Volume LIII Number 12

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Quadrant

December 2009 - Volume LIII Number 12

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

David F. Smith, Anne Henderson, Des Moore, Neil McDonald, Frank Pulsford, Stuart Godfrey

Politics

The Origins of the Crisis in Immigration Policy

John Stone

Foreign Affairs

The Travails of the New South Africa

Andrew Kenny

Literature

What's Wrong with Australian Fiction?

David Free

Hanging On to the Bitter End

Jack Robertson

Philosophy and Ideas

Mervyn F. Bendle

The Return of Ayn Rand

John Dawson

History

A Groggy History

John Izzard

David Bird

In God We Now Agree

Robert Murray

Theatre

Heroic acting in the stalls

Michael Connor

Science

How True Was Freud?

Rafe Champion

Economics

The Limits to State Regulation

Des Moore

Economics and Socialism Don't Mix

Peter Smith

Art

The New Frontier of Modern Art

Chad Swanson

The Realm of Visible Creation

Douglas Hassall

First Person

Hushes and Varying Lights

David Bennett

Suddenly I'm Not an Australian

Tina Faulk

Society

The Language of "Bullying" and "Harassment"

Anna Wierzbicka

Film

Neil McDonald

Story

Sophie Masson

Books

And So Much More...

David Askew

On Her Way Rejoicing

Michael Giffin

Tolkien's Darkest Work

Hal G. P. Colebatch

Ryan

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Leon Trainor

Le Vieil Homme Assis

Myra Schneider

Annus Mirabilis Reversed

Jamie Grant

Requiem for Alexander Buzo

Jamie Grant

Summer in a Time of War

Jamie Grant

The Composition Hut

Myra Schneider

Myra Schneider

Andrew Lansdown

Myra Schneider

Anna Buck

Todd Hardy

Last Rite for a White

Derek Fenton

A Return Visit to Mount Darwin

Derek Fenton

The First Drummer Boy of Xmas

Jennifer Compton