Volume LIII Number 4

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Quadrant

April 2009 - Volume LIII Number 4

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Trevor Sykes, Deirdre Therese Little, and Hal G.P. Colebatch

Defence

How to Win in Afghanistan

Justin Kelly

Environment

A New Policy Direction for Climate Change

Bob Carter

Green Myths About Australian Farming

David F. Smith

Economics

All the World's a Playstation

Tom Quirk

Politics

Reflections of a Neo-Liberal

Steven Kates

Kevin Rudd as Philosopher-Politician

Geoffrey Luck

Howard

John Howard's Pro-American Trade Legacy

Alan Oxley

Tribute

Peter Howson I: Ray Evans II: Colin Balmer III: Tony Abbott

Ray Evans, Colin Balmer, Tony Abbott

History

George Bush and History's Croakers

Claudio Veliz

On Cinema's "Humanisation" of Hitler

Paul Monk

Harry G. Gelber

The Biases of Genocide Studies (Part II)

William D. Rubinstein

The Beersheba Photograph

Neil McDonald

Theatre

The mesmerising Guy Pearce

Michael Connor

Art

Peter Coleman

Two European Refugees in Melbourne

Douglas Hassall

First Person

Some Kind of Blues

A.S. Patric

Film

A New White Knight

Neil McDonald

Stories

Revenue Raising

Michael Wilding

Choosing to Forget

Margaret Barbalet

Books

Things as They Are, and Were

Stephen McInerney

Fossick to Tracky Daks

Robert Murray

A Christian in Politics

Stephen Holt

George Thomas

Ryan

A Big Hug from the Prime Minister

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Sheryl Persson

The October Tree; Stingrays

Shane McCauley

Sylvia's Verse; Right Thinking; A Nearly Ballade of Poetic Misery

John Whitworth

I Go Cold with the Memory of It; Green Light

Knute Skinner

The Leavings; Doing the Laundry; Lament of the Ageing Bird-watcher

Suzanne Edgar

Autistic Acrostic

Melinda Smith

The Right Angle

Knute Skinner

Patrick Walsh

John Whitworth

A Question for God

Knute Skinner

Slightly Grubby (Melbourne)

Ashlley Morgan-Shae

Epitaph for John Mortimer

Hal G. P. Colebatch

Ashlley Morgan-Shae

For Robert Taylor

Graeme Hetherington

The Course of Human Endeavor

Patrick Walsh

Found Poem at Port Arthur

Leon Shann

Criticism

Buying for the Gallery

Patricia Anderson