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Essay: Artist, puppeteer, and writer Jeff Stewart looks at the ringing of a bicycle bell in a revolutionary light. Read More
Travel writing: Sue Currie re-lives a moment of rickshaw madness. Read More
Ever, Sebastian: Bas has a few thoughts for the Government and her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Read More
Ever, Sebastian: Bas offers his thoughts on the referendum on the banning of the Communist Party in 1950. Read More
Essay: Given the interest in the anniversary of the referendum to decide the future of the Communist Party, John Harms recalls the time and its impact on his parents’ political socialisation. http://web.overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-188/feature-john-harms/
Climate Change: A Planet on the Backburner, by Andrew Glikson Read More
Ever, Sebastian: Bas contemplates the state of Manning Clark House as he looks out across the back lawn and into the sands of time and the oleanders. Read More
Freelance writer Irma Gold offered her review of the recent Manning Clark House Weekend of Ideas in Overland. http://web.overland.org.au/2010/03/26/where-have-all-the-young-things-gone/
ANZAC Matters
The significance of all things ANZAC is rather topical at the moment, with What’s Wrong With ANZAC? stirring up the debate. ABC TV’s QandA made for interesting watching if you could handle the fact that five speakers meant host Tony Jones was juggling time, as well as Germaine Greer and Peter Cosgrove et al.
An extract from the book What’s Wrong With ANZAC? (copies available at Paperchain Manuka) can be found at
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/letting-go-of-anzac-20100402-rif5.html
Geoff Blainey’s review in The Australian (ALR) can be found at
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/we-werent-that-dumb/story-e6frg8nf-1225848127735
and you might be interested in an essay by Adelaide historian Bernard Whimpress
http://www.history.sa.gov.au/chu/programs/history_conference/BernardWhimpressPaper.pdf
while Bas has his say in the latest edition of Ever, Sebastian. Read More.
And this morning I arrived at MCH to find on my desk a photocopied article from our Kiwi friend in the office, JQC: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10639980
ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live edition on 31 March featured a discussion of Robin Boyd’s architecture. Manning Clark House received some attention. The link for the audio download is at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/index/audio.htm
POEM: Dennis Haskell, Winthrop Professor of English & Cultural Studies at the University of Wester Australia makes fine use of Australian language in his poem, “Memories of Youth” or “How I Racked through Modernism and Rediscovered a Dinkum Lingo, first published in Abracadabra (Fremantle Press, 1994) Read More
The Manning Clark Lecture delivered by Chris Masters at the National Library of Australia, March 4, 2010. READ MORE
FEATURE: In this engaging essay Tessa Wooldridge takes a snippet from Manning Clark’s fourth volume and checks out his facts, before coming to a conclusion about story-telling. READ MORE
THE OFFICIAL MANNING CLARK HOUSE REGISTER OF AUSTRALIAN WORDS AND PHRASES AND THINGS YOUR GRANDPARENTS USED TO SAY…READ MORE
Feature: John Harms highlights some good old Australian expressions in this piece which was first published in the Canberra Times READ MORE
Ever Sebastian: Bas’s latest letter to the world is a review of John Moses’s latest book Reluctant Revolutionary: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Collision with Prusso-German History. John Moses will speak about the book at Manning Clark House on May 20.
Poetry: Byron Bay Market to Nimbin by Damian Balassone. Damian’s poems have been published in Arena Magazine, Eureka Street, Australian Rationalist, The Mozzie, Green Left Weekly, Australian Sea Heritage, The Roar and Deadly Vibe.
Art: Visiting scholar and freelance writer Jacqui Durrant on the Cook Islands: http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/3249/old-gods-new-lives-exhibiting-traditional-cook-isl/
Feature: When Anne Fairbairn draws on what she calls her ‘Scottish determination’ and sets her mind to something, look out. Here she waves her finger at the Australian Electoral Commissioners. And all in the interest of preserving the name of her grandfather George Reid. Find out how persuasive she can be. READ MORE
Comment: Sebastian Clark presents his view of the world in his column Ever, Sebastian READ MORE
Short Story: ‘The Letter’ by Anne Myers. Anne is a writer living in the Macedon Ranges. On her non-writing days she works as an intensive care and palliative care nurse. She has had stories published in Southerly, The Death Mook and the upcoming winter Meanjin.
e-newsletter – Feb 18: Bas advocates new communications policy. READ MORE
BOOK: Waratah Rosemarie Gillespie writes about her new book, Running With Rebels, launched recently at Manning Clark House. READ MORE