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' Website: www.stjohn.co m. au EUREKA STREET O:s:<> ' > CCI EUREKA STREE I3:> Winter mN zm~ z cO 3: ., OJV mC <.n"""'C::: - n ~~m-, "-> > Why do we need James McAuley? g ;Q Not forgetting Hiroshima ~ Y' -i I ;o> -i "' >z 0 -i I m 0 r 0 Cl -< COVER STORIES 14 Citing Hiros hima Robin Gerster reports on Japan, COMMENT the Bomb and m em ory. 4 Marag Fra ser Marking tim e 1 7 Pensio n prospects 5 Andrew Hamilton Taking the Are we doom ed to repeat the mistakes Publisher An drew Hami lton >I high road Editor Morag Fra ser of history wh en it comes to the poor Assistant editor Kate Mant on and the old ? asks Ka y Rollison. Graphic des igner Siobhan jackson General manager M ark Dowell 22 Reca lling M cAuley M arketing Kirsly Grant LETTER S Peter Pierce on the complex and Advertising representative Ken Head 8 Monica Dennison and John Cannady compelling legacy of Jam es McAuley. 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R e ~u es t s for 20 D emocracy rul es ... OK? FLASH IN TH E PAN permi ss ion to reprin t mat erial from the rna gJzinc ~ h o ulcl be o1 ddrcss cd in w ri ting Moira Rayner reports on May Day 40 Reviews of the films Th e Man to th e ed it or. in London. Who Criedi Mulleti The Monkey's Ma ski One Hundred Steps and Thi s month : 25 Upping th e Aunty Cover des ign by Si ohhan Jackson Mark Armstrong takes issu e with State and Main. Cover photograph and photographs ppl, 4, 17 by Bi ll Thomas Quen tin Dempster's view of the ABC. Cartoon p9 by Trevor M cDonald 28 Operati o n Fiji Cart oons pp 18, .l8 by Dea n M oore SPECIFI C LEVITY Graphics pp6, 11 , 13, 14- 15, 20, Peter Davis gowns up with 26- 27, 30 by Siobhan Jackson Australi an volunteer surgeons. 43 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMENT: l MORAG FRASER Marking time 0 ,oc me w'scR <ccommcndatioo' of the May anniversary celebrations of both the federation parliament and the Labor Party Caucus came from former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam when he insisted that a fixed four-year term would be salutary for Australian politics. Certainly a fixed term would pare back some of the too-familiar pre-electoral limbo during which the government's hard policy work ceases and the opposition becomes dumbstruck about the detail of its future proposals. But which Australian political party is sufficiently unencumbered by self-interest to make the movel Meanwhile, the issues raised by the Governor­ General during the federation celebration-a genuinely representative parliament, reconciliation, protection of the environment and fairness for the disadvantaged-take a back seat. There is plenty of flurry from Canberra, but it has more to do with internal party power squabbles, leaks, misjudgments (will we ever be told the truth of what exactly Australia knew about East Timor in 1999?), and pre­ electoral manoeuvrings. The CSIRO might be vocal about the local environmental effects of climate change but Kyoto is hardly the first word on the prime­ ministerial lips. And equity-including due regard for the young and the old who are homeless or living with their dignity and hope constrained by inadequate income-what of thatl EUREKA STREET Mondays at Newman College The federal Labor Party cou ld be back in power by the end of 2001, but HOW WELL PREPARED IS LABOR FOR GOVERNMENT? A conversation w ith Shane Maloney (author of the Murray Whelan crime novels) and Brett Evans (a uthor of The Life and Soul of the Party: A Portrait of Modern Labor) Followed by open discussion. In conjunction w ith UNSW PRESS All welcome. Enquiries: Kirsty Grant (03 ) 9427 7311 4 Jun e 2001, 5.30pm for 6pm 887 Swanston Street, Parkville, Melbourne 4 EUREKA STREET • )UNE 2001 One of our cover articles this month, Kay out a vantage point for them, guarded it-and them­ Rollison's 'Pension prospects', deals with the history strenuously, wrapping her coat around their backs of provision for the poor in this country.