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Vol. 9 No. 2 March 1999 $5.95 Andrevv Dodd in the Antarctic Michael McGirr on Lenten Banking Hugh Dillon on Law and Order ()ntl u 1r 011 tt1c 1 c11t1 1 Paul Collins 011 tl1e Eartlz Charter Plus Exorcism, Rugby League, Gerry Adams, and the curious case of the Rationalist Society .:. SENSA.,..'ONAL NOVEL FERGUS HUME'S TEXT PUBLISHI NG • ' _, - J .- - . ' Special Book Offer M Y S T E R Y 0 F A THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB by Fergus Hume and introduced by Simon Caterson A N Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886, the novel was an overnight sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and translated into eleven languages. This edition reproduces for the first time the text of the original Melbourne edition. The Sunday Times called it 'One of the 100 best crime novels of all time'. Shane Maloney says it's 'Fiendishly cunning!'. Thanks to Text Publishing, we have 10 copies of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab to give away, each worth $22.95. Just put your name and address on the back of an envelope and send it to: Eurel<a Street March Giveaway, PO Box 553, Richmond VIC 3121. 1. Frederick Douglass, (1818-1895), an African-American slave who caped and became an activist in the civil rights movement, supporting women's rights as well. 2. Russia. 3. Over 600. 4. St Thomas More. 5. Cosimo de' Medici, Giuliano, and Cosima's son, Giovanni. 6. Cologne Cathedral. 7. Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar. 8. Michael Boddy & Bob Ellis; Alex Buzo; John Romeril; Jack Hibberd. 9. Seventeen years (including one year for starting a bushfire in a bungled attempt to destroy company records). Robin Greenburg. 10. A theremin. 11. (a) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (b) Th e Godfather by Mario Puzo (c) The Orchard by Dmsilla Modjeska. 12. Jean Etienne Lenoir, in 1860. 13. In your kidney. 14. Rita Hayworth. 15. Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Gmmpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy. 16. Marie Curie and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie both won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. (Both also died of radiation-caused leukaemia.) 17. Epona, or Rhiannon who was a manifestation of Epona and Macha; Hathor; Ganesh. 18. POP: Points Of Presence the range of telephone numbers that a provider can use; ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network-a digital link provided by telecommunications companies to subscribers; URL: Uniform Resource Locator- the way that internet resources are addressed. 19. Cambridge don Andrew Wiles, in 1996. 20. They are the 21 non-Latin churches that give allegiance to Rome. Any of: Coptic; Ethiopian; Syrian; Maronite; Syro-Malankara; Armenian; Chaldean; Malabar; Belomssian; Bulgarian; Greek; Hungarian; Italo-Albanian; Melkite; Romanian; Ruthenian; Slovak; Ukrainian; Krizevci; Albanian; Russian. 21. (a)1902 (b)1920 (c)1928 (Although women's suffrage was granted just afterWWI in Britain, they had to be over 30 to vote until 1928, when universal adult suffrage was finally granted.) (d)1944. (Tiens! Un peu tard, n'est-ce pas?) (e) All those clocks didn't tell the Swiss what time it was until1971 . (f)1893 (So what if they say 'fush 'n' chups' and have no public broadcasting left?). 22. Milton's 'Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity'. 23. Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales. 24. D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo. 25. Enid Blyton's The Famous Five. 26. 'USS Enterprise'. 27. Shakespeare, The Pa ssionate Pilgrim. 28. Muriel Spark's The Comforters. 29. 1979. 30. Ursula le Guin. It first appeared in PNLA Quarterly 38, later in The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction 1979. 31. Morris West; Julian Morris: Moon in My Pocket, 1945, age 29; Michael East: McReary Moves In, 1958, age 42 (reissued under West's name and his title, The Concubine, 1973). 32. Vulcan. 33. An interest in men's ears (see Juliu s Caesar, Act III, Scene II) . 34. StJohn Lateran. 35. Bony. 36. All had their 100th anniversaries in 1998.37. Hyderabad; the India/Pakistan border. 38. The monk Volmar. 39. Maureen (Reebie); Sigmund (Jackie); Toriano (Tito); Jermaine; La Toya; Marlon; Steven Randall (Randy) and Janet. 40. Captain W.E. Johns (author of the Biggles books) overrode an RAF doctor's decision to reject Lawrence/Ross on medical grounds. He brought in a civilian doctor who passed the would-be recmit, enabling him to enlist. Thank you to all the enterprising sleuths wh o sent in entries for the January-February Summer Quiz. Congratulations to winner Maree Reid of Birchgrove, NSW, who will receive a copy of The Macquarie World Atlas, worth $99.95. Volume 9 Number 2 March 1999 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology CoNTENTS 23 4 SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE COMMENT Will tourism transform the Antarctic? With Morag Fraser, Michael McGirr asks Andrew Dodd (who went there). and Hugh Dillon. 27 7 WHAT'S IN A NAME? CAPITAL LETTER John Uhr argues for openness and public participation in nominating the president 8 of an Australian republic. LETTERS 30 12 RATIONALIST RUCTIONS THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC Margaret Simons investigates a split in With Frank O'Shea, Paul Collins, the ranks of one of Australia's grand old Rosey Golds, Richard Johnson and institutions, the Rationalist Society. Christine Nicholls. 35 13 INTEGRITY: THE LONG WALK ARCHIMEDES Antony Campbell asks whether you can factor fear into the unconditional 14 love of God. BUSH LAWYER 38 17 SCULPTURE ON SITE SUMMA THEOLOGIAE Peter Harris on the sculpture of Inge King and Ron Robertson-Swann. 18 FREEDOM FROM INFORMATION 40 Moira Rayner on FOI, nurses and LET'S EAT CHINESE convicted murderers. Ouyang Yu on being Chinese- Australian, or should that be Australian-Chinese? 19 POETRY 42 Cover design by Siobhan 'Love' and 'The Secret Imbalance', THEATRE Jackson. Cover photograph by Zoltan Kovacs; 'The Storks of Leon', Geoffrey Milne on the best of Australian by Darren Jew-iceberg off Coronation Island, South by John Kinsella (p33). summer shows. Orkneys. Graphics pp5, 16, 18, 21, 27-33 20 44 by Siobhan Jackson. Cartoons pp9- 10 by Peter Fraser. LETTERS HOME FLASH IN THE PAN Photogra phs pp23-26 by Andrew Hamilton on the Reviews of the films Shakespeare in Love; Darren Jew. recent communication from the Ronin; Men With Guns; Psycho Photograph p38 courtesy Australian Catholic bishops and and Little Voice. Peter Harris. the Vatican. Eureka Street magazine 46 Je suit Publications 21 WATCHING BRIEF PO Box 553 DOWN TO EARTH Richmond VIC 3 12 1 Tel (03) 9427 73 11 Paul Collins on som e theological 47 Fax (03) 9428 4450 implications of the Earth Charter. SPECIFIC LEVITY V O LUME 9 N UMBER 2 • EUREKA STREET 3 COMMENT EUAI:-KA SJAEET M ORAG F RASER A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology Publisher Daniel Madigan SJ Editor Morag Fraser Preambles Assistant editor Kate Manton Consulting editor w'" "'NO c>rnNc AWM fwm the «public this yeO< Michael McGirr SJ L ., and no getting away from the preamble. And neither should Graphic designer there be. Eureka Street will be following the debate and Siobhan Jackson making its own contribution throughout 1999. Production and business manager We begin, this month, with John U hr, who makes some Sylvana Scannapiego very practical suggestions about an open and participatory Editorial and production assistants n ominating process for the head of s tate (see p2 7). Frank Juliette Hughes, Paul Fyfe SJ, Geraldine Brennan will follow him next m onth. 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