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Volume 3 Number 1 February 1993 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology CoNTENTS 4 31 COMMENT QUIXOTE 6 33 LETTERS OBITUARY James Griffin pays tribute to Monsignor 7 John Francis Kelly. REPORTS Margaret Simons on the air-traffic fiasco; 34 Paul Cleary on the vanishing middle class BOOKS (p22) . Brian Toohey on two biographies of John Maynard Keynes; Michael McGirr on Syd 9 ney's best-known bohemians and best CAPITAL LETTER known outlaw (p36); Rod Beecham on the Cain and Kirner govennents (p37); and Race 10 Mathews on the co-operatives of Mon COUNTERPOINT dragon in Spain (p40). Paul Chadwick begins a news column on the media. 39 THE INDEX 12 Reviews of Russel Ward's Concise History HELLO TO BERLIN of Australia; Patrick O'Farrell's The hish in The new Germany has new divisions, Australia (revised edition ), and David writes Damien Simonis. Willey's God's Politician. 15 42 SPORTING LIFE FLASH IN THE PAN Peter Pierce risks a franc in France. Reviews of the films Bram Stoker's Dra c ula; Lovers; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid; A 16 Few Good Men and Antonia and fane. HOW NOT TO FUND RESEARCH Cover drawing and drawings pp24-30 by Australia's universities are not getting value 44 Waldemar Buczynski; for money, argues Frank Jackson. SBS PROGRAM GUIDE Photo p5 by Bill Thomas; Photo pl 3 by Damien Simonis; Cartoon p(i by Michael Daly; 19 46 Cartoon p43 by Dean Moore; THE REGION VOICEBOX Graphics pp10, 15,46 by Tim Metherall; David Glanz on China, Vietnam and a Mike Ticher finds the Old World at the flick Graphic p 19 by john van Loon; of a switch. Graphic p23 by Paul Fyfe. wrangle over oil; Rowan Callick on mining in the Pacific (p20). Eureka Street magazine 47 )csu it Publications, 24 SPECIFIC LEVITY PO Box 553, Richmond, VIC 3 121. THREE YEARS HARD Tcl l03) 427 73 1 I Andrew Hamilton chronicles the ordeal of Fax (03)421l 4450 Cambodian refugees in Australia. 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Long may the practice continue! PO Box 553, Ri chmond VIC 3 12 1. And thank you all. • 4 EUREKA STREET • F EBRUARY 1993 CoMMENT Backtracking A USHAUAN H> GHWAYS DON'T"' mo into the up, filled up. Don't have to get out of their cars. This is desert but they have a way of prompting reflection. a real centre.' Maybe because their sheer length puts time into your On a previous trip I miscalculated and had to pull hands. They are also into one of the vast much profaned. I have complexes that flank the never subscribed to the .. freeway exits to bypassed view of the Hume as a towns. I got into the tedious snake. For me it truck bay by mistake and is the route home. It is then had to circle the also a great instructor of whole place to find the city eyes, subtle in its unleaded petrol. Top seasonal registrations. price. Inside the sweets In early summer, and groceries were mar Paterson's Curse was shalled. I took from the doing a late surge. In one red section and spoiled High Country paddock, the display. The girl north of Gundagai, two glanced at me but some white horses swam, pur thing more pressing ple to their manes. The caught her eye. 'That Country Hour was bastard! That bastard's unlyrical but explained nicking off without how this crop/curse is paying! ' She was outside managed and why its in a flash. I left my money reputation is so mixed. on the counter. Most of the old The grass is green towns are bypassed now. and fence-high. Ominous If you want Ned you have in summer. to detour into Glenrow Rudolf Nureyev has an. In Canberra the just died. And Dizzy National Gallery has Gillespie. remembered Sidney Coming into Mel Nolan by hanging a rare bourne, in the aftermath portrait of Ned Kelly just Memorial to Victorian Country Fire Authority of a thunderstorm, we inside the front door. He volunteers who died on Ash Wednesday, 1983 drive through the hill is not wearing his helmet, towns north-east of the but a circle of rough brown paint frames his face like a city. We get to Panton Hill in wet dusk and notice a target. memorial park in the middle of town. I remember that Benalla, too, is off the beaten track. On a gleaming it is 10 years since the boys of the district went out morning we double back into town to revisit the rose together to fight the Ash Wednesday fires.

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