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$5.95 Shane Malone Round Fourteen, Third Quarter The concentration has gone by now; the Magpies ten goals down, And only the seagulls seem to know how to pick up the crumbs. It's unpleasurable, The manic speed of these business men in striped guernseys, The scoreboard like Super Mario Bros, even umpires with numbers on their backs. It's all so different, makes me want to take a good hard look at myself. The gaze moves to the somnolent 'teeth of goal', and that man. No slave to fashion, he wears the regulation white hat of the fifties, The white dustcoat of the company foreman or Nobel-winning scientist. Making sure the posts are not shifted behind the play He keeps jotting into the little black book with efficient aplomb All the barbaric point-scoring going on at the other end. Could he be the centre of meaning in a world gone made with amalgamations? The one resolute unchanging fixture stands there between the goalposts, Ready to lean his head back during the thrilling trajectory, pause In a way to make Stanislavsky proud, then lift the two fingers. In a better world Collingwood revives in the final quarter, the spiral torpedo On the bell sealing it, and you wouldn't want to be dead for quids. Philip Harvey Volume 6 Number 3 EURI:-KA SJRI:-Er Aprill996 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology 26 ENCOUNTERS WITH RELIGIOUS CoNTENTS ITALY: FLORENCE 'Party President Gerard Windsor revisits the Reformation Barry Jon es stepped to 2 in a Medici town. the podium. It took POETRY IN SEASON 'Round Fourteen, Third Quarter', 32 ten minutes to list his by Philip Harvey. BOOKS credentials, among Peter Steele essays Helen Garner's Tru e them the fact that 4 Stories and Peter Coleman's selection of he has an extinct COMMENT 'incorrect essays', Double Tal<e; marsupial named Max Teichmann reviews Thea Rich­ 7 mond's Konin: A Quest and after him. CAPITAL LETTER Mark Verstandig's I Rest My Case (p34); In retrospect, this detail Peter Steele cruises through The Oxford may have held prophetic 8 Books of almost everything (p37). significance ... ' LETTERS 40 -Shane Maloney gumshoeing 10 POETRY through the federal electorate FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE Alan Wearne reviews Dorothy Hewett's of Batman, on the trail of Frank Brennan reports on race, law Collected Poems and Robert Gray's New Martin Ferguson. and the decay of the American Way. and Selected Poems. See 'Stand by your man', pl6. David Braddon-Mitchell, in New Zealand, watches Oz politics more 42 in sorrow than anger (p20). OPERA Rasey Golds swans around New York's Andrew Riemer on Leos Janacek and Waldorf with Arafat, Clinton and The Mal<ropulos Secret. Tomiichi Miyazawa (p30). 46 Cover: The Royal Easter Show, 13 SPARKY Sydney. ARCHIMEDES Photograph by Andrew Stark. 47 Graphics pp6, 10, 11 , 12, 15, 21, 24, 15 FLASH IN THE PAN 26-27,30, 31, 33, 38, 39 by OPPOSITION AND THE ALP Reviews of the films Casino, Antonia's Siobhan Jackson. Brian Toohey on the economics; Line, 12 Monkeys, Nixon, Cosi, Cartoons p8 by Peter Fraser. Moira Rayner on the social policy; fumanji, and Mr Holland's Opus. Cartoon p23 by Dean Moore. Photograph p25 by Andrew Stark. Ross McMullin on the history. Cartoon p48 by John Ditchburn. 50 16 WATCHING BRIEF Eureka Street magazine STAND BY YOUR MAN Jesuit Publications Shane Maloney tracks Martin Ferguson 51 PO Box 553 in Batman. SPECIFIC LEVITY Richmond VIC 3 12 1 Tel (03)9427 73 11 Fax (03)9428 4450 VOLUME 6 N UMBER 3 • EUREKA STREET 3 EURI:-KA STRI:-B COMMENT A magazine of public affairs, the arts MORAG FRASER and theology Publisher Michael Kelly SJ Easter 1996 Editor Morag Fraser Consulting editor A TTACH A om TO THe woRo 'EASTeR' 'nd you 'g'"" Michael McGirr SJ the shadows. So much swirls around the word. There is the death and rising, and the beginning of a Christian calendar. Assistant editor Then there are all the events, celebratory and catasprophic, Jon Greenaway that have been annexed to the word and to its moveable feast, Production assistants: and all concentrated in a moment when the seasons pivot and everything changes. Paul Fyfe SJ, Juliette Hughes, Chris Jenkins SJ, It is impossible not to think of Ireland at this time: eighty Siobhan Jackson, Dan Disney years since the Easter uprising, and still no confirmed peace. And Israel: when we went to press last month it was with Contributing editors uneasy hopes of a brief period, between the assassination of Adelaide: Greg O'Kelly SJ Yitzak Rabin and the Israeli elections, in which sane Brisbane: Ian Howells SJ negotiation could take place with the Palestinians. Within Perth: Dean Moore 24 hours the bombing had begun. Sydney: Edmund Campion, Andrew Riemer, Monthly magazines can anticipate some patterns of Gerard Windsor political and cultural behaviour, but by and large their func­ European correspondent: Damien Simonis tion has to be different from that of daily newspapers. Prime Ministers and Premiers notoriously do not consult maga­ Editorial board zine editors whan they set their election dates. So we have Peter L'Estrange SJ (chair), looked sideways this month, to see what can be gleaned from Margaret Coady, Margaret Coffey, experiences elsewhere. Valda M. Ward RSM, Trevor Hales, Frank Brennan, writing from the USA, looks at the fault Marie Joyce, Kevin McDonald, lines in American racial politics and law. The picture is not Jane Kelly TBVM, an encouraging one, but there are lessons in it, and, in Peter Steele sr, Bill Uren SJ Australia, still time to learn from them. Business manager: Sylvana Scannapiego David Braddon-Mitchell, in Auckland, looks at Australia Advertising representative: Ken Hea d through the prism of a New Zealand that has gone much Patrons further with radical free-market reforms than we have here. Emelza Street gra tefully acknowledges the Australia is usually too haughty to look across the Tasman support of Colin and Angela Carter; the for models of a preview of a possible social future. It's about trustees of the es tate of Miss M. Condon; time w e did. Denis Cullity AO; W.P. & M.W. Gurry; Geoff Hill and Janine Perrett; Back home, Shane Maloney has taken a different tack the Roche family . with the elections-that-we-had-to-have. Maloney is a crime fiction writer with an eye for the bizarre and the human Emel<a Street magazine, lSSN 1036-1758, ragbaggery of politics. He went deep into what the pundits Australia Post Print Post approved call a political heartland- the Victorian electorate of Bat­ pp34918l /003 14 man-to track the progress of Martin Ferguson, and found is published ten times a year out just how complex an organ the political heart can be. If by Eureka Street Magazin e Pry Ltd, the ALP wants some raw data for their post-loss soul search­ 300 Victoria Street, Richmond, Victoria 3 12 1 ing they need look no further. At the very least Maloney Tel: 03 942 7 73 11 Fax: 03 9428 4450. might h elp them to keep their political sense of humour. Responsibility for editorial content is <lccep ted by Good news: Rowan Callick, Melbourne Bureau Chief Michael Kelly, 300 Victoria Street, Ri chmond. of the Australian Finan cial Review, has been awarded the Printed by Doran Printing, Graham Perkin Award for 1995 and named Australian 46 lndustrial Drive, Bracside VIC 3 195. © jes uit Publications 1995. Journalist of the Year. In their citiation the judges Unsolicited manuscripts, including poetry and commented on 'an extraordinary, diverse range' of Callick's fiction, will be returned only if accompanied by a work, which included, 'Papua New Guinea's foreign ex­ stamped, self-addressed envelope. Reques ts for change crisis, the "amazing" cement scandal in Port Mores­ permission to reprint materi al from the magazin e by, economic and evironm ental problems in the Solomon should be addressed in writing to: Islands and perceptive pieces in the journal Eureka Street'. The editor, Eureka Street magazine, Congratulations to Rowan. And Happy Easter to all PO Box 553, Richmond VIC 3 121. Eurelza Street's readers. -Morag Fraser • 4 EUREKA STREET • APRIL 1996 CoMMENT 2 MI CHAEL M cGIRR The ritual setting 0 m THt EAsm ""oo, the jewish Museum of interest in the spiritual possibilities of theatre. On Australia, which has recently moved into new premis­ Easter Saturday, a cycle of medieval passion plays, es in Melbourne's St Kilda, i hosting a celebration of including 'Crucifixion' and 'Harrowing of Hell' are Jewish food. The exhibition is called 'The Moveable being presented in a kind of market place, where Feast'. It includes a fully operational Kosher kitchen traders and street performers will be part of the show. in which cooking demonstrations are taking place at On Saturday night, when many Christians participate intervals throughout the exhibition period. in the annual Easter vigil and use the symbols of fire The display also includes explanations of the and water to evoke the central mysteries of their faith, types of food associated with the church that adjoins Theatre­ pecial Jewish days and the scrip­ works will host a ritual in which a tural origins of dietary laws. The body will be shrouded in Easter egg Kosher kitchen is as stylish as wrappings and a rock will be bro­ anything in Vogue. It is al o, we ken open to release lollies and eggs. discover, rooted in an unfathoma­ Paul Monaghan from Theatreworks ble tradition. Scripture makes the says that they chose Easter as the point three times that 'you shall focus of a community theatre not cook the meat of a kid in the project because of the inherent milk of its mother.' So the kitchen power of the Easter stories and the has two sets of crockery and two significance of those stories to a sinks: one for meat dishes and the community where Christianity is other for milk dishes.
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