Volume LIV Number 10

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Quadrant

October 2010 - Volume LIV Number 10

Letters to the Editor

Lance Eccles, David Elder, Bill James, Peter Gerard, Paul Monk, Owen Richards, Geoffrey Partington, Sarah Fanning

Western Civilisation

The Big State and the Servile Mind

Claudio Veliz

When Ideology Displaces Reason

David Martin Jones

If God Goes, the West Goes

Ray Evans

Politics

Niccolò Machiavelli Counsels Julia, Kevin and Tony

Geoffrey Luck

The Left Rewrites Its History on Refugees

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Foreign Affairs

Corruption and Press Freedom in South Africa

Jane Fraser

The Arab Betrayal of the Palestinians

Paul Monk

History

The Great Myth of Britain's "Great Betrayal"

Nigel Davies

They Did Not Come Alone

David Flint

The Imperial Constraint on Lachlan Macquarie

J.J. Spigelman

The Curious Case of Commissioner Bigge's Will

Pauline Conolly

Obituary

Sir Bruce Williams

I. Marie Bashir II. Noel Hush

First Person

Among the Quick and the Dead in East Timor, 1975

John Whitehall

Dancing on the Far South Coast

Laurie Hergenhan

Driving Mr Nelson

Christopher Raja

Philosophy & Ideas

On the Good Life

Iain Bamforth

Theatre

Election Dramas

Michael Connor

Art

Paths to Abstraction

Patricia Anderson

Travel

A Study Tour of Israel

Michael Giffin

Film

An Epic of Ideas

Neil McDonald

Stories

Alex O'Sullivan

Paul Blake

Ryan

Betraying Ourselves

Peter Ryan

Poetry

The Canonization; Inspecting the Rivermouth

Les Murray;

Mornington Peninsula

J.R. McRae

Down on Reddall Parade

Christine Paice

Bruce Dawe

Nocturne; A Premonition

David Chandler

Geoff Page

Homage to Satie

David Chandler

Omonia Square, Athens

Graeme Hetherington

Wendy Videlock

Olivia Byard

Olivia Byard

The Green Pearl

Janine Fraser

Drowning on a Regular Basis

Christine Paice

Eagle Owl Caged

Olivia Byard

Royal Albatross

Janine Fraser

Education

Self-Control, the Neglected Key to Learning

Judy Stove

The Case for Abolishing Government Schools

Michael Warby

The New Politics of Education

Alan Barcan