January-February 2009

Volume LIII Number 1-2

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Quadrant

January-February 2009 - Volume LIII Number 1-2

Environment

The Contradictions of the Garnaut Report

Tim Curtin

Contradictions in the Garnaut Report (ii)

Tim Curtin

Howard

Growth, Jobs, and Prosperity

John Stone

Journalism

Life on the Crooked Mile

Bill Harcourt

Television

Dreaming and Nightmares in Central Australia

Peter Vallee

Defence

War and the City in the New Urban Century

Michael Evans

A Soldier's View of the Iraq War

Michael O'Connor

Art

Seeing and Not Seeing

Patricia Anderson

Blue Poles, Modernism and the Tory Philosophy

Baron Alder

Arguments Against Abstraction

Giles Auty

Australia

Back to Coombs, or Forward?

Peter Howson

Devine

Winston Churchill, Pommy Bastard

Frank Devine

Law

A Place for Rhetoric

J.J. Spigelman

Science

Scare Campaigns and Science Reporting

Sharon Gould

Prenatal Diagnosis - Benefit or Betrayal?

Deirdre Therese Little

Theatre

The Day I Turned Left

Michael Connor

First Person

Saigon as War Loomed

Bern Brent

Memories of Catholic Schooldays

Paul Chandler

Society

The Miser's Pensioner

John Izzard

Literature

Why Do You Write for Children?

Sophie Masson

Michael Giffin

Film

Pale Imitations

Neil McDonald

Stories

Leon Trainor

Good Luck, Lads

Alan Gould

Books

What If? By Jeremy Black

Dennis O'Keeffe

The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Iain Bamforth

Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson

Philippa Martyr

A Family History of Smoking by Andrew Riemer

Penelope Nelson

Ryan

Hollow Man of Yesterday

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Toulouse-Lautrec

Philippa Martyr

A Last Message from Your Leaders; Respected Poet

John Whitworth

Send Me Jenny Agutter

Peter Kocan

Learning Portuguese

Jan Owen

Masters Leech, Swallow, Bonesuck and Blind John

John Whitworth

Terrorism Studies

Robert Frenkel

Australian Flag Centenary Celebrations

Hal G. P. Colebatch

The Two Horsemen

Peter Kocan

Philippa Martyr

Jim's Monologue

Geoff Page

Peter Kocan

Jan Owen

The Threepenny Kowhai Stamp Brooch

Jennifer Compton

Philippa Martyr

Philippa Martyr