December 2002
  "Faking It for Real: K.K. Ruthven's Book of Literary Fraud"
  Reviewed by Martin Wechselblatt

• Issue 1: April - June 1996
  Demidenko discussion

Indigenous Issues

• Issue 44: March 2008
  “Inhabited by a race of formidable giants”: French Explorers, Aborigines, and the Endurance of the Fantastic in the Great South Land, 1803 by Shino Konishi.

• Issue 42: August 2007
  In “Ways of Thinking and Ways of Being: Communicating Culture in an Aboriginal Community” Virginia Watson reviews Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community by Jennifer Deger

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “Who is the white subject? reading, writing, whiteness” by Alison Ravenscroft

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “Aboriginal Children” by Philip Morrissey

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “Kin-fused Reconciliation: Bringing them Home, Bringing Us Home” by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “A Sign of the Crimes”: Adam Hill political artist, visionary and critic of Australian whiteness” - an interview with Vicki Grieves

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “Personal Reflections on Whiteness and Three Film Projects” by Rolf de Heer

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  Benjamin Miller reviews Maria Nugent's Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet

• Issue 37: December 2005
  'The No Road Film: Trackers, Followers and Fanatics' by Fiona Probyn

• Issue 36: July 2005
  Ken Gelder reviews Stephen Muecke's Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture, and Indigenous Philosophy

• Issue 35: June 2005
  Fiona Probyn reviews Whitening Race edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.

• Issue 35: June 2005
  In 'Genocide and Colonialism, III': Lorenzo Veracini reviews Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History edited by A. Dirk Moses.

• Issue 35: June 2005
  "Writing whiteness: the personal turn" by Anne Brewster

• Issue 34: January- February
  In "Beyond Glitter To Grief" Catherine Simpson Reviews Australian Cinema After Mabo By Felicity Collins And Therese Davis.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Katherine Russo reviews The Circle and the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature by Eva Rusk Knudsen.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Angela Rockel reviews Peter Read’s Haunted Earth, as a record of “the conversations that are occurring with/in place for non-indigenous Australians”.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Anita Heiss reviews some new Aboriginal literature: Larissa Behrendt’s novel Home and Samuel Wagan Watson’s poetry collection Smoke Encrypted Whispers.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Greg Lehman reviews Anita Heiss’ Dhuuluu-Yala (To Talk Straight): Publishing Indigenous Literature

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Tim Rowse compares Indigenous Autobiography in Australia and the United States.

• Issue 31-32: April 2004
  "Rabbit-Proof Fence and the Commodification of Indigenous Experience" by Emily Potter and Kay Schaffer

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Lorenzo Veracini discusses a conference on 'Genocide and Colonialism' and its implications for Australian debates.

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Michele Grossman's 'One man's history is another woman's lie'

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Lyndall Ryan reviews Marilyn Lake’s biography of Faith Bandler, Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist

• Issue 28: January - March 2003
  Mitchell Rolls offers an 'unmitigated polemic' on "Why I Don't Want to be an "Ethical"
  Researcher"
  Frances Peters Little: The Impossibility Of Pleasing Everybody: A Legitimate Role For White Filmmakers Making Black Films

• Issue 27: September – December 2002
  "Genocide and Colonialism" In conversation with Lorenzo Veracini, Ann Curthoys and John Docker discuss some of the issues at stake for Australian Aboriginal history in current international debates about the definitions of genocide.
  Which Rabbit-Proof Fence? Empathy, Assimilation, Hollywood
  by Tony Hughes D'aeth

• Issue 26: June – August 2002
  Colin Groves analyses how the social sciences are currently deployed in racist arguments around indigenous sovereignty and land rights;
  and Fiona Probyn questions the ways in which indigenous cultural practices are harnessed for a debate around academic disciplinarity in Lynne Hume's Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australia.

• Issue 25: March – May 2002
  Anne Brewster Aboriginal life writing and globalisation: Doris Pilkington's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
  Georgine Clarsen Still Moving: Bush Mechanics in the Central Desert
  Mission Girls and Loving Protection?, Ros Kidd's review of Christine Choo's, Mission Girls: Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900-1950, and Fiona Paisley's Loving Protection?: Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights, 1919-1939.

• Issue 24: December 2001 - February 2002
  Intertwining Histories: Heritage and Diversity Ien Ang

• Issue 22: June - August 2001
  Kay Schaffer's In Manne's Generation: White Nation Responses to the Stolen Generation Report

• Issue 20: December 2000 - February 2001
  Tim Bonyhady's Papunya Stories and an extract from The Colonial Earth.

• Issue 19: September - November 2000
  Those two little words by Beth Spencer

• Issue 19: September - November 2000
  Paradox on the Queensland Frontier: Platypus, lungfish and other vagaries of nineteenth-century science by Libby Robin

• Issue 18: June - August 2000
  Travelling in Deep Time by Tom Griffiths

• Issue 15: October -November 1999
  Re-membering and taking up an ethics of listening: a response to loss and the maternal in "the stolen children" by Brigitta Olubas and Lisa Greenwell

• Issue 14: July - September 1999
  Sue Stanton's Time for Truth: Speaking the Unspeakable – Genocide and Apartheid in the 'Lucky' Country

• Re-membering and taking up an ethics of listening: a response to loss and the maternal in "the stolen children" by Brigitta Olubas and Lisa Greenwell

• and Cracking Up by Hannah Fink

• Issue 12: December 1998 - March 1999
  Anita Heiss on Sister Girl, the writings of Aboriginal activist and historian Jackie Huggins.

• Issue 11: September - November 1998
  Alexis Wright's essay, Breaking Taboos

• Issue 9: February - April 1998
  Henry Reynolds: The Stolen Children – Their Stories: an afterword
  Carmel Bird's The Stolen Children – Their Stories
  John Frow's A Politics of Stolen Time

• Issue 8: November 1997 - January 1998
  Fiona Paisley's Race and Remembrance: Contesting Aboriginal Child Removal in the Inter-War Years

• Issue 5: March - May 1997
  Lucy Frost Fear of Passing takes a controversial position on the revelations about the racial background of writer Mudrooroo

• Issue 1: April - June 1996
  Henry Reynolds's After Mabo, What About Aboriginal Sovereignty?
  The Past as Future: Aborigines, Australia and the (dis)course of History by Bain Attwood
  Rosemary Hunter's Aboriginal Histories, Australian Histories, and the Law
  The Forced Repatriation of Archaeological Materials by Tim Murray and Jim Allen See also the following emuse discussions:
  Mabo, Wik and the Racial Issues section of this archive

Literature

• Issue 37: December 2005
  Ken Gelder takes a steely-eyed look at Australian research culture in 'Notes on the Research Future of Australian Literary Studies'

• Issue 36: July 2005
  In “Reading the Other” Grant Hamilton reviews Derek Attridge's study of J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event.

• American Literature

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Andrew Murphie reviews Simon During’s Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Lainie Jones 'Life Imitates Art: The Chronotope of the Twin Towers in Fact and Fiction'.

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Julian Murphet ‘September 11 has changed Literary Studies’

• Issue 23: September - November 2001
  Monique Rooney's Grave endings: the representation of passing deploys Kimberley Pearce's film Boy's Don't Cry to consider gender/race passing narratives in American literature and film.

 

• Australian Literature

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Revisiting Dot and the Kangaroo: Finding a Way in the Australian Bush" by Ulla Rahbek

• Issue 28: January - March 2003
  Elizabeth Webby reviews Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew.

• Issue 34: January- February 2005
  In ?The Riddle Of The Index: Subverting The Empire And Exploration? Simon Ryan reviews Subverting The Empire: Explorers And Exploration In Australian Fiction by Paul Genoni.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Katherine Russo reviews The Circle and the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature by Eva Rusk Knudsen.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Anita Heiss reviews some new Aboriginal literature: Larissa Behrendt’s novel Home and Samuel Wagan Watson’s poetry collection Smoke Encrypted Whispers.

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Bernadette Brennan compares two recent histories of Australian theatre: Michelle Arrow’s Upstaged: Australian women dramatists in the limelight at last, and Julian Meyrick’s See How It Runs: Nimrod and the New Wave.

• Issue 28: January - March 2003
  Susan Sheridan reviews Richard Nile's The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination

• Issue 9: February - April 1998
  Dean Kiley Un-Queer Anti-Theory

• English Literature



• Issue 34: January-February 2005
  Paul Sheehan reviews Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry And Modernist Literature by Kylie Valentine.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

• Issue 26: June - August 2002
  L.E. Semler reviews The Touch of the Real: Essays in Early Modern Culture, in Honour of Stephen Greenblatt, edited by Philippa Kelly

• Russian Literature
  

  • Issue 33: August-October 2004
    Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

  • Issue 6: June - July 1997
    Robert Dessaix writes about teaching Russian (and Russian Literature) in Australia in Russia: the End

National & Global Identities

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Australia and the New Geographies of Climate Change by Emily Potter and Paul Starr.

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Keys to the South by Kevin Murray.

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Extracts from Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science by Raewyn Connell

• Issue 43: December 2007
  In her essay 'Truth, writing and national belonging in Romulus, My Father' Brigitta Olubas considers the 'special propensity' of memoir to open up questions of self and time 'within the sweep of experience of the nation'.

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “White Historicide and the Returns of the Souths of the South” by Joseph Pugliese

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Thieves and Fascists: the Politics of Abjection in Radiohead's Hail to the Thief (The Gloaming)" by Kate Livett

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Post-Colonial Boredom: The Myth Of Australian Sameness" by John Milfull

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "UnAustralia: Strangeness and Value" by John Frow

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  David Carter's Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies is reviewed by Georgine Clarsen

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Megan Alessandrini assesses the Report's findings on Australians attitudes to voluntary organizations and political participation, and to the so-called crisis of trust

• Issue 38: April 2006
  John Frow looks at two of the Report's findings: attitudes to economic reform and to globalization

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Paul James focuses on issues of globalization, national identity, immigration and lifestyle consumption

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Catharine Lumby considers the data presented on attitudes to mass media and media power in Australia

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Elspeth Probyn looks at the attitudes around the Australian family, and at questions of trust in Australia

• Issue 38: April 2006
  "Post-Gay in the USA", a review essay by Robert Reynolds that looks at The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality) by Bert Archer; Homocons: The Rise of the Gay Right by Richard Goldstein, and Steven Seidman's Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life.

• Issue 37: December 2005
  Jean Gelman Taylor reviews Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam by Greg Barton; and Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present, edited by Mary S. Zurbuchen.

• Issue 37: December 2005
  'Notes from Underground: of Moles, Metros and Messiahs' by John Milfull

• Issue 34 January-February 2005
  Ian Henderson considers ?The Ethics Of Fellowship in Two Antipodean War Films: Gallipoli (1981) And The Lord Of The Rings (2001-2003)? and discovers unexpected connections in the representation of masculine relationships.

• Issue 34: January- February 2005
  In ?The Riddle Of The Index: Subverting The Empire And Exploration? Simon Ryan reviews Subverting The Empire: Explorers And Exploration In Australian Fiction by Paul Genoni.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

• Issue 31-32: April 2004
  In "Regarding Islands" Daniel Bedggood reviews Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith (eds) Islands in History and Representation

• Issue 31-32: April 2004
  Ian Maclean reviews Nikos Papastergiadis (ed.), Complex Entanglements Art, Globalisation and Cultural Diifference,

• Issue 30: October 2003
  John Milfull reviews German Anzacs and the First World War by John F. Williams

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  Ian Buchanan 'August 26, 2001: Two or Three Things Australians Don’t Seem to Want to Know About "Asylum Seekers" …'

• Issue 28: January - March 2003
  Amir Ahmadi reviews Michael Dummet's On Immigration and Refugees and
  'Race' Panic and the Memory of Migration, edited by Meaghan Morris and
  Brett de Bary.

• Issue 27: September – December 2002
  A Line in the Sea by Suvendrini Perera
  Kam Louie's Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China reviewd by Yao Souchou

• Issue 25: March 2002
  In "Fantasy Families and Australian Goodness" Robert Aldrich reviews Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy by Jennifer Rutherford, and From Diggers to Drag Queens: Configurations of Australian National Identity, by Fiona Nicoll

• Issue 20: December 2000 - February 2001
  Tourism, Postmodernism and Australia by Jim Davidson and Peter Spearritt;
  and an extract from The Colonial Earth by Tim Bonyhady.

• Issue 23: September - November 2001
  Lisanne Gibson The Uses of Art: Constructing Australian Identities

Psychoanalysis

• Issue 41: February 2007
  Tamara Popowski reviews Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body by Elizabeth Wilson

• Issue 41: February 2007
  “The Demise of Sadness: Melancholia, Depression and Narcissism in Late Modernity” by Robert Reynolds

• Issue 34: January-February 2005
  Paul Sheehan reviews Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry And Modernist Literature by Kylie Valentine.

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Kate Livett's 'Fetish Fantasies: A review of Amanda Fernbach's Fantasies of Fetishism'

• Issue 12: December 1998 - March 1999
  In Post-dated Elizabeth Wilson reviews Freud 2000, edited by Anthony Elliot

• Issue 4: December 1996 - February 1997
  An extract from David Tacey's Remaking Men: Jungian Thought and the Post-Patriarchal Psyche

Post/Colonial Cultures

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Keys to the South by Kevin Murray.

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Cultural Studies' Networking Strategies in the South by Stephen Muecke.

• Issue 44: March 2008
  The South in Southern Theory: Antipodean Reflections on the Pacific by Margaret Jolly.

• Issue 44: March 2008
  Extracts from Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science by Raewyn Connell

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Of Jogis and mediators, musicologists and administrators: an elaborated field note" by John Napier

• Issue 33 August-October 2004
  Alan Morris' Essay “Is This Racism? Representations Of South Africa in the Sydney Morning Herald since the Inauguration Of Thabo Mbeki As President”

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Angela Rockel reviews Paul Carter's Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia, in 'Comforting Lot's wife'

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Arthur Glass reviews Postcolonial Liberalism by Duncan Ivison

• Issue 20: December 2000 - February 2001
  An extract from The Colonial Earth by Tim Bonyhady.

• Issue 19: September - November 2000
  Paradox on the Queensland Frontier: Platypus, lungfish and other vagaries of nineteenth-century science by Libby Robin

• Issue 19: September - November 2000
  Ken Gelder reviews Peter Read's latest book in The Imaginary Eco-(Pre) Historian in Peter Read's Belonging as a Postcolonial 'Symptom'.

• Issue 16: December 1999 - February 2000
  Kate Lilley reviews Srinivas Aravamudan's Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804

• Issue 13: April - June 1999
  John Frow's In the Penal Colony is an examination of the relationship between the nation state and cultural memory
  

• Issue 13: April - June 1999
  In Post-Apartheid Violence and the Institution of Literature Brendon Nicholls offers a critique of literature studies in a liberated South Africa.

Race & Ethnicities

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “Who is the white subject? reading, writing, whiteness” by Alison Ravenscroft

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “White Historicide and the Returns of the Souths of the South” by Joseph Pugliese

• Issue 42: August 2007
  “Kin-fused Reconciliation: Bringing them Home, Bringing Us Home” by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "Of Jogis and mediators, musicologists and administrators: an elaborated field note" by John Napier

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "When they write what we read: Unsettling Indigenous Australian life-writing" by Michelle Grossman

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Antipodean Automobility and Crash: Treachery, trespass, and the transformation of the open road" by Catherine Simpson

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Beyond Complicity: Questions and issues for white women in Aboriginal history" by Victoria Haskins

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  Carole Ferrier interrogates the current privileged presence of 'family' in Australian political discourse, tracing its contestation through 100 years of feminist debate and representation, and compelled to ask again: 'So, What is to be Done About the Family?'

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Monique Rooney's essay "Networking In Fortress Los Angeles: Sexuality, Race And The Postmodern Metropolis In The L Word" reads the televisual lesbian as personifying the postmodern landscape she inhabits

• Issue 37: December 2005
  'The No Road Film: Trackers, Followers and Fanatics' by Fiona Probyn

• Issue 35: June 2005
  In 'Genocide and Colonialism, III': Lorenzo Veracini reviews Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History edited by A. Dirk Moses.

• Issue 34: January - February 2005
  Split Lives: Croatian-Australian Stories, edited by Val Colic-Peisker, is reviewed by Christine Choo.

• Issue 34: January - February 2005
  Anette Bremer reviews The Cruise Of The Janet Nichol Among The South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson edited by Roslyn Jolly.

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Graeme Davison’s Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities

• Issue 33: August-October 2004
  Tim Rowse compares Indigenous Autobiography in Australia and the United States.

• Issue 33 August-October 2004
  Alan Morris' Essay “Is This Racism? Representations Of South Africa in the Sydney Morning Herald since the Inauguration Of Thabo Mbeki As President”

• Issue 31-32: April 2004
  Ian Maclean reviews Nikos Papastergiadis (ed.), Complex Entanglements Art, Globalisation and Cultural Diifference,

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Lorenzo Veracini discusses a conference on 'Genocide and Colonialism' and its implications for Australian debates.

• Issue 28: January - March 2003
  Mitchell Rolls offers an 'unmitigated polemic' on "Why I Don't Want to be an "Ethical" Researcher"
  Frances Peters Little: The Impossibility Of Pleasing Everybody: A Legitimate Role For White Filmmakers Making Black Films

• Issue 27: September – December 2002
  "Genocide and Colonialism" In conversation with Lorenzo Veracini, Ann Curthoys and John Docker discuss some of the issues at stake for Australian Aboriginal history in current international debates about the definitions of genocide.
  "Documentary Affect: Filming Rubbish" by Gay Hawkins
  Which Rabbit-Proof Fence? Empathy, Assimilation, Hollywood
  by Tony Hughes D'aeth

• Issue 26: June – August 2002
  Colin Groves analyses how the social sciences are currently deployed in racist arguments around indigenous sovereignty and land rights;
  and Fiona Probyn questions the ways in which indigenous cultural practices are harnessed for a debate around academic disciplinarity in Lynne Hume's Ancestral Power: The Dreaming, Consciousness and Aboriginal Australia.

• Issue 24: December 2001 - February 2002
  Judith Berman's Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities, 1945-2000 is reviewed by Freda Freiberg

• Issue 22: June - August 2001
  Adib Khan's Following Janus' Footsteps

• Issue 13: April - June 1999
  In Post-Apartheid Violence and the Institution of Literature Brendon Nicholls offers a critique of literature studies in a liberated South Africa

• Issue 12: December 1998 - March 1999
  Brian Castro Dangerous Dancing: Autobiography and Disinheritance

• Issue 5: March - May 1997
  Lucy Frost Fear of Passing takes a controversial position on the revelations about the racial background of writer Mudrooroo

• Issue 1: April - June 1996
  Henry Reynolds's After Mabo, What About Aboriginal Sovereignty?
  The Past as Future: Aborigines, Australia and the (dis)course of History by Bain Attwood
  Rosemary Hunter's Aboriginal Histories, Australian Histories, and the Law
  The Forced Repatriation of Archaeological Materials by Tim Murray and Jim Allen

• See also the complete Indigenous Issues section of this archive

Sexualities

• Issue 41: February 2007
  "'No one but I will know': Hal Porter's Honesty" by Noel Rowe

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "When they write what we read: Unsettling Indigenous Australian life-writing" by Michelle Grossman

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Antipodean Automobility and Crash: Treachery, trespass, and the transformation of the open road" by Catherine Simpson

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  "Beyond Complicity: Questions and issues for white women in Aboriginal history" by Victoria Haskins

• Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
  Carole Ferrier interrogates the current privileged presence of 'family' in Australian political discourse, tracing its contestation through 100 years of feminist debate and representation, and compelled to ask again: 'So, What is to be Done About the Family?'

• Issue 38: April 2006
  In "Making Queer for the United States of Empire" Paul Allatson identifies the ways 'queer' is deployed to strengthen the connection between compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory consumerism

• Issue 38: April 2006
  In his essay "Intrusion, or Where to from Queer?" Murray Pratt takes a moment to ponder whether a queer world would be more like the gay world or the straight world...

• Issue 38: April 2006
  Monique Rooney's essay "Networking In Fortress Los Angeles: Sexuality, Race And The Postmodern Metropolis In The L Word" reads the televisual lesbian as personifying the postmodern landscape she inhabits

• Issue 38: April 2006
  "Post-Gay in the USA", a review essay by Robert Reynolds that looks at The End of Gay (and the death of heterosexuality) by Bert Archer; Homocons: The Rise of the Gay Right by Richard Goldstein, and Steven Seidman's Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life.

• Issue 34 January-February 2005
  Ian Henderson considers ?The Ethics Of Fellowship in Two Antipodean War Films: Gallipoli (1981) And The Lord Of The Rings (2001-2003)? and discovers unexpected connections in the representation of masculine relationships.

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Kane Race's 'The Death of the Dance Party'

• Issue 30: October 2003
  Kate Livett's 'Fetish Fantasies: A review of Amanda Fernbach's Fantasies of Fetishism'

• Issue 29: May-June 2003
  David McInnes 'Camp Excess and Queer Histories of Oz'

• Issue 27: September – December 2002
  Kam Louie's Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China reviewed by Yao Souchou

• Issue 23: September - November 2001
  Dennis Altman Sex and Political Economy;

• Guy Davidson Liberation, Commodity Culture and Community in "the Golden Age of Promiscuity"

• and Monique Rooney's Grave endings: the representation of passing deploys Kimberley Pearce's film Boy's Don't Cry to consider gender/race passing narratives in American literature and film.

• Issue 21: March 2001 - May 2001 Jennifer Livett's Odd Couples and Double Acts, or Strange but Not Always Queer: some male pairs and the modern/postmodern subject

• Barbara Baird reviews Living Out Loud: A History of Gay and Lesbian Activism by Graham Willett

• Monique Rooney responds to Jennifer Livett's "Odd Couples and Double Acts, or Strange but Not Always Queer: some male pairs and the modern/postmodern subject"

• Issue 9: February - April 1998
  Dean Kiley Un-Queer Anti-Theory

• Issue 2: July - August 1996
  Dennis Altman On Global Queering

• Issue 1: April - June 1996
  Peter Jackson A Persistence of Gender: From Ancient Indian Pandakas to Modern Thai Gay-quings

Society & the Public Sphere

Issue 44: March 2008
Anne Maxwell reviews Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand edited by Laurence Simmons, and Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual, edited by Ned Curthoys and Debjani Ganguly.

Issue 41: February 2007
"Post-Colonial Boredom: The Myth Of Australian Sameness" by John Milfull

Issue 41: February 2007
“UnAustralia: Strangeness and Value” by John Frow

Issue 38: April 2006
Megan Alessandrini assesses the Report's findings on Australians attitudes to voluntary organizations and political participation, and to the so-called crisis of trust

Issue 38: April 2006
John Frow looks at two of the Report's findings: attitudes to economic reform and to globalization

Issue 38: April 2006
Paul James focuses on issues of globalization, national identity, immigration and lifestyle consumption

Issue 38: April 2006
Catharine Lumby considers the data presented on attitudes to mass media and media power in Australia

Issue 38: April 2006
Elspeth Probyn looks at the attitudes around the Australian family, and at questions of trust in Australia

Issue 31-32: April 2004
Gay Hawkins ponders the borders of our responses to personal and community waste in her analysis of "Shit in Public"

Issue 30: October 2003
Arthur Glass reviews Postcolonial Liberalism by Duncan Ivison

Issue 29: May-June 2003
Murray Goot 'Public Opinion and the Democratic Deficit: Australia and the War Against Iraq'

Issue 24: December 2001 - February 2002
David Carter Public Intellectuals, Book Culture and Civil Society
McKenzie Wark responds to David Carter's essay Public Intellectuals, Book Culture and Civil Society

Issue 21: March 2001 - May 2001
Future Directions for Rhetoric - Invention and Ethos in Public Critique by Ned Curthoys

Issue 18: June - August 2000
Ivor Indyk The Critic and the Public Culture: for example, Walter Benjamin

Virtual Libraries & the Humanities

Issue 7: August - October 1997
In The Virtual Library and the Humanities: a report Graeme Johanson, Don Schauder, and Edward Lim report on the impact of the WWW upon humanities scholars and researchers. The report is accompanied by a comprehensive list of related sites.

Writing

Issue 43: December 2007
John Milfull examines writing from below in 'Short Stories? Brecht, Adorno, Grass, and the Child's Eye View'

Issue 43: December 2007
In her essay 'Truth, writing and national belonging in Romulus, My Father' Brigitta Olubas considers the 'special propensity' of memoir to open up questions of self and time 'within the sweep of experience of the nation'.

Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
"What the cassowary does not need to know" by Stephen Muecke

Issue 39 - 40: September 2006
"Whatever Becomes Itself" and "Trio: The Law of the Minimum, The Corporation and the Parrot, The Question of Obi Obi Creek" by MTC Cronin

Issue 39 - 40 September
In " Negotiating the Creative and the Critical" Peta Mitchell reviews Paul Dawson's Creative Writing and the New Humanities

Issue 36: July 2005
In “Reading the Other” Grant Hamilton reviews Derek Attridge's study of J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event.

Issue 28: January - March 2003
Melissa Hardie's Hewettiana presents a poetic tribute to Dorothy Hewett in a catalogue of characteristics.

Issue 19: September - November 2000
Cyberspace and Canberra Crime Fiction by Dorothy Johnston

Issue 17: March - May 2000
Dorothy Porter discusses her venture into writing for young adults.

Issue 16: December 1999 - February 2000
In