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Issue Details:
First known date:
2007...
17-18 November
2007
of
The Australian
est. 1964
The Weekend Australian
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* Contents derived from the 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Blainey Ire over PM's History Prize,
single work
column
John Lyons reports on disquiet over the awarding of the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. The award was presented jointly to Les Carlyon's The Great War and Peter Cochrane's Colonial Ambition. Some sources reported that the former book was the Prime Minister's personal preference.
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Untitled,
single work
correspondence
Colquhoun comments on Bob Carr's erudite review of Colleen McCullough's Antony and Cleopatra.
- Untitled, single work correspondence (p. 2) Section: Review
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To Die For,
single work
criticism
Graeme Blundell asserts: 'Crime fiction is now a complex precinct where readers face a bewildering variety of choices'. Blundell provides a quick overview of crime fiction's sub-genres and canvasses Australian and international exponents of some of them.
- Joel Adds Winning Chapter to Home Stories, single work column (p. 5)
- Windy Gapi"As I was going through Windy Gap", single work poetry (p. 6) Section: Review
- Land Lines, single work biography (p. 6) Section: Review
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Telling Tales,
single work
review
— Review of The Complete Stories 2007 selected work short story ; (p. 8-9) Section: Review -
The Overflow,
single work
column
A column canvassing current literary news including a report of correspondence to the column from Antoni Jach who wrote of his great grandfather's poetic response to A. B. Paterson's 'Clancy of the Overflow'.
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Inner Storyteller Out in the Cold,
single work
review
— Review of The Lost Dog 2007 single work novel ; (p. 11) Section: Review -
Finiali"I have your final smile by rote;",
single work
poetry
The title and first line appear to play with the concept of the finial as decorative terminal ending on gables or flagstaffs, or the serif-ornamented typographic ending stroke, and 'final' as in 'final smile.' The body of the poem then suggests an orthodox meditation on lost love, but the closing stanza asserts that 'blind worms are flight as yet undressed' - and implies that love, hope, or the poet, will rise again.
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From Torment to Loud Tedium,
single work
review
— Review of All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane 2007 single work film/TV ; Gabriel 2007 single work film/TV ; (p. 23) Section: Review -
Wallpaper Queen Meets a Sticky End,
single work
review
— Review of Unfolding Florence : The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst 2006 single work film/TV ; (p. 28) Section: Review
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