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1. Making much with little material

   life. No doubt there is space for fiction here, but the two novels seem written up versions of a life ... 1988 By Andrew McGahan Allen and Unwin, 314 pp., $14.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley I like Andrew ... McGahan holds at a distance because this is not therapy or aggrandisement. He lives his life to write ...

2. Write On: Letter to 91������̳ Weekly

   and its effect on all areas of life, not just education. It is precisely because of the achievements ... current environment of widespread disillusionment with the major parties? Dave Riley Brisbane Greens' ... Fond Memories of Cuba I Senor Bradbury (Write On #501), may I suggest you learn Russian and get on ...

3. When you least expect it, you're selected

   But if you tire of the politician's catch phrases, the actor's public private life, the dirt ... a lot of fine folk out there doing their best with a life as found. At least for a few moments, through ... Front Up SBS, Tuesdays Reviewed by Dave Riley Where would television be without its regular fodder ...

4. Informing the ecological debate

   Press, 273 pp. Reviewed by Dave Riley There seems to be a frustrating paucity of informed debate within ... theorists of the life sciences. Her contributors are an impressive list, each of whom has established credit ... behaviour to the activity of genes. Richard Dawkins' outlook is a gene's eye view of life on ...

5. On the box

   On the box On the box By Dave Riley The drought may be over. In a week of transitions, we lost the ... criticisms of the IMF and the World Bank. A new two-part series (SBS, Monday, July 27) explores the life and ... egotism of these boys left over from a brown shirt rally. Their relentless absurdity is a comic dead end, ...

6. Tragedy as saccharin

   Riley Who are you? In most senses you could define yourself relative to other people — with whom you ... a sense of your own motor existence. Lose this, and you are in big trouble. This is the topic of ... Sacks is a skilled and articulate author of studies of some classic neurological disorders. One of the ...

7. Darwin: Refugees exhibit their artwork

   Refugees & migrants Peter Robson Gulumerrdgen/Darwin Curator Vikki Riley opened Footprints of ... Traditional dress are common as is the popular events of everyday life, such as horse racing. Joya told ABC’s ... my Heart ― an exhibition of artwork by 20 refugees in the Darwin region ― on August 11. The ...

8. Rogernomics come home to roost

   Dave Riley There is a future. Today's comfort becomes tomorrow's memory. Rosie Scott's ... new work is a novel, not of fantasy, but of extrapolation uncomfortably close to the present. The ... horror of this future place is seeded in the crude merchandising of today's economic czars. Set in ...

9. Much too nice

   Johnson Musical Director: Michael Morley Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane Until June 10 Reviewed by Dave Riley ... With its Berlin premiere in 1928, modern musical theatre was severely shaken. Here was a low life ... burlesque that chose to be as crude as the bawdiest of cabarets. But shock was not its only mark. ...

10. Adrian Moles' new diary

    REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction By Sue Townsend Michael ... invention whose penchant for ruining his life by dint of melodrama makes reading his diary one of the ... life, such as it is — is all too familiar. Like a twig on the shoulder of a mighty stream, the consumer ...

11. Laugh, and the ratings go up

    By Dave Riley As new flavours go, the taste of the TV '90s is short courses in Australian ... rates with McNair Anderson. Undergraduate revue and Fitzroy cabaret are treated as new intellectual life ... (Channel 7) is more undergraduate than most. Its lexicon is satire and smut. The satire — much of which is ...

12. Roddy Doyle Ha Ha Ha

    earthiness, boozy and bawdy, which celebrates life from the inside of a Dublin pub. So pervasive is this ... family life in depressed working-class Dublin to directly addressing his readers in the language of two ... The Woman Who Walked into Doors By Roddy Doyle Jonathan Cape. $29.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley ...

13. Famous puppeteer arrested in Philadelphia

    [This week's Life of Riley column defers to this profile of one of the great puppeteers of ... convention in Philadelphia last week. — Dave Riley.] The arrest of Gepeto took many by surprise. The famous ... puppet-maker is perhaps best known for creating Pinnochio in the Disney movie of the same name. This former ...

14. Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer- reluctantly

    Dave Riley Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer ran out of petrol and reluctantly died of kidney failure ... deceased) could only live the one life that was allotted him. Someone had to break the sports boycott of ... on Boxing Day. He was 68. When I look back at a life such as his I am reminded that we are all ...

15. Why bother with Brecht?

    we are sure to be treated to a fact feast of seminars and conferences dedicated to the work, life and ... pragmatic opportunism of his life, often in order to contrast this with the revolutionary ideals he ... part, I find Brecht's life fascinating. He is one of the few cultural icons of this century who ...

16. On the box

    On the box By Dave Riley In the name of situation comedy, an unending array of nuclear families ... observed with wry wit. Each episode is a parable of domestic life warmly but not loudly told. The absence ... the celebrated comedian of domestic life. Her repute is large in the United States. Here we have had ...

17. The joke's on us

    Riley If you believe that allegations of sexual misconduct by a US president is a reasonable excuse for ... war with Albania in order to increase his chances of re-election. Too close for comfort? Life ... all-out warfare has generally been focused on alien life forms such as those mean crustacean invaders of ...

18. Write on: Letters to the editor

    life. This is because of a number of legislative traps laid for them, with the sole purpose of driving ... Write on: Letters to the editor Support for S11 protest As chair of the International Committee of ... the United Trades and Labor Council of South Australia, I am proud to support the S11 protests against ...

19. Making love again!

    I joined Impotence Anonymous, and suddenly my life changed! No longer was I a victim of my own feelings of ... Dave Riley The good news is that fast and effective treatment is now available. Sadly though, for ... the millions of people in this country who presently suffer from election problems, no more than 10% ...

20. Hello. Is there anyone in there?

    Comment by Dave Riley Roger Clarke's brave attempt in the pages of 91������̳ Weekly to ... independence of the political life I have rather than trading it in for the second hand existence imprisonment ... Riley's advice by absorbing the experiences of at least a few months before renewing this discussion.] ...

21. A history lost in the fanfare

    20 Reviewed by Dave Riley After a life in the shadow of my parents' memories of "the ... marks this year's 50th anniversary of the end of the conflict leaves me very ambivalent. Us baby ... boomers depended on the active and intense procreation generated among the men and women of a demobbed ...

22. Food irradiation is back

    By Dave Riley Food irradiation is back on the menu. Australia's three-year moratorium on it ... expired on December 12. The National Food Authority will soon develop "standards on the process of ... treating food with ionising radiation to increase shelf life". What happens next is a purely political ...

23. Darwin refugee advocates condemn “heartless” Nauru plan

    prospect of a life in detention. He said these refugees face a double disadvantage: “They can't know ... we lost Father Paul Webb and Vikki Riley. Both worked closely together, inside and outside of ... announced on September 10 people would be transferred at the end of the week. Peter Robson from DASSAN spoke ...

24. Open season on paedophilia

    giving this fact the attention it warrants, and addressing the features of family life that may lead to ... Comment by Dave Riley The continuing brouhaha about paedophilia should give us all cause for ... thought. Suddenly — if NSW MP Franca Arena and various submissions to commissions of inquiry in both NSW ...

25. How we got into this mess

    Lines Allen and Unwin. 337 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Dave Riley When you fly the east coast of Australia ... Hancock: "Capitalism means life — environmentalism means death". Given the scale of the ... Taming of the Great South Land — A history of the conquest of Nature in Australia By William J. ...

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