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Catholics and the Anti-Communist n Struggle in Australia CJ-· ..:L by Bruce Duncan - The split in the Australian Labor Party in the mid 1950s 0 was the culmination of an enormou s struggle for the soul of the party, waged by fair means and by foul. Locked in bitter co 0 ideological dispute were a small but energetic group of co Communists and their sympathisers ranged against the 0 equally passionate anti-Communist forces led by B.A. Santamaria. 0 - Drawing on previously unreleased documents, this is the 7\ first comprehensive account of events leading up to the ·- split. It has an extraordinary cast of characters, fr om u Archbishop Daniel Mannix to H .V. Evatt. Q) Thanks to UNSW Press, Eureka Street has I 0 copies of Crusade or Conspiracy! to give away, each worth $49.95. Ju st put yo ur name 0... and address on the back of an envelope and send it to: Eureka Street April Book Offer, PO Box 553, Richmond, VIC, 3 121 . Cf) (See page 8 for winners of the January-February 2001 Book Offer.) <> O:s: ' > cCl El.JREKA STREE I :s: > : ~ ~ z zrn cO :s: -n co " rnC Ale::> w C:: >n v > ;=-nAJ -, N~ O AJ Oy> -< I COMMENT > "'-< 4 Michael McKernan Homegrown V> > advantage z 0 -< I rn 0 r LETTERS 0 () 8 Bridget Griffen-Poley, fohn Carmody -< and Ian Manning juliette Hughes' profile and Meg Gurry's article have been assisted by the THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC Commonwea lth 10 Michael McGirr Blue ribbon seat Government through th e Austra lia Council, its arts 1 0 Rosemary West Democrats two-step funding and advisory body. 12 Kathryn O'Connor Market benefits 13 Tim Stoney Caught in slips Publisher Andrew Hamilton 51 14 Anna Reynolds Carbon cop-out Editor M orag Fraser Assis tan t editor Kate Mant on Graphic designer Siobhan jackson General manage r M ark Dowell COLUMNS Marketing Kirsty G rant COVER STORY Advertising representative Ken H ead 7 Capital Letter Subscription manager W endy M arlowe Jack Waterford Panic stations and 22 The Green battler Editorial produ ction and administration 1 Juliette Hughes profiles Australian ass istants juliette HL1 ghes, Paul Fyfe 51, policy-free zones Greens Senator Bob Brown. 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Gallery of Victoria. only if accompanied by a stamped, se lf-a ddressed envelope. Reques ts for 28 Kalimantan chaos permi ss ion to reprint materi al fro m th e magazi ne should be addressed in w riting fohn McCarthy traces the causes of the to the editor. current crisis in Kalimantan. FLASH IN THE PAN 44 Reviews of the films Proof of Life; This month: 30 Broome's other pea rl s Cover des ign by Siobhan jackson Aboriginal, Catholic and complex Traffic; Quills; Rosetta and In the Cover pho tograph of Bob Brown and -Susan Varga discovers Broome. Mood for Love. photographs pp22- 26 courtesy Australian Bu sh Heritage Fund 33 Hong Kong kings G raphics pp10, 13, 15, 16,20 Jon Greenaway reports on challenges by Siobhan jackson SPEC IFI C LEVITY Graphics pp 17 and 19 by Ell en Nangle to democracy and the rule of law in Ph otographs pp33-35 by Jon Greenaway Hong Kong. 47 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMENT M I C H AEL McKERNAN Home-ground advantage The opening of the National Museum of Australia presents us with an opportunity to commemorate those who have suffered in conflicts on our native so il. 1 1979 MELBOURNE historian Professor Geoffrey incorporating into the one exhibition 'Aboriginals, Blainey was commissioned to undertake a study of Eureka, the commandos of the Boer war, New Guinea the Australian War Memorial's displays to assist in a 1942-44 and Vietnam'. better presentation of Australian military history. Blainey's creative vision of the past might have Blainey's trademark then, as now, has been to produced a remarkable Australian War Memorial see connections that most of us miss. He has, one of exhibition on guerrilla warfare. Certainly the Boers and the Vietcong enjoyed a 'home-ground advantage' as Geoffrey Blainey was quick to recognise. To place Aboriginal- European warfare within that context was challenging and far-sighted, anticipating the ground­ breaking research of Henry Reynolds. Not surprisingly, the War Memorial's governing body-of which, ironically, Geoffrey Blainey is now a member- declined to take up his suggestion and the report was quietly buried. No-one branded the idea 'black-armband history' because Geoffrey Blainey had not then given the expression currency. He would launch that notion in 1993 an d find it embraced enthusiastically by John Howard. If Blainey's suggestion h ad been adopted in 1979, how difficult might it have been for current revisionists to deny the fighting on the frontier? For museums, certainly as treasured a museum as the Australian War Memorial, tend to bring a certain imprimatur to their displays that is perhaps stronger even than the certainty we seek to find in books. Even journalists such as the Melbourne Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt would find it hard to deny 'th e stolen generations' if they were to study the documents con­ tained in the Nat­ ional Archives of Australia's extra­ ordinary travelling exhibition, 'Bet­ ween Two Worlds'. I remember stand­ his publishers claimed, 'the eye of a poet who takes ing speechless before in the detail, the subtlety and the sentiment'. Blainey a police officer's advised the War Memorial that 'within the next account of the for- decade' there would need to be a display on cible, tearful removal of children at Wave Hill in Aboriginal-European warfare.