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Queensland's Flying High Thinking About Justice for the Next Century­ What Shape Will We Be In? See P.29 Vol. 1 No. 9 November 1991 $4.00 Queensland's flying high Thinking about justice for the next century­ what shape will we be in? See p.29. Volume 1 Number 9 !ET November 199 1 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology CoNTENTS 4 23 COMMENT QUIXOTE 6 24 LETTERS THE PEOPLE NOBODY WANTS Damien Simonis reports on the Harkis, 7 France's unwanted legacy of the Algerian THE WITHERING OF THE HEATH war of independence. Peter Pierce takes the long view at Caulfield racecourse . 27 OBITUARY 8 Avery Dulles SJ pays tribute to French WORLD REPORT theologian Henri de Lubac SJ . Damien Simonis (p .S) and Liz Jackson (p.9) talk to Czechs and Russians about life after 28 the revolution. WHEN IS A RUIN REALLY A RUIN1 Mark Coleridge takes issue with Gerard 10 Windsor. DEMOCRACY ON THE BOIL Queensland may have something to teach 29 the southern states, concludes Margaret PAST IMPERFECT, Simons. FUTURE INDEFINITE Social justice for the next century. 15 ARCHIMEDES 36 BOOKS AND ARTS 16 Jack Waterford reviews Fred Hollow's CAPITAL LETTER autobiography; M.J. Crennan on Allister Sparks' and Rian Malan's views of South Cover design by John va n Loon; 17 Africa (p.39); Bmce Williams looks at the cartoons pp.6 and 45 THE EMPERORS WITHOUT CLOTHES work of Chamber Made Opera (p.42) . by Dean Moore; China's people are not fooled by their photOgraphs pp.5, 31, 33 and 35 by Andrew Stark. leaders, argues Paul Rule. 38 SPIRIT 19 Poem by Patrick O'Donoghue. Eureka Street magazine CUTTING ROOM Jesuit Publications 44 PO Box 553 20 Richmond VTC 3 12 1 FLASH IN THE PAN Tel (03) 427 73 11 THE STONES ARE LAUGHING Reviews of the films The Field, Ba ck ­ Fa x (03) 428 4450 Israeli peace activist Amos Oz tells Michael draft, Life is Sweet and Thelma and McGirr that the desert is the great equaliser. Louise. EUREKA StREEt COMMENT Publisher Michael Kelly SJ Editor Morag Fraser Production Editor Political hope Ray Cassin Design Consultant John van Loon Production Assistant Paul Fyfe SJ A T THE MELBOURNE WRITERS' FESTIVAL in September, a yow1g man in the front row stood up at the end of one session and, Contributing Editors waving his arms with some passion, challenged the speaker: Perth: Janette Gray RSM 'You argue impressively, but somehow you leave m e with no Adelaide: Frances Browne IBVM hope.' The panel had been discussing the issue 'Who's Left? ', Sydney: Edmund Campion, Gerard Windsor from their various political perspectives. The young man was Brisbane: Ian Howells SJ questioning the last speaker, Robert Manne, editor of Quadrant, Darwin: Margaret Palmer who had indeed argued in1pressively, whether or not you agreed with his analysis of the necessary courses of social and politi­ European correspondent: Damien Simonis cal action in a postcommunist world. His questioner was US correspondent: Michael Harter SJ insistent: 'I understand what you are saying but what hope do you leave me with?' Manne remarked that it was not his Editorial Board business to bring him hope. 'I'm here to make you think/ he Peter L'Estrange SJ (chair), declared. Margaret Coady, Margaret Coffey, The young man came back at him with his demand Madeline Duckett RSM, Tom Duggan, strengthened. Yes he understood that it was crucial to think Trevor Hales, David Hawke FSC, clearly about political issues, but to sustain the effort he needed Christine Martin, Kevin McDonald, also to have hope. He needed to believe that the hard work of Joan Nowotny IBVM , Lyn Nossal, thinking and making judgements and choices would somehow Ruth Pendavingh, be worth the effort. Manne wouldn't play the prophet for him. Peter Steele SJ, Bill Uren SJ Instea d, he made a virtue of restraint: he wasn't there to preach. Business Manager: Louise Metres But I don't think the young man was a follower, a disciple Acco unts Manager: Bernadette Bacash looking for a demagogue. He was poised on the line that sepa­ rates commitment from apathy and cynicism. And he wanted Patrons to be given some sense that the difficult task of shaping a just Eureka Street gratefully acknowledges the society was not going to be a futile enterprise. support of C. L. Adami; the trustees of the estate After all the afternoon's talk of political theory-some of of Miss M. Condon; D.M. Cullity; it convincing, some of it banal and self-regarding, as is the way F.G. Gargan; W.P. Gurry;). F. O'Brien; at writers' gatherings-what lingered in the stuffy, packed au­ A.F. Molyneux; V.J. Peters; ditorium was not a sense of the vitality of political discourse Anon.; the Roch e famil y; Anon .; but the vehemence of his need: 'Give me hope.' and Sir Donald and Lady Trescowthick. We art> not in dire physical straits in Australia. Even in a recession no one need fear cold or famine. In Moscow and in Eurel<a Street magazi ne, ISSN I 036- 1758, Washington people will freeze and starve this winter. We will Australia Post registered publication VAR 91-0756, not. But it was not physical hardship or even economic down­ is publi shed eleven times a year turn that the young man was responding to. He was talking by Eureka Street Magazine Pty Ltd, about the need for assurance that there is at least the possibility 300 Victoria Street, Richmond, Victoria 3121. Responsibility for editorial content is accepted by of integrity in Australian public life. And he wanted some spur Michael Kell y, 300 Victoria Street, Richmond. to action: not to get him up on the barricades, but to persuade Printed by Doran Printing, him that politics in Australia isn't a rigged game, or, if it is, 4 Commercial Road, Highett, VIC 3 190. then that there is at least some possibility of cleaning it up, of © Jesuit Publica tions 1991 owning it and making it work for the benefit of all. Political scepticism is strong in Australia and always has The ed itor welcomes letters and unsolicited manu­ been. Its negative face is cynicism, its positive face a hardy scripts, including poetry and fiction. Manuscripts wil l disinclination to be conned or whipped into the kinds of en­ be returned only if accompanied by a stamped, self­ thusiasm that slide over into totalitarian allegiance. But addressed envelope. Requests for permission to reprint sometimes, in our suspicious caution, we sell ourselves short. material fro m the magaz in e should be addressed in We treat our politics as a gam e. Even the Fairfax press has called writing to: The editor, Eureka Street magazin e, it a game-'the greatest game of all'-in an advertisment fea­ PO Box 553, Richmond, VIC 3121. turing one of its senior political writers. That is more a com- 4 EUREKA STREET • NOVEMBER 199 1 menton the dangerously insular nature of the Canberra of passive apprehension where they were 'as water in press gallery than a summary of our national attitude, the cupped hands' of the powers that be. but the two do sometimes ride in tandem. So, some­ Emerald cool we may be times, it is salutary to listen to a different voice. As water in cupped hands Buried on page 9 or 10 of most of the national dai­ But oh that we might be lies came the news that Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi had As splinters of glass won the Nobel Peace Prize. Aung San Suu Kyi is the In cupped hands. legitimately elected leader of 'The quintessential revo- Burma. She remains in politi­ Photo: Andrew Stark lution is that of the spirit, born cal detention. Her political of an intellectual conviction of language comes from a rhetori­ a need to change in those cally more formal and ornate mental attitudes and values culture. But perhaps the young that shape the course of a na­ man at the Writers' Festival tion's development. A revolu­ could translate. What follows is tion that aims merely at from one of her essays, written changing official policies and in honour of her father, Aung institutions with a view to an San, the architect of modern improvement in material con­ Burma, who was assassinated ditions has little chance of in 1947 when she was genuine success. Without a /fl two years old. revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the in­ r UBLIC DISSATISFACTION with iquities of the old order would economic hardship has been continue to be operative. seen as the chief cause of the 'Saints, it has been said, are movement for democracy in the sinners who go on trying. Burma, sparked off by the stu­ So free men are the oppressed dent demonstrations of 1988. It who go on trying and who, in is true that years of incoherent the process, make themselves policies, inept official m eas­ fit to bear the responsibilities ures, burgeoning inflation and and to uphold the disciplines falling real incomes had turned which will maintain a free so­ the country into an economic ciety. A people who will build shambles. a nation in which strong, dem­ 'But it was more than the ocratic institutions are firmly difficulties of eking out a bare­ established as a guarantee ly acceptable standard of living against state-induced power that had eroded the patience of must first liberate their minds a traditionally good-natured, from apathy and fear. quiescent people-it was also 'Nehru, who considered the humiliation of a way of life the instillation of courage into disfigured by corruption and the people of India as one of fear.
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