Stuart Macintyre

Stuart Macintyre is a professor of history at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of the fourth volume of the Oxford History of Australia, The Succeeding Age, 1901-1942.

Letter

Outside Australia

18 February 1988

Like a number of other Australian readers, I enjoy the London Review greatly. Like a fair few, I suspect, my pleasure that the journal has found space for Australian publications and Australian writers is tempered by concern at the rather narrow range of those writers and especially the heavy reliance on some of the expats. I admire Peter Porter, Clive James, et al: but somehow they sustain the impression...

Bullshit and Beyond

Clive James, 18 February 1988

In its short history, Australia has weathered several storms. By world standards they were minor, but at home they loomed large. The First World War was a rude awakening; the Great Depression hit...

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