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AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW JULY 200 I Genocide: An essay by Raimond Gaita Bitter Fame: Kerryn Goldsworthy on Charmian Clift Eric Rolls on Peter Timms's Making Nature Andrew Markus: Land Rights to Reconciliation Michael Kirby on Religion and Culture in Asia Pacific New poetry by J.S. Harry and Peter Steele Delia Falconer in New Zealand New Subscnbers $63.50 for ten 1ssues (1nc GST) & a free book Ph (03) 9429 6700 or email abr@v~enet net.au ARBN A00371 02Z ABN 21 176 539 338 Art Monthly AUSTRALIA IN THE ]UL Y ISSUE Stephen \:aylor reports on the Yenice Bicnnale. Hatched: Jan :\lcLean looks at what is coming out of the combined graduate show this year. Deborah Clark on the studio tradition in the history of an art school. ReYiews: / 'err .filii parl· from Taiwan; Tltt' t•ye .<ttl/ saks from Pakistan; China China, :\h Xian in Sydney. Book RCYiews: Christopher Heathcote on Andrew Sayers' .-lustra/tan .·lrt and Suhanya Raffel 0 on Gccta ~apur\ 11"/uu ll'as nwdt' rnism.i. SfJ.OO ji-om all good hooks/tops and nc~t •sagmts. or phone ()] fJ/ :!.'i 3986 .fin your suh.<tnption. < )> 0:;::: co' > EUREKA STREE I s:)> ~z=~ c:ozm S:" w-o mC ;ow o--C:: -n c> :::..,•.., c)>)> oei c· V>-1 --<I "-'m 0)>o,., ~_, V> )> COMMENT z 0 4 Morag Fra ser Open spaces --1 I r-0 0 LETTERS () -< 6 Quentin Dempster, fohn Iremonger and Don Gazzard THE MONTH'S TRAFFI C 8 Michael McGirr N o feath er in COVER STORY Publisher Andrew H am ilton 51 their caps Editor Morag Fraser 22 Prom ising the world Ass istant ed it or Kate Manton 9 fohn Ricl<ard Federal case interviews Graphic des igner Siobhan jackson 11 Ma ggie Helass State of grace Juliette Hughes General manager Mark Dowell 12 Kevin Childs Chilling with silks Labor Sh adow Environment Minister, Marketing Kirsty Grant Nick Bolkus. 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FLASH IN THE PAN This month: Cover design by Siobhan jackson 30 Literature under arms 48 Reviews of the films Series 7; Moulin Cover photograph and photographs fohn Sendy goes in search of Rouge; Russian Doll; The House of pp8-9, 23, 26-29 by Bi ll Th omas Graphics pp11, 19-2 1, 36 Rolf Boldrewood. Mirth; The Crimson Rivers and Th e by Siobhan Jackson 3 7 Saharan so ngs Sacred Stones. Ca rtoon p 12 by Dean Moore Ph otographs pp14- 17 courtesy Anthony Ham travels in Libya with Suza nne Edgar the Tuareg. Photograph p22 by Heide Smith SPECIFI C LEV ITY Photography 41 Reasons for travelling Photographs p46 by Jeff Bu sby Morag Fras er finds a few . 51 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMENT MORAG FR ASER Open spaces I N ) UN c, 'not hn Au""li'n publishing ven tme places are available, with all the energy one can fo lded. muster. The Australian Review of Bo ol<s, the monthly The day after The Australian Review of Books Wednesday supplement of its national parent news appeared for the last time, a documentary film had paper, The Australian, announced its closure, just shy its premiere in Melbourne. Called The Sacred Stones, of its fifth birthday. it told the story of the return, to its traditional There is a separate discussion to be had about Aboriginal custodians, of the rock that had long the history of the Review's funding and the reasons marked the grave of John Flynn- the famous Flynn given for its closure-but another place for that. I want of the inland, pioneer of Australia's fl ying doctor to comment here only on one consequence of its service. removal from the Australian public arena. It is this. It is not a simple story. The rock itself, one of the so-called Devil's Marbles (Karlu Karlu ), was originally taken from Warumungu and Kaytetye land in Central Australia and lowered, ceremonially, on to a plinth built over John Flynn's ashes. Its rem oval troubled the traditional owners for almost half a century. Mean while, Flynn's grave became over the years a sacred place of another kind, for another people. And a site of conflict. E YNN's succESSOR was the Reverend Fred McKay. He was the man who organised the placement of the original stone. He was also the man who oversaw its removal, return and its substitution with another stone, offered as a gesture of reconciliation by the neighbouring Arrente people. So many stones, yo u might think- why should any particular one matter? In the final edition there was some correspond It takes a story to explain why. And some grace ence about historian Inga Clendinnen's review of and ease in the telling. As the film's co-writer, Andrew Robert Manne's extended essay, 'In Denial: The Stolen Dodd, remarked on the freezing Melbourne opening Generations and the Right'. The featured letter, night, to an audience including Aboriginal elders from written by academic and former Quadwnt magazine Central Australia, 'Reconciliation is something that editorial adviser Martin Krygier, was a model of the doesn't come easily.' kind of civil, trenchant and full discussion that is too You could see the com plexity of the story, and rare in this country of quick, adversarial reflexes. the strains of a reconciliatory process, registering on Reading it, you were left not just with a sense of the face of Fred McKay as he explained, through a the complexity of the historical and justice issues to marvellous, animated interview filmed just before his be addressed by all of us in Australia, but with some death at 92, how he cam e to understand why the stone confidence also that they might be resolved, over time had to go back. You could also see, on the faces and and with imagination and good will. in the voices of the Warumungu and Kaytetye people, Now, with the Review's closure, there is one less what the cost had been to them. place for the exercise of imagination, intellect and As Martin Krygier's letter did, the film made good will, or for writing of an extended, and reasonably space for thought. We need such spaces. • argued kind. That in itself is a reflection on the -Morag Fraser priorities of the culture we are building. But it is also Th e Sacred Stones was made by Albert treet Productions a prompt to take up such conversations, arguments in conjunction with Oxfam Community Aid Abroad. Watch and reflections and continue them in whatever other SBS for a television screening. It is reviewed on page 49. 4 EU REKA STR EET • jULY/AUGUST 2001 Jack Waterford Put your money in a sock I T'' .cw m "'"'TO impo"ible to "P""c policy hom politi", new ideologies, and have rearranged the machinery of govern but when pure politics is driving the policy, rather than the ment to fit, but the Australian public have not fallen in behind other way round, it's time to get the money out of the bank and them.