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LETTERS 27 10 SHAVING DR GRACE'S BEARD CAPE OF DOUBTFUL HOPE Australian women cricketers talk to Tim Jim Davidson finds some of the old Cape Stoney about their hopes of raising the Town in the new South Africa. profile of their sport. Eureka Street's 13 29 Production editor, Ray Cassin, ARCHIMEDES QUIXOTE has won the 1994 Wall<ley Award 14 30 for the three best h eadlines BEARING THE BURDENS OF PROOF BOOKS published in the Moira Rayner discusses harassment and Bruce Williams sifts the letters of Patrick Australian print m edia. old-fashioned gentlemen. White and the memoirs of Geoffrey Dut­ ton; Fred Chaney compares m emories 15 with John Button (p33); Bruce Pascoe HALF A STORY TELLS NO praises Peter Carey (p34); Juliette Hughes STORY AT ALL wades through the praise for Mary James Griffin challenges some media MacKillop (p35 ); Matthew Ricketson reports of the war on Bougainville. ponders Sylvia Plath and the biography industry (p36); and Catriona Jackson Cover Photograph: Four-hundred­ 16 reflects on why we are what w e eat (p39). year-old messmate, l 5.4 metres SPITTING CHIPS in circumference at chest height, di scovered in the environs of Ending the logging of Au stralia's native 41 Ell ery Creek, East Gippsland, in hitherto forests makes good economic sense, says THEATRE untouched old-growth Juliette Hughes. wet sclerophyll fores t. Geoffrey Milne rea ds a clutch of new Aus­ The area is now slated for logging coupes. tralian play texts. Photograph by Bi ll Thomas. 19 FOR WHOM THE BELLAMY TOLLS 43 Photographs pp3, 16- 17, 19 by Bill Thomas. David Bellamy talks to Juliette Hughes. Graphics pp5, 15 by Siobhan jackson. FLASH IN THE PAN Cartoons pp9, 34-35 by Dea n Moore. Reviews of the films Mary, Once Were Graphics ppl0-14 by Tim Metherall. 21 Warriors, No Worries, The Music of Photographs p23 by Andrew Stark. COME BUY WITH ME Photographs pp24-25, 28 by Tim Stoney. Chance, Miracle on 34th Street, Search ­ Cartoon p3 7 by Peter Fraser. Shopping tours are big business, reports ing for Bobby Fisch er, Tom and Viv and Michael McGirr. Country Life. Eurel<a Street magazine 22 46 jesuit Publica ti ons THE LAW TURNS ABOUT-FACE ON SPEC PO Box 553 ON JUSTICE Richmond VIC 3 12 1 Political expedience rules immigration Tel (03)427 73 1 1 47 Fax (03)428 4450 law, argues Andrew Han1ilton. 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This sour little tale catches up a Edi tori<ll board readiness to attribute both knavery and folly to politicians­ Peter L'Estrange SJ (chair), or to some of them, an attitude familiar in Australia. A dif­ Margaret Coady, Marga re t Coffey, ference between the two countries is that whereas Ameri cans Madeline Duckett RSM, Trevor Hales, tend to believe in the sacred nation state, Australians do Marie Jo yce, Kevin McDonald, not, so our slanging of our politicians, whether or not it slurs Jane Kelly IB VM, the offices they may hold, does not perturb us greatly, though Ruth Pendavingh, of course it can't be much fun for them. It is impossible to Peter Steele SJ, Bill Uren SJ imagine an Australian equivalent of the sitcom routine in Bu sin ess manage r: Mary Foster which an ordinary citizen, finding that a telephone call is Advertising representative: Tim Stoney from the White House, automatically comes to attention. 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