Volume LII Number 6

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Quadrant

June 2008 - Volume LII Number 6

Poetry

Singapore High-Rise Restaurant

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Visiting Ypres Cathedral

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Reactionary Observations at the Pistol Club

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Today Is Shopping Day

Russell Erwin

Debbie Lim

Midday, Kata Tjuta

Debbie Lim

Myra Schneider

John West

The Regeneration of Night

Gary Clark

Jeff Guess

Jeff Guess

John Clare Catches A Scent of Goose Grass in the Grounds of Northhampton Asylum

Jan Hutchison

Jude Aquilina

In Her Fortieth Year

Suzanne Edgar

Suzanne Edgar

A Pew In a House

Russell Erwin

Suzanne Edgar

Jervis Bay Requiem

Peter Skrzynecki

Gary Hotham

Jude Aquilina

Suzanne Edgar

Alan Smith

Peter Kocan

Ryan

Dining at the Greeks

Peter Ryan

Books

There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, by Antony Flew

Dennis O'Keeffe

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, by Laura Tyson Li

Ted Rule

Remembering the Forgotten

Peter Ryan

Stories

In the Course of Duty

Hugh Canham

Story

The Gentleman from the Lotteries Commission

Martin R. Johnson

Literature

Time to Say "Thanks" as Well

Anne Fairbairn

Golding on the Fall

Michael Giffin

Alan Gould

Film

Torturing the Truth

Neil McDonald

Society

Banishing the Men

Patrick McCauley

First Person

The Fibro School by the Swamp

Ron Cox

Universities

The Soft-Marking Syndrome

Malcolm Saunders

Art

Culture Wars in Regional Australia

Douglas Hassall

Theatre

Honk for Shakespeare

Michael Connor

Criticism

The Fine Art of Benefaction

Patricia Anderson

Just Blokes Doing a Job

Robert Murray

Rehabilitating the Convicts

John Izzard

Obituary

An Interesting Career to Follow

Geoffrey Gray

Devine

Doc Martin, Culture Warrior

Frank Devine

History

The Dangers of Ethnic Nationalism

Patrick Morgan

Media

Can We Trust the ABC?

Geoffrey Luck

Politics

A Depressing New Agenda for Aboriginal Politics

Keith Windschuttle

How Good was Howard?

Getting the Schools Back to Basics

Kevin Donnelly

Regulation and the Regulatory Burden

Chris Berg

Environment

The Abused Science of Climate Change

Sev Sternhell

The Chilling Costs of Climate Catastrophism

Ray Evans

Letters

Reforming Defence

Women in Christopher Koch's Novels

I am Totally Innocent

What's Wrong with AD

Australians in the War

Pius XII and the Jews

The Separation of Powers