Quadrant Online, July 4, 2009
Frank Devine was an indomitable cavalier. A bon vivant who loved long lunches, he was a conviction journalist whose religious faith was central to his life. He used to pray privately at work: “Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us.”
His politics were conservative. (He once supported E.G.Whitlam -- in 1972 -- but not for long.) A family man, his last published essay, in the May Quadrant, honours his wife Jacqueline, his three children, and his fifty years of marriage.
He was also a loyal friend: mourners at the funeral of Paddy McGuinness will not forget the sight of Devine weeping as he delivered his tribute to his old atheist friend.
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Quadrant Voices, July 2009
James Franklin on What Science Knows
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In memoriam
Vale Frank Devine
Quadrant, July 3, 2009
Quadrant offers its condolences to the family of our much loved friend and contributor Frank Devine.
Peter Coleman remembers the life of the marvellous Frank. More...
Quadrant Opinion
Answering Fielding’s questions
Doomed Planet, June 29, 2009
Senator Steve Fielding asked Minister Penny Wong three questions about climate change - and was mocked for doing so. The government has replied, and now four scientists (Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks and William Kininmonth) have assessed that reply. More… 
James Franklin’s new book
QED, June 29, 2009
What Science Knows will not please the enemies of science, whose willful misunderstandings of scientific method and the relation of evidence to conclusions Franklin mercilessly exposes. More…
“Harder to kill than a vampire”
QED, June 30, 2009
Who would have thought that US feminist scholarship and academic Australian history writing have so much bad stuff in common? More…
Culture catcher
QED, June 29, 2009
“The degradation of society by the cult of celebrity may be the one subject on which both liberals and conservatives can agree.” More…
“My genes made me do it”
Bill Muehlenberg, June 30, 2009
The concept of personal responsibility has taken a battering lately. People are quite happy to blame anyone and anything other than themselves for their behaviour and actions. We are happy to pass the buck and shift the blame instead of taking ownership of what we do. More…
Mark Steyn writes an obituary
QED, June 29, 2009
I remember running into the critic John Simon after some terrible musical: “I enjoyed one couplet,” he said. “‘When did Michael Jackson/Become Anglo-Saxon?’” More…
Quadrant TV
"He's Barack Obama"
“He’s Phillip Adams” “He’s Robert Manne”
Doomed Planet
Rudd servants or public servants?
Des Moore, June 29, 2009
The timing and framing of this first survey of environmental views and behaviour is not inconsistent with the apparently increasing tendency of the public service to serve the interests of the government rather than the wider national interest. More…
Science without logic
Joanne Nova, June 29, 2009
It all sounds impressive, but The Climate listens to none of these. We could talk data instead - glaciers have been melting and sea level rising at about the same rate since 1800. Napoleon didn’t have SUV’s yet the planet has warmed. Dang. Something was warming the planet 200 years ago and we don’t know what it was, yet we kid ourselves that We Understand The Climate. More…
From The New City Journal
Doomed Planet, June 29, 2009
Infused with moral fervour, green journalism often strays from the path of accuracy. In the era of climate change, it seems, environmental ends justify the journalistic means, while hyperbole, distortion and selective quoting define a virtual house-style of green reporting. More…
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