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Australian Arts

Charlie Watts

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

The endless news is of shows locked down as every form of life is locked down in a nation struggling to conquer the virus by inoculation. There really is little prospect of entertainment in a public place until we reach the eighty percent vaccination at Christmas or whenever. Was it in Gideon Haigh’s impressive book The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent that I read one of those early judicial eminences of our blood and state – Sir Isaac Isaacs or whoever – talking about the conflict between the Westminster system and the American style of federalism...

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