THE MANNIX ERA: Melbourne Catholic Leadership 1920–1970 by Patrick Morgan Connor Court, Redland Bay Paperback: 320 pages Price: AUD$29.95 News Weekly is pleased to present for our readers an extract from Australian historian Patrick Morgan’s forthcoming book, The Mannix Era: Melbourne Catholic Leadership 1920-70. Patrick Morgan is…
Ten organisations have penned an open letter to Victorian politicians “demanding that candidates and political parties do not divide Victorian communities with hate and fear this state election”. The organisations are all to the left of the political spectrum. They include the Victorian Trades Hall Council, Environment Victoria, Australian Conservation Foundation, Friends of the Earth…
Much like creativity in art, memory itself is an act of selective re-creation. Rather than a recording of events, memory is the re-construction of those events, a re-construction that is based as much on our understanding of the world as it is on some sort of “objective” record. This parallel between art and memory can…
When the American rock band, the Doobie Brothers, did their farewell tour in 1982 – it turned out to be anything but a goodbye – one of the founding members, Tom Johnson, appearing as a guest, told the audience that, although there had been many members of the band, the common element throughout had been…
