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The political assassination of Kevin Rudd will fascinate for a long time to come. As with Duncan’s murder in Shakespeare’s play it was done, as Lady Macbeth cautioned, under ‘the blanket of the dark’, literally the night of 23–24 June 2010. The assassins heeded Macbeth’s advice: ‘if it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.’ And as in Macbeth, the assassins were in the shadow of the throne. Even the old king approved: Bob Hawke, himself deposed in 1991, recognised at last that the removal of a Labor prime minister is sometimes necessary.
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by David Goodman •
A Merciless Place: The lost story of Britain’s convict disaster in Africa and how it led to the settlement of Australia by Emma Christopher
by Norman Etherington •
Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1 edited by David Brooks and Elizabeth McMahon
by Simon West •
The Master: The life and work of Edward H. Sugden edited by Renate Howe
by John Rickard •
Australia Dances: Creating Australian dance 1945–1965 edited by Alan Brissenden and Keith Glennon
by David Tissiman •