Volume LII Number 9

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Quadrant

September 2008 - Volume LII Number 9

Australia

Aboriginal Employment and the CDEP

John Stone

The Australian Legend Fifty Years On

Baron Alder

Poetry

Carole Wilkins

Looking, but not too hard

Maggie Wallis

Humpback Whales

Dan Guenther

Meditations after the Supernova

Dan Guenther

Dan Guenther

Philippa Martyr

Philippa Martyr

Philippa Martyr

Double Standard

Shane McCauley

Shane McCauley

Shane McCauley

How Music is Made

Elizabeth Smither

Cole Dresses his Mother

Elizabeth Smither

Leonski's Grave

John Stephenson

Myra Schneider

Myra Schneider

They've Changed the Guards

Olivia Byard

Olivia Byard

J.R. McRae

J.R. McRae

Universities

Hijacking Terrorism Studies

Mervyn F. Bendle

Culture

Wrong from First to Last

Michael Warby

Religion

Religion in a Secular Society

Nicholas Tonti-Filippini

Criticism

Some Hollywood Good Guys

George Thomas

Shots Fired by Sam Francis

Peter Kocan

Hatred in the Balkans

Neil McDonald

Patricia Anderson

On Burchett by Tibor Meray

Patrick Morgan

Health

Stealing Doctors from the Poor

Clare Stride

Education

The Dubious Quest for a National Curriculum

Kevin Donnelly

Environment

Ray Evans

Our New Established Religion

Ian McFadyen

Art

Jeffrey Smart and the Voyage to Europe

Ian Marsh

First Person

Hell, Not Heaven

Sophie Masson

The Whirligig of Time

Peter Coleman

Sport

Australian Rules Football as Secret Men's Business

Patrick McCauley

The Constitution

Deakin and the Centralising Tendency

Walter Sofronoff

Books

The Other Side of Sunset: Memories of One of the Last True Pioneer Settlements in Victoria, by Campbell Curtis

Peter Ryan

A Political Rake's Progress by John Hyde

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Poems 1980-2008 by Jan Owen

Penelope Nelson

Judaism in Transition 175 BCE to 150 CE: Christian and Jewish Perspectives, edited by James S. McLaren

Robert Murray

Literature

Man of the World

Jack Sexton

Tribute

One Word of Truth Shall Outweigh the Whole World

B.J. Coman

Story

Elwood and Morton

Jennifer Compton

Ryan

Peter Ryan

Theatre

On David Williamson

Michael Connor

Devine

The Democracy Rock

Frank Devine

How Good was Howard?

Tony Abbot