A Case for Clemency Beamish Murder Trial Review
Professor Brett argues in an MAP booklet that the 1964 Beamish retrial, linked to the Brewer murder, was flawed. He questions evidence standards, calls for executive clemency, and urges Western Australia to pardon Beamish and consider compensation, while critiquing High Court reluctance to overhaul criminal trials.
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Beamish
Brewer
Tnl
Praon
Western Australia
Albert Welll
Court of Criminal Appeal
Jackson
Virtue
D'Arcy TL
High Court of Australia
Fiic Edgar Cooke
Perth
Murden
Cooke
Mins Brewer
Cour of Criminal Appeal
Wolf CL
Virtue Jr
High Court
Peer Breit
University of Melbourne
Brett
University of Western Australia
Feye
Teo
Albert Wolf
Sir Isaac Isaacs
Owen Dixon
Lowe in Australia ILLIBERAL LIBERAL: Lowe in New South Wales 1842 1550
Ruth Knight analyzes Robert Lowe later Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Sherbrooke in Australia during a formative era for representative government. The biography traces Lowe's rise amid debt, political clashes with Wentworth Gipps and others, and his belief in individualism and laissez faire. Knight praises the lively, lucid account.
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Robert Lowe
New South Wales
Ruth Knight
Melbourne University Press
Gladstone
Lord Sherbrooke
Democrats
Australia
Lowe
Sydney
Legislative Council
Wentworth A
Windeyer
Gipps
Wentworth
U Se
Mrs Knight
Broughton
Knight
The Australian Language Second Edition review
A lengthy critique of S J Baker's second edition of The Australian Language. It argues the revision tripled the size without addressing core methodological flaws and repeats old errors. It notes omitted sources, dated terms, and questionable lexicography while acknowledging the work's historical value and influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Baker
Currawong
Morrin
Australia
Kar Baker
Sydney
Baker
Morr
Mr Baker
Mathews
Bush
Pew
Ita
Godfrey Miller in Cosmos Edited by Henshaw at Darlinghurst Galleries
Cosmos presents Godfrey Miller with scholarly yet uneven notes by John Henshaw. Editor Pieter Bellew and publisher details accompany a lavish design by Strachan, Leigh, and Owen. The text questions Miller’s genius while praising the art and layout, noting two dozen plates and strong visual themes despite critical gaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Godfrey Miller
John Henshaw
Darlinghurst
Godfrey Clive Miller
Wellington
New Zealand
Pieter Bellew
Peter Bellew
Unesco
Miller
Dr Miller
Controversial Novel Under Censorship Review
The Commonwealth Censorship Board holds proofs of In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinezev. Critics in the UK, USA and Canada praise the work, published in Britain last week, with Australia expected to import in September. The novel portrays a Budapest 1956 escape to America and satirizes ageist views about women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth Censorship Board
USA
Canada
Stephen Vizinezev
Britain
Australia
Budapest
America
Talking of Books Struggles For the North by J H Kelly
A review listing new Australian titles with critique of Struggle for the North by J H Kelly and other works. Notes on Crick’s Period of Adjustment, Cox’s Are Pigs People, Lindall’s Northward the Coast, and poems by Hicham e e, Thiele, and Williams. Includes contact details for the Education Department.
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J. H. Kelly
Australia
Kelly
Seth
D. H. Crick
Mary Gilmore
Harry Cox
Nyorie Bungey
Hilarius
Edward Lindall
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Dept of Law
ANU
Peter Brett
Melbourne
Chie
Sutherland Street
Paddington
Darlinghurst Gallenes
By L. F. Fitzhardinge
Burt
Oxford
Antipodes
Bakerloo
Wynyard
Tynan
Ibsen
Shaw
Godot
Hamlet
England
Cosmos
Odfrey Miller
David Strachan
S. T. Leigh and Co
Stanley Owen and Sons Pty Ltd
Pies Pnone
Lorn Road
Queanbeyan
Charles Hicham
The
Bulletin
Chris Eee
Martin
Colin Thiele
Garema Viece
Canberra
Education Department
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