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Alive in an Abusurd Sea: Wang Shuo, The Editors and Others (A Television Series)--by Geremie Barme, research fellow, Australian National University, Canberra. Coolidge Hall, room...
...more neutral observers wonder whether Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Labor Party government in Canberra is the villain or the scapegoat. Agriculture is a notoriously boom-and-bust business. If any single factor is to blame, it is probably Australia's dodgy trading position in a rapidly industrializing part of the world...
...citrus, the bruiser has been import liberalization. In 1988 Canberra relaxed tariffs on a variety of products, enabling Brazilian oranges to capture 20% of the domestic market. Australia's 167,000 farmers protested that such imports were heavily subsidized by foreign governments. But Canberra remains committed to free trade in an effort to make the country more competitive. Whether market-oriented policies will rescue the countryside is the big gamble: a question, as the doomed sheep might attest, of killing some agriculture in order to save...
...wonder if Penrith will win--it's the first Grand Final appearance in the 23-year history of the Panthers. Last week, I watched Penrith halfback Greg Alexander help his team qualify for the Grand Final by ripping through the defending champion Canberra Raiders' defense in a 30-12 win in extra time. Alexander scored two tries and seven goals in an impressive 22-point performance for someone described as "not being able to win the big ones...
...abroad will be mounting shows that will attempt to map the many lines drawn by what Talbot boasted was "the pencil of nature." The first, and one of the most ambitious, is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston until April 30 (stops in Canberra, Australia, and London follow). Curated chiefly by the collector Daniel Wolfe, "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989" is a thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures. It would be possible to assemble another equally...