Ebook: My Country: Stories, Essays and Speeches

An anthology of David Marr's powerful ruminations on art, religion, sex, censorship and the law, his unflinching profiles of party leaders and forensic accounts of social and political controversy.;Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Personal Details -- Shame and forgiveness -- Holes in the road -- Send down the rain -- The image of man -- Hanging onto the facts -- My marriage was a house of cards -- Life and death -- Whitlam -- 1975 dismissal diary -- The women in John Kerr's life -- The wreckage left behind -- Fraser's first cabinet meeting -- Edward Gough Whitlam shuffles off his mortal coil -- Political History -- Franz Ferdinand and the guns of Narromine -- The night Ben Chifley died -- John Howard's enterprising father -- Gorton's last secrets -- With Charles and Di in the desert -- Sydney, the irresistible city -- Bob Carr holds the fort -- Arts and Artists -- Harry Seidler vs Patrick Cook -- A mistress with the clippers -- Stanley Hawes: an honourable man a long way from Home -- Lutyens fights the last battle of the Somme -- Hill End: hard country, good painting -- Mr Mitchell's library -- MONA: art in the dark -- Margaret Tuckson: the widow and the paintings -- Skin in the Game -- Cairns, 1974 -- The betrayal of the hopes of 1967 -- John Howard, faith and race -- The lingering fear of blacks -- Australia Under Howard -- Australian politics in a nutshell -- Pauline slays Tasmania -- Brian Harradine's lunch -- Abbott & Costello vs Ellis -- Australia: so British underneath -- Jones, Laws and cash for comment -- The Queen makes a comeback -- Australia's Olympic spirit -- Baying for border protection -- Beazley's last stand -- Arne Rinnan, sailor -- Pink Pages -- A night out at the Cross -- Bigots in the name of Christ -- Conigrave's candour -- Myths and lessons of Stonewall -- A politician in the steam -- The business model of the faiths -- Modern Warfare -- A note on the language -- Manning Clark, Soviet spy -- Saving the nation from Salò -- What's Left these days? -- A common humanity.