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Vol. 8 No. 8 October 1998 $5.95 ---- Peter Cochrane on Henry Reynolds' history iJoting matters- Francis Sullivan and Jack Waterford Dewi Anggraeni and Dan Madigan on Indonesia ana Islam 'Ihe flttle ©esert Case- Libby Robin on Australia's Iively his tory of en vi ron mental pol iti c:s John Heaps, Ivan Deveson, Gabrielle Lord, Edmund Campion, John Funder & Philip Kennedy on the pontificate of John cfaul H- cifter twenty years PUBLIC GOOD A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF PATRICK TROY Humanities Research Centre Australian National University December 11-12, 1998 This conference will explore questions of justice, citizenship, gender and inequality which inform Patrick Troy's contribu6ons to urban and social research. It will discuss the continuing salience of justice in public understandings of social change and social conflict. It will examine issues of access and distribution, regulation and compliance, and the proper place of the public and private sectors in contemporary Australian cities. It will explore the balance between commonality and difference in revising and reviving citizenship. Above all, it will consider the place of public intellectuals, advocacy and public service in the future of Australian universities. Speakers: Graeme Davison, Ruth Fincher, Kurt l veson, Margaret Levi, Stuart Macintyre, Peter Read, Jill Roe, Tim Rowse, Susan Smith, Frank Stilwell, Hugh Stretton, Sophie Watson. Enquiries and registration: Leena Messina, Programs Officer Human:ities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Phone (02) 6249 4357, Fax (02) 6248 0054 Email: [email protected] Aquinas Academy:: ...:.:·.:. SUMMER SCHOOC- Art Monthly 1999 "iUS TR .-1 /,/_-/ presents IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE Tim Bonyhady suggests the National Gallery of Australia be turned upside down Christine ~icholls on the art of Kathleen PetYarrc Bernard Smith on Patrick McCaughey's malapropos Patrick Hutchings on the sublime of the sparse vehicle Peter Timms on the sculpture of :\:eil Taylor; working towards the Australian Contemporary Art Fair January 18th - 21st, 1999 10am- 4pm Mon- Wed l$.1pm Thurs Brother Emelian Hall, Sl Joseph's College, Out now HUNTERS HILL .\-/ ..i0, ji·11111 good '""'f.:s/iops 1111d lll'll'SIIg<'IIIS. Secretaoy - (02) 9247 4651 Or plul//1' ()] (,]-/IJ .i'l% ji11· _)'IIIII' sul'.'<riptiou Have you visited our Website? hHp ://www.gigo.ne t.ou/edu/ AQuinos Volume 8 Number 8 EUREKA SJREEr October 1998 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology Henry Reynold~ concludes Fate of a Free People t,t it h a quote from fohn Locke whose advice to ch'>pos-;e-,sed peuples was 24 GETTING ACROSS THE MESSAGE to usc the law and, d ther CONTENTS Vincent Matthews on myths of media bias. failed, to try and try again lill jm·lice i.~ eventually 4 25 SUMMA THEOLOGIAE done, even i{ittake.s COMMENT generatioiH. The With Morag Fraser and Francis Sullivan. 28 cunning in Rej nolds THE LITTLE DESERT CASE 1s wdicalmtent backed Libby Robin uncovers Australia's 7 surprising history of eco-politics. by the leverage CAPITAL LETTER of the Enlightenment. 32 8 PetLT Cochrane on HUNTING NOT TRAVELLING LEADING WITH FEELING Peter Cochrane takes on Henry Reynolds' the work ot h1ston,m Graham Little on what we lack. Henry Rq nolds, p ~4. history. 9 41 LETTERS BOOKS: RE-JIGGING AUSTRALIA Frank Brennan, Margaret Simons, Australia 10 David Glanz and Spencer Zifcak review THE BEAM IN OUR EYE books on the reshaping of key Australian Dan Madigan on Western institutions, written by Brian Galligan, This proiect has been assisted by the Commonwea lth Government preconceptions of Islam. John Uhr, Julianne Schultz, David Peetz, through the Australia Co uncil, its Patrick Troy, Martin Painter and arts funding advisory body. 12 Ian Marsh . Cover design by Siobhan Jackson JOHN PAUL II AND ME Photograph of Pope John Paul II by Six Australians reflect on 20 years of 46 Andrew Stark; photograph of Henry Reynolds by Leon Mead, courtesy John Paul II's pontificate. KINKY LEAR Allen &. Unwin; reproduction Peter Craven is not amused by of Ben ja min Dutterau's 'The Barrie Kosky's production of King Lear Conciliation', 1840. 14 THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC for the Bell Shakespeare Company. Cartoon p5 by Dea n Moore. Photographs pp6, 12 by Andrew Stark. With Gerard Windsor, David Glanz, Photograph pl4 by Greg Scullin. Andrew Dodd, Richard Leonard, 48 Photographs pl6 by Penny Tweedi e. Dan Madigan, Frank O'Shea and FLASH IN THE PAN Photographs/graphics pp28-3 l , James Griffin. Reviews of the films Pudita Durangoi courtesy Melbourne University Press. Graphics pp1 5, 18-24, 41 - 45 by Live Fleshi In the Winter Darki Radiancei Siobhan Jackson. 19 Les Miserables and The Truman Show. Correction fo r September 1998: ARCHIMEDES p12 graphic was by Peter Fra ser. 50 Eurel<a Street m agazi ne Jesuit Publications 22 WATCHING BRIEF PO Box 553 INDONESIA: ISLAM RISING Ri chmond VIC 3 12 1 T el (03) 9427 73 11 Dewi Anggraeni on the flourishing 51 Fax (03) 9428 4450 of Islam in Indonesia. SPECIFIC LEVITY V OLuME 8 NuMBER 8 • EUREKA STREET 3 CoMMENT M ORAC FRASER A mngozine of public affairs, the orls and theology Publisher Daniel Madigan SJ When will we Editor Morag Fraser Assistant editor Kate Manton Consulting editor W mo :he election period for education~~== to register h:~~~~ on the Richter scale of Michael McGirr SJ political calculation? Tax we got. CST w e got. Footy and Graphic designer gold medals we go t, plus Pat Rafter's grace, and President Siobhan Jackson Clinton's dereliction. Production and business manager But what about consideration of Australia's future as a Sylvana Scannapiego country positioned, by its remarkable tradition of independ Editorial and production assistants ent research and scholarship, to be an intellectual power Juliette Hughes, Paul Fyfe SJ, Geraldine house at home and in the region at a time when the need for Battersby, Chris Jenkins SJ, Scott Howard redevelopment is so great? Not a priority, said the polls. And Contributing editors we, like sheep ... Adelaide: Greg O'Kelly SJ, Perth: Dean Moore But not all of us, fortunately. There were voices from Sydney: Edmund Campion, Gerard Windsor the outer cheering for something more than self-interest. In Queensland: Peter Pierce mid-September a group of qualified citizens told John Howard United Kingdom correspondent and Kim Beazley that Australia's present education policy Denis Minns OP was inadequate, inequitable and misdirected. Professor Peter Kannel, long an authority in Australian education, sounded South East Asia correspondent the alarm on schooling. Jon Greenaway Higher education got a run in the aftermath of Labor's Jesuit Editorial Board education policy launch when Kim Beazley vowed, if elected, Peter L'Estrange SJ, Andrew Bullen SJ, to become the Education Prime Minister. Given the record Andrew Hamilton SJ of both parties over two decades of shrinking investment and Peter Steele SJ, Bill Uren SJ constant 'reform' in education, his work would be cut out Marketing manager: Rosanne Turner for him. Labor was the party which, under Paul Keating, Advertising representative: Ken Head refused for the first time to fund the salary increases of Subscription manager: Wendy Marlowe university staff, causing an ongoing 10-12 per cent financial Administration and distribution shortfall that Australian tertiary institutions, with their Kate Matherson, Lisa Crow, Kristen Harrison, restricted revenue base, are in no position to make up. There Nomeneta Schwaiger is no guarantee that the refusal will be reversed. Patrons Meanwhile, the Coalition's Education Minister, Eurelw Street gratefully acknowledges the Dr Kemp, insists that the government is fostering quality in support of C. and A. Carter; the higher education by adding choice and decentralising the trustees of the estate of Miss M. Condon; system. He repeats these claims in the taxpayer-funded 'News W.P. & M.W. Gurry on Higher Education', despite evidence from universities that Eureka Street magazine, ISSN I 036-]758, Government in fact centralises wh ere it chooses. It carefully Australi a Post Print Post approved pp349181/003 14, controls, for example, the ratio of graduate to undergraduate is published ten times a year places (turning away undergraduates is not electorally by Eureka Street Magazine Pty Ltd, popular); controls the distribution of post-graduate awards 300 Victoria Street, Richmond, Victoria 3 121 Tel: 03 9427 73 11 Fax: 03 9428 4450 (in response to regional rather than academic considerations) e- mail: e [email protected] u and proposes a universal graduate exit test. http:/ jwww .openplanet.com.aufeureka So only a determined optimist could be encouraged about Responsibility for editorial content is accepted by the future of education in Australia. Fortunately there are Daniel Madigan, 300 Victoria Street, Richmond. people able to register protest and at the same time imagine, Printed by Doran Printing, 46 Industria l Drive, Braeside VIC 3 195. with force, a way forward. © jesuit Publications 1998 Professor Peter Doherty and Sir Gustav Nossal gave Unsolicited manuscripts, including poetry and public lectures in late August and September. Both are fiction, will be returned only if accompanied by effervescent talkers, full of unsubornable passion for their a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Requests for subject and qualified hope for the future. They are also permission to reprint material from the magazine should be addressed in writing to: scathing about the prevailing climate-we live in a time when The editor, Emel<a Street magazine, the term 'intellectu al elite' has been co-opted into the PO Box 553, Richmond VIC 3121 political vocabulary of derogation. Both men are exemplary 4 EUREKA STREET • O c TOBER 1998 leaders at a time when the country bemoans the lack best to make Mr Howard and Mr Beazley conform of a leadership of integrity.