July-August 2009

Volume LIII Number 7-8

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Quadrant

July-August 2009 - Volume LIII Number 7-8

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Jeffrey Grey, Peter Stanley, John Dorman, Murray Mitchell, G.J. Tolhurst, Rob Turnbull

History

The Assault on Anzac

Mervyn F. Bendle

The Sudden Death of Imperial Guilt

George Watson

Environment

The Lessons of Black Saturday

Ray Evans

Science

Cloning the Thylacine

Allen Greer

Philosophy and Ideas

Science and Its Limits

D.M. Armstrong

Economics

What Would Keynes Say Now?

P.D. Jonson

The Neo-Socialism of the Twenty-First Century

Steven Kates

Theatre

David Williamson by Mrs Williamson

Michael Connor

Australia

A Postcard from the Kimberley

Kayt Davies

The Monster at the End of the Book

David Free

Religion

Paine, Darwin, and Cruel and Capricious Gods

Tom Frame

Taking Pascal's Wager

Peter Coleman

Education

The Politics of School Choice

Kevin Donnelly

Politics

Rudd, Blair, and Reform of the Public Sector

John McDonnell

First Person

Recollections of a Rural Childhood

Giles Auty

Film

Poetry in the Movies

John Izzard

Stories

In the High Cab

Alan Gould

Veronica's Robe de Chambre

Anamaria Beligan

Bloody Diamonds

John Eppel

Libby Sommer

Books

Religions in Decline and in the Ascendant

Patrick Morgan

The Bibliographer as Detective

Milton Osborne

Jettisoning John Calvin

Robert Murray

How the Territory Found Its Feet

Peter Ryan

The British Noteworthy

Mark McGinness

The Serene Poet of Painting

Douglas Hassall

Landscapes with Figures

Hal Colebatch

Franciscan Connections

Michael Giffin

Ryan

Peter Ryan

Poetry

I am a Woman; Heartbreak Hotel

John Whitworth

Andrew Lansdown

Questions of Security

Bruce Dawe

Barbara Fisher

John Whitworth;

Rod Usher

Some Consolation

Andrew Lansdown

Rod Usher

Andrew Lansdown

Barbara Fisher

Desorientation a Deux

Graeme Hetherington

Susanna Who Plays Clarinet

Rod Usher