Vol. 3 No. 8 October 1993 $5.00 Undermining Mabo On your way, sister Frank Brennan Pamela Foulkes The shaming of Manning Clark Trading in union futures Rosamund Dalziel! PauiRodan In Memoriam D.J.O'H One thirty. This is the time I saw you last Braving death with a grin in the stilled ward. Invaded and insulted, you stood fast, Ready to fight, or ford The cold black stream that rings us all about Like Ocean. Some of it got into your eyes That afternoon, smarting you not to doubt But to a new surprise At what sheer living brings-as once Yeats Braced in a question bewilderment, love and dying. As the flesh declines, the soul interrogates, Failing and stili trying. On a field of green, bright water in their shade, Wattles, fused and diffused by a molten star, Are pledging spring to Melbourne. Grief, allayed A little, asks how you are. 'Green is life's golden tree', said Goethe, and I hope that once again you're in a green Country, gold-fired now, taking your stand, A seer amidst the seen. Peter Steele In Memory of Dinny O'Hearn I Outcome, upshot, lifelong input, All roads leading to a dark Rome, We stumble forward, foot after foot: II You have taken your bat and gone home. Though you had your life up to pussy's bow, He disappeared in the full brilliance of winter, The innings wound up far too quick yellow sun unfailing, the voice of Kennett But the nature of knowledge, you came to know, utterly itself away on Shaftesbury A venue, Is itself the flowering of rhetoric. Keating unveiling a sort of cardboard republic and politics full of passive verbs. Your bullshit-counter hardly ever failed you, But only one strainful night Ticking its way through academic crap. after his minussing At Stewart's and at Percy's chums regaled you the first kool<aburra in yanks began With meshing yarns that constitute a map guffawing above elm-tufted Drummond Street, Of oral, Celt, republican Australia, recalling his miraculous ear for falsehood, Each face as rosy as a full blown dahlia. his jocund whiskeycoloured soul, now on early retirement. His absence was a black mechanical shadow creasing the macadam, the fetch of a small car whirring in the night. Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2 EUREKA STREET • OcrOBER 1993 Volume 3 Number 8 October 1993 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology 38 CoNTENTS LAW AND PEACE Peter Collins profiles Australia's n ext 2 ambassador to the Holy See, Michael Tate. IN MEMORIAM Peter Steele and Chris Wallace-Crabbe pay 40 THE SHAMING OF MANNING CLARK tribute to Dinny O'Hearn; Andrew Hamil­ Rosamund Dalziell argues that Australia's ton writes of Noel Ryan SJ (p31 ); and Pamela obsession with shame is at the heart of the Foulkes remembers John Truscott (p49). Clark controversy. 4 42 COMMENT RECENT AUSTRALIAN BOOKS Peter Steele; Damien Simonis (pS), Frank Paul Kane reflects on The Ern Malley Affair, Brennan (p6); and Evan Jones (pl2). and Niall Brennan remembers some of the 8 original players (p44); Sam Watson reviews Chris Walsh's Over M y Tracl<s (p45 ); LETTERS Michael McGirr retraces Janet McCalman's UN Peace Award 13 fourn eyings (p46); Margaret Coffey reviews From All Comers by Anne Henderson (p47). Andrew Hamilton SJ has re­ CAPITAL LETTER ceived a citation in the United Nations Peace Awards, print 14 48 THEATRE media category, for his 'Three TRADING IN UNION FUTURES Geoffrey Milne traces the history of one Years Hard', articles on the ex­ Paul Rodan reports on the ACTU congress, Australian state theatre company. perience of Cambodian refugees and the dwindling number of Australian in Australia, published in Eure­ unionists. ka Street, February and March 50 I A DEEP SONOROUS THING' 1993. 16 Damian Coleridge visits the N ewman ON YOUR WAY, SISTER College exhibition at Melbourne University, Cover: Straw sandals on the walls of a Pamela Foulkes looks at new activism Shinto temple in Chi chibu, Japan . and finds that it is a commentary on the by women in the church. Messages attached to the sandals bear relationship between modem art and reli­ good wishes from friends and relatives of people who have gone on long journeys. 18 gious tradition. Photo by Emmanuel Santos. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE Part I Damien Simonis reports on war and Islam­ 52 Photos pp3 and 46; FLASH IN THE PAN by Michael McGirr; ic fundamentalism in the Sudan; Kerryn Reviews of the films The Last A ction Hero Cartoons pp9-l0 by Dean Moore; Goldsworthy traces her tribe in Scotland Cartoons ppl2 and 53 by Peter Gale; The Story of Qiu fu, W aterland, Lil<e W ate; (p22); Chris McGillion goes on the trail of Cartoon pl6 by Graham English; for Chocolate, Olivier, Olivier and Mad Dog Cartoon pl7 by Prue Borthwick; Ho Chi Minh (p24); Peter Pierce looks at and Glory. Photos pp26-30 by Emmanuel Santos· images of Japan, western and Japanese (p26); Graphics pp34 and 40 by Tim Methe:all; Emmanuel Santos meets some Japanese Graphics pp42 and 46 by Siobhan Jackson. 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My next favourite is the travel European correspondent: Damien Simonis agency called 'Please Go Away'. I don!t know whether it does US correspondent: Thomas H. Stahcl SJ well, but our restless race has been taking its advice for as long Editorial board as records have been kept. Loving it or hating it, we have kept Peter L'Estrange SJ (chair), on the move. Margaret Coady, Margaret Coffey, The paradigmatic books for this in the West are The Madeline Duckett RSM, Tom Duggan, Odyssey and The Book of Exodus. The first is mainly concerned Trevor Hales, Christine Martin, with the adventures of an individual, the second with those of E..evin McDonald, Joan Nowotny IBVM, a people. In both cases, the span of emotions from desperation Lyn Nossal, Ruth Pendavingh, to exhilaration is on display; what is at issue is not only the John Pill FSC, seascape or the landscape but the geography of the pysche. Peter Steele SJ, Bill Uren SJ And so it has gone ever since. Whether it is Lucian dream­ Business manager: Mary Foster ing in AD200 of a voyage to the moon, or various astronauts Advertising representative: Tim Stoney telling the story of their trip to that unpromising spot, the un­ Editorial assistant: Jon Greenaway announced agenda is a charting of the human. Hakluyt's mot­ Patrons ley array of voyagers may be linguistic geniuses, like Ralegh, Eurel<a Street gratefully acknowledges the or lumpish enough reporters, but when they unfold their tale support of C.L. Adami; the trustees of the estate they expose the heart. Johnson and Boswell, stumping round of Miss M. Condon; A.J. Costello; D.M. Cullity; Scotland together, write the expedition up in predictably con­ F.G. Gargan; R.J. and H.M. Gehrig; vergent and fascinatingly divergent terms. Henry James, off on W.P. Gurry; J.F. O'Brien; A Little Tour in France, gives you detailed enough instructions A.F. Molyneux; V.J. Peters; to suit, say, Frommer's Guides, but every paragraph tells you Anon.; the Roche family; Anon.; that you are really in Jamestown. 'I've been to Paradise, but Sir Donald and Lady Trescowthick; I've never been to me,' says the song; travel writers do not give Mr and Mrs Lloyd Williams. up so easily. We often read with pleasure things that were written out Eurelw Street magazine, ISS N I 036- l 758, Australia Post registered publi cation VAR 91- 0756, of pain. After all, much travel is largely or entirely unwelcom e. is published eleven times a year In the Middle Ages, if you were both sufficiently immoral and by Eureka Street Magazine Pty Ltd, sufficiently repentant, you might be sent on pilgrimage for the 300 Victoria Street, Richmond, Victoria 3 121. term of your natural life. 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