Volume LVII Number 5

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Quadrant

May 2013 - Volume LVII Number 5

Letters

Obituary

Margaret Thatcher

John O'Sullivan

Australia

Remaking Australia as a Frontier Society

Mervyn F. Bendle

Camped By a Billabong

David F. Smith

Media

Why the ABC Should Be Privatised

Tom Switzer

Economics

Australia's Prospects in a World of Soaring Debt

Alan Moran

Society

The Easy Moralism of the Adoption Apology

Jeremy Sammut

The Inexorable Expansion of the Welfare Class

Brian Wimborne

Moderate Muslims Are the Problem, Not the Solution

Peter Smith

Aboriginal Child Abuse the Royal Commission Cannot Avoid

Tony Thomas

Higher Education

The Rise and Fall of Our Bureaucratic Universities

Peter Murphy

Environment

How to save the Environment from Green Ideologues

Daryl McCann

Defence

The Decline of American Military Leadership

Michael Evans

The Dismissal

Legal Advice and Political Bias in the Dismissal

John de Meyrick

Labor's Selective Constitutional Conventions

David Smith

The Law

The Economic Case for Reinstating QCs

Stuart Wood

Religion

Provocative Paradoxes

Gary Furnell

Theatre

Un-Astonishing Theatre

Michael Connor

Literature

The Novel as Artwork: Christopher Koch’s Lost Voices

Pauline Farley

The Mouth of Hell

B.J. Coman

First Person

Frank P. English

Film

Les Miserables on Screeen

Neil McDonald

Story

This Most Privileged Madness

Lin van Hek

Books

What Russia Chooses to Forget

Michael Giffen

A Small Town in the Depression

Michael Wilding

Ryan

Aboriginal Questions

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Elizabeth Lewis

Nan Ollerenshaw

Nana Ollerenshaw

Judy Johnson

Leon Trainor

Leon Trainor

Leon Trainor

Leon Trainor

High Water at Lake George

Graham Walker

Peter Skrzynecki

Mali Blues Guitarist

Andrew Lansdown

Andrew Lansdown

Jamie Grant

Schrodinger’s Cat

Dan Guenther

Alan Gould: Two Poems

Alan Gould

Jamie Grant: Two Poems

Jamie Grant

The Dr Seuss That Switched His Voice

Joe Dolce

Joe Dolce

Patrick McCauley

Patrick McCauley

Rothwell on the New Pitjantjatjara Paintings

Patrick McCauley

Patrick McCauley