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...with unreliable intelligence. A former Australian official who worked on Iraq says the atmosphere is like that of an emergency room: "You just go from one crisis to the next." Yet most of the bureaucratic handiwork on Iraqi Oil-for-Food was done from the comfort zones of Canberra and New York...
...filmmaking when De Heer was accepted into the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. After graduating, he found the going tough. An early children's feature was followed by a sci-fi thriller, and then, after an aborted film in Indonesia, De Heer began living in Canberra. It was there he received a phone call from his loyal sound designer, offering him a permanent office in Adelaide. "It's off the center a bit," admits Currie, "but he has everything at his beck and call." Indeed, with the nearby infrastructure of the South Australian Film Corporation, where such...
...professionals." Only a handful of 50 diploma students Burns graduated with six years ago are still in the industry. The low pay has made her consider leaving several times; she's stayed, she says, only because she loves what she does. In the Department of Child Studies at Canberra's Institute of Technology, head Leslie Ralph says enrolments are healthy, but students are often disheartened by stories of wages and conditions. Ralph hopes they'll benefit from a growing recognition of their job's importance: "Parents are more aware that it's not baby-sitting...
...Apart from its discipline and efficiency, Howard's office is known for its micromanagement; it's the hub of Canberra's conservative politics and bureaucratic power. So is the P.M. a one-man band? Howard rejects any notion that he's all-knowing or ever-present. First, he says, it's impossible these days to keep track of all the information flooding into his office. Second, he's restored the preeminent role of Cabinet, which has collectively taken all the major decisions. "Obviously I have views, and I'm not suggesting for a moment that those views aren't listened...
...very devoted, patriotic parents and I had a comfortable upbringing in a lower-middle-class suburb, Earlwood." He stays in touch with average people, he claims, because he has not succumbed to the trappings of high office. Howard has tried not to spend too much time in Canberra ("it's atypical of Australia - I don't mean that rudely"), he says: "I travel the country with relentless evenness and regularity." But many of his touchstones are outdated. The suburbs of Sydney where Howard was raised in the postwar years are like palimpsests. The postcodes have not changed, but the ethnic...