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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Shane Cahill

Shane Cahill has held a range of senior positions in public relations and communications and is working on a study of Japanese influence in Australia from 1901 to 1945. He has a Master of Arts in History from the University of Melbourne for his thesis The Friendly Games: The Melbourne Olympic Games in Australian Culture 1946-1956.

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Published in Overland Issue 189 Summer 2007 · Politics

'This fascist mob'

Shane Cahill

"Fascism rears its head." That was the caption the Commonwealth Security Service (CSS) - the precursor to ASIO - placed on a clipping from Smith's Weekly dated 27 March 1943. The article discussed the Institute of Public Affairs, recently convened by leaders of business and industry and underwritten by the Collins House group of mining companies.