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...Malcolm Turnbull "We need to have all of our energy being zero-emission." Experience: Environment and Water Minister since Jan. '07 Charismatic republican and investment banker on the political rise - if he retains his marginal Sydney seat. Said after the 1999 republic referendum that monarchist Howard had "broken this nation's heart." Has swiftly mastered a key portfolio but drawn criticism for approving a new pulp mill in Tasmania. Believed to support ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, in contrast to government position...
...referendum, Elizabeth II and her cold fish of a consort, Prince Phillip, toured Australia. The crowds were small and more curious than enthusiastic; the media, polite but indifferent. The romantic, near mystical Queen worship that had surrounded her tour in 1954 was gone forever. Being smarter than the monarchists, Elizabeth II could easily read the signs. She openly acknowledged (and was scrupulously careful not to attack) the possibility of a stable republic in Australia. The current Prime Minister, John Howard, is an obdurate monarchist. But the next in line as head of Howard's conservative Liberal Party, Peter Costello...
...admire. "If we don't have the Queen, whom can we look up to?" was one of the most frequent complaints at referendum time. The thought that in a democracy you don't look up to your superiors, but sideways at your fellow citizens, wasn't much aired in monarchist circles. And Australia has always been short not only of convincing shared ceremonies of national identity but also of shared folk heroes. You can count them on less than two hands. Two are alive--the great cricketer Donald Bradman, now 91, and the swimming champion Dawn Fraser. The veterans...
...Instead, my relatives, my very own civilized, educated, well-traveled relatives, began hedging. "A small number were certainly murdered, but the rest probably died of war-times diseases," said one, a urologist. "The numbers were exaggerated to justify creating a Jewish homeland," said another, a hotel owner. A monarchist housewife: "Were there even six millions Jews in Germany before the war?" A computer science graduate: "I think it bears further historical research...
...moments when the seemingly sparrow-sized Davis holds the 300-seat theater in the palm of her hand. It's spellbinding stuff. No doubt some will find argument with Barker's language (the c-word is used as freely as punctuation) and view of history (he's clearly no monarchist), but they won't see a livelier, more cantankerous production this year. Barker has said that his plays are not histories but mirrors to contemporary society. And one senses that much of his ire was reserved for Margaret Thatcher, whose reforms were transforming Britain at the time this play...