Volume LIII Number 12

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Quadrant

December 2008 - Volume LIII Number 12

Education

Chairman Rudd's Education Revolution

Kevin Donnelly

History

Why Menzies Still Matters

Gerard Henderson

Historical Revision versus Holocaust Denial

William D. Rubinstein

Clunes 1873 - The Uprising That Wasn't

Christopher Heathcote

The Photograph of the Charge at Beersheba

Neil McDonald

Society

Wadeye: Failed State as Cultural Triumph

Patrick McCauley

Intellectuals

Terrorism and the Rise of Radical Orthodoxy

Mervyn F. Bendle

Politics

Why We Need to Revive Federalism

Henry Ergas

On Being a Co-Author

Peter Coleman

Devine

Trying On a New Persona

Frank Devine

Literature

On the Reading of Books

Geoffrey Partington

The Wag n' Bietjie Warrior

Derek Fenton

Telling It Like It Wasn't

Donat Gallagher

Stories

Valerie Murray

Libby Sommer

John Eppel

Theatre

On the importance of being Kosky

Michael Connor

First Person

The Friendly Spy Who Died Alone

Colin Fraser

Film

Waugh Turned Upside-Down

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Ryan

The Power of the Dog

Peter Ryan

Books

Unfinished Buisness by David Love

Peter Day

Robert Helpmann by Anna Bemrose

Fred Blanks

Beyond Awkening by Ian McFarlane

John Izzard

Ratzinger's Faith by Tracey Rowland

Jack Snelling

The Russian Master

George Thomas

Poetry

Henri Rousseau Meets Frank O'Hara

Eddie Gibbons

Christmas in Gawler

Aidan Coleman

A Certain Sort of Dog

Geoff Page

Pantoum of the Opera

Eddie Gibbons

After Chernobyl

Jean Frances

Geoff Page

The Housekeeper; From a Dream; Sirens

Russell Erwin

John West

The Downside of Knowing a Poet

Eddie Gibbons

from Huntingdonshire Elegies; Elgar

John Greening

John Greening

Aidan Coleman

Even the Weather

K.Cairns

Achondroplastic; At the Party

Jean Frances

Art

What is Art? The Henson Fallout

Donald Richardson

Hirst, Henson and Hype

Giles Auty

Damien Hirst and the Art of Promotion

Patricia Anderson