On Helen Garner by Sean O'Beirne evidence-based-policy noise as music and the

noise as music and the conditions and conventions of conceptual art

He also raises the question of whether Australia's contemporary treatment of refugees has anything in common with the sane and decent policies that have characterised the better moments in our history

Marr finds strange patterns that will recur: a tendency to chaos

and the University of Melbourne

Andrew Charlton

On Helen Garner by Sean O'Beirne evidence-based-policy noise as music and theWhat I love in Helen Garners writing is a particular kind of closeness to self, the good, greedy, mistaken, emotional, fierce, sceptical, changing and disrupting self. Garner makes so much from what seems to be just her individual sense, individual observation rather than anything made by and for the group. But I also love the beautiful strong contradiction in her work: shes always fighting to come back enough, as well, to find enough that can stop