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The fees are very program sets out to ground stu- For more information contact the Information Officer Hofbauer Centre, 93 Alma Road, East St Kilda, Phone (03) 529 7861 Volume 5 Number 6 EURI:-KA SJRI:-Er August 1995 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology CoNTENTS 34 BOOKS Max Teichmann looks into the back­ 4 ground of the controversy over Helen COMMENT D emidenko's The Hand That Signed Th e Paper. 9 Paul Collins reviews Ronald Madra's CAPITAL LETTER The Catholic Church and Anti­ semitism, Poland, 1933-1939 (p36); 10 David Oldroyd is intrigued by Christo­ LETTERS pher Badcock's Psycho Darwinism: Th e New Synthesis of Darwin and Freud 16 (p37). PICK A CARD, ANY CARD Margaret Simons examines the shifting 39 face of allegiance in Australian politics. EXHIBITIONS Michael McGirr goes to a show of 22 mortal dread in Melbourne whilst Beth OBITUARY Gilligan baulks at immortal light in Ray Cassin pays tribute to Dominican Sydney (p40). theologian Yves Congar. Cover: 42 The not so odd couple, 23 FOOD Paul Keating and Jeff Kennett COCONUT REPUBLIC Catriona Jackson and Rosey Golds get Photograph courtesy Th e Age. Moira Rayner reviews the conditions of Photograph p5 by Bill Thomas. their fill at foodie conferences. Cartoons pp7, 29, 30-33 by Peter independence in the Cocos Islands. Fraser. 45 Cartoons ppl l , 12, 28, by Dean 25 THEATRE Moore. Graphics pp16-2 1 by Catri ona ARCHIMEDES Geoffrey Milne reviews the work of jackson. playwright Nick Enright. Photographs pp 16-2 1 co urtes y 26 Th e Age (fo r Elizabeth Proust); TAKING LIBERTIES WITH Peter Singer; the offices of Peter 47 Collins, Bob Debus, Wayne Goss; FRATERNITY FLASH IN THE PAN The Liberal Party of NSW (for john Renewed nuclear testing is only the latest Reviews of the new-release films Priest, Fa hey, Barry Morris, Brendan Nel­ in France's complex relationship with the Death and the Maiden, Ed Wood, Tank son & jennifer Scott). South Pacific, writes Rowan Callick. Photograph p3 7 by Girl, Batman Forever, Mushrooms, Reimund Zunde. Braveheart and First Knight. Photograph of Antonia Bird, p49, 29 Ray Cassin and Tim Stoney interview courtesy Roadshow Film Distrib­ GONE TO THE DOGS the director of Priest, Antonia Bird utors. Peter Pierce checks the pedigree of grey­ (p49). hound racing. Eurek a Street magazine 50 jesuit Publi cations 30 WATCHING BRIEF PO Box 553 LIFTING THE LID Richmond VIC 3 121 Tel (03 ) 9427 731 1 Anne O'Brien finds politics in the polite 51 Fax (03 ) 9428 4450 culture of Australian piano-playing. SPECIFIC LEVITY V O LUME 5 NUMBER 6 • EUREKA STREET 3 EURI:-KA STRI:-ET C OMMENT FRASER A magazine of public affairs, I he arl s M oRAe and theology Publisher Michael H. Kelly SJ Editor Toxic waste Morag Fraser Consulting editor A ucusT MAe<S TH' MOH TeWC •msd><cctwn of the Michael McGirr SJ century. In July 1945, the science of the Manhattan Project revealed a deadl y face w ith the detonation of the first atornic Editorial assistant: Jon Greenaway bomb in the desert of N ew Mexico. In August 1945, the Produ cti on assistants: J. Be n Booncn CFC, Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed Pa ul Fyfc SJ, Juliette Hughes, by atomic bombs. The horror of these events leached away Catriona Jackson, C hris Jenkins SJ, Paul Ormonde, Tim Stoney. trust in science and confirmed the growing sense of human powerlessness in the face of catastrophe. Contributing editors The death ca mps of Europe were a revelation of human Adelaide: Greg O'Kell y SJ bestiality. The explosions in Japan showed to an awed and Brisbane: Ian Howells SJ frightened world that we now had a matching technology Perth: Dean Moore with which to destroy ourselves. It has proved hard, during Sydney: Edmund Campion, Andrew Riemer, the remainder of the century, to maintain hope or ardent Gerard Windsor. purpose. European correspondent: Dam icn Simonis So it was surprising and heartening to sec the extent of US correspondent: Thomas H. Srahcl SJ protest at the French Government's decision, under Jacques C hirac's new Gaullist regime, to resume nuclear testing in Ed itori al hoard the Pacific. In the short term, protest may not change French Peter L'Estrange SJ (c hair), policy, directed as it is towards balanci ng its own internal M<lrgaret Coady, Margaret Coffey, dom estic tensions. But it has invigorated a cynical world Valda M. Ward RSM, Trevor Hales, poli ty. Perhaps som e of the flow-on energies can be put to Marie Joyce, Kev in McDonald, good usc here at hom e. Jane Kelly IBVM, Australia at present has a double-edged policy on anti ­ Peter Steele SJ, Bi 11 U rcn SJ personnel landmincs. It supports and is a signatory to the Business manager: Sylvana Sc<lnnap icgo United Nations Convention banning long-life, or 'dumb' Advertising representative: Tim Stoney mines-the kind that do not self-destruct within a designated Patrons period. It docs not, at present, support a total ban on land­ Eurelw SLreel gra tefully acknowledges the mines. It argues, with some regret and not much convic­ support of Colin and An gela Carter; the tion- if one is to go by Senator Gareth Evan's tone in replying trustees of the estate of Mi ss M. Cond on; to questions in the Senate- that the so-called 'smart' mines, A.J. Costello; Denis Cullity AO; the ones that do have inbuilt self-destruct m echanisms, are W.P. & M.W. Gurry; Geoff Hill and a legitimate WC<lpon of war and important in forward defence. Janinc Perrett; the Roche family. There is a growing body of evi dence to suggest that 'smart' mines, which arc more expensive to produce, are not Eurelw Street magazine, ISSN 1036-1758, reli ably smart and their usc will be inhibited by cost. A total Australia Post Print Post approved ban is the only sure way of bringing to a halt the by-now pp349 181 /003 14 well-documented civilian terror that landmincs generate. is published ten times a yea r Defending Australia's current stance, Senator Evans by Eureka Street Magazine Pty Ltd, 300 Victoria Street, Richmond, Victoria 3 12 1. appeals to pragmatism . He argues that in the present climate Tel: 03 9427 73 11 Fax: 03 9428 4450 it is better to go for bans which have some chance of obtaining international support. Re sponsibility for ed itorial content is accepted by But maybe it is about time to work on that climate of Michael Kell y, 300 Victoria Street, Ri chmond.