Cover
About the Book
Title Page
Preface
Introduction
Twenty Years of Sydney Vivian Smith
THE REBELLION OF WORDS
The Story of an Underground Paper
Wendy Bacon v. The Commonwealth
An Editor in Jail Wendy Bacon
Other Protests
The Inspector and the Prince: A profile of Darcy Waters
TOWARDS LIBERATION
The Myth of the Male Orgasm
Yes, if asked in a survey I’d say I was a liberated lady
Defenders of Sexiness and Violence
For the Course, for the Strike – and for the Party
A Film Producer Comes Out Richard Brennan
Où Est le Porno? Norman Bartlett
And a Catholic Poet’s View of Change
‘Sidere Mens Eadem Mutato’ Les Murray
Couples Kate Jennings
THE WAR
Pat Yank Anonymous
An Anti-conscriptionist the Night Before He Went to Jail
After/The Moratorium Reading Nigel Roberts
THE GOLDEN YEARS
I Say Whitlam Doesn’t Matter
Shades of the Electorate
The Moment of Victory, 1972 Laurie Oakes and David Solomon
THE REPUBLIC
I Speak for Whitlam at the Opera House
The Meaning of Defeat Donald Horne
The Violent Option Manning Clark
Donald Horne – Profile of a Republican
The Mother Pi O
LE GHETTO DE BALMAIN
The Ghetto Gathers
A Subject of Derision
Balmain is Cannery Row
We Have a History!
The Stenhouse Circle and Balmain, 1851–72 Ann-Mari Jordens
Breaking Literary Decorum
Listening Backwards Vicki Viidikas
Great Pub Crawls
Getting Credit
Luncheon With a Royal Highness
The Pears Soap Story
Camping in Balmain
Sonnet 95 John Tranter
THE LITERARY LIFE
The Tabloid Story Story Michael Wilding
The Poet and the Motor Car
The Death of Three Young Writers
Rodney Hall on the Death of a Cult-Hero Rodney Hall
Poem for Charlie Michael Dransfield
The Thoughtless Shore Robert Adamson
The Poetry of Michael Dransfield and Charles Buckmaster Allen Afterman
Burnie John Laurence Rodd
Donald Horne on James McAuley Donald Horne
Where in the World was Kenneth Slessor? David Malouf
The Last Expatriate
David Malouf Replies David Malouf
A Conversation With Patrick White Thelma Herring and G. A. Wilkes
MAKING MOVIES
Film of the Decade – ‘Mouth to Mouth’
Interview with John Duigan Scott Murray
‘Dimboola’: Play to Film Jack Hibberd
Going to the Fair Thomas Keneally
Kitsch Jennifer Maiden
CAFES AND BARS
Cafe Society: Table-to-table Fighting
A Change of Restaurant
The New Bar
The Old Bar
The Angel is Gone
The Newcastle is Gone
The Hilton Arrives
The Value of Lunch at the New Hellas Myfanwy Gollan
Saturday Afternoon at the Nedlands Hotel Hal Colebatch
Pot v. Alcohol
CONFERENCE-GOING
Conference Tactics – Writers at a Conference
Teddy Bears’ Picnic – Political Economists at a Conference Frank Campbell
The End of Anti-Communism – Anti-Communists at a Conference
Developing a Dialogue – Feminists at a Conference Glynn Huilgol
Sexism is Insidious Julie Maddox
TAKING POSITIONS
Towards an Australian Marxist Intelligentsia
The Benefits of a Liberal Education Rex Mortimer
An Anarchist Comes to Power
The Blooming of Little Anarchism
How Many Badges Did you Earn?
A Radical Country Newspaper
The End of the Libertarians
Radical and Other Christmases in the Seventies
Tony Morphett, Born-again Christian Tony Morphett
Australian Feminist Periodicals in the Seventies Jane Sunderland
Women’s Hostility – Political Weapon or Personal Poison? Yvonne Allen
Portrait of a Powerful Australian Woman Andrew Clark
OR LET’S TRY RETURNING TO NATURE
The Bush Against Laundromat
Fighting It Out with the Locals
Breakfast John Forbes
Death in the Early Morning: two no-bull deaths Ranald Allan
Enter, Cosmos
INTO THE EIGHTIES
Donald Horne, born 1921
Vicki Viidikas, born 1948
Hal Colebatch, born 1945
Jack Hibberd, born 1940
John Forbes, born 1950
Turning Forty with the Decade
Untitled John Tranter
Events of a Decade – A Personal Chronology
Acknowledgements & Notes
An Informal Index
About the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright Page