ROMANTIC LOVE IN THE DOCK: WUTHERING HEIGHTS RECONSIDERED
by Lucy Sullivan Although on its first publication in 1846, some condemned Wuthering Heights for the violence and brutality of the lives and passions it depicted, in the mid-20th century it was the most acclaimed of the Brontë sisters’ novels, and the “love affair” of Catherine and Heathcliff, also, as the most powerful of representations…
LONELINESS: THE OTHER PANDEMIC
by Anne Lastman Many years ago, during my psychology studies, I read a study that has stayed with me all the ensuing years. The study was about emotional deprivation. It was carried out by a psychoanalyst called René Spitz (1944) and involved 40 new babies. These babies were divided into two groups. One group was…
ABC’S BELATED DISCOVERY OF ANDREWS’ QUARANTINE FARCE
by Peter Westmore Months after other media outlets, including News Weekly, documented the Victorian Government’s persistent blame shifting over failures of hotel quarantine that led to the spread of covid19 and costing hundreds of lives, the ABC has discovered that breaches of hotel quarantine caused the Victorian second wave. The ABC’s Four Corners program was…