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Tom Gilling

Project RAINFALL: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling

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October 2019, no. 415
Alison Broinowski reviews 'Project RAINFALL: The Secret History of Pine Gap' by Tom Gilling

Since the 1960s, US military bases have continuously occupied Australian territory, with the permission of successive governments. Of the original sites, the missile-launch tracker Nurrungar is closed and North West Cape no longer communicates with US nuclear submarines, but it has since gained space surveillance and military signals intelligence functions. Pine Gap ...

Sydney Noir edited by John Dale

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January-February 2019, no. 408
Chris Flynn reviews 'Sydney Noir' edited by John Dale

In 2004, New York-based publisher Akashic Books released Brooklyn Noir, a collection of short fiction written under a specific brief. Stories had to be set in that neighbourhood and feature noir themes: simmering familial revenge, cheating and double-crossing, sexual betrayal, domestic discord, murderous trysts, down-at-heel detectives ...

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