January-Febuary 2011

Volume I Number 1

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Quadrant

January-Febuary 2011 - Volume I Number 1

Letters to the Editor

Ingrid van Beek, Robert McLaughlin, David Elder, Peter Bennet, Peter Gerard, Darrel Killen, Peter Gilet

Culture

The Decline of Reading in an Age of Ignorance

Rob Nugent

The Television and Twitter Brigade

Eduardo de la Fuente

Australia

How Qantas Became the Safest Airline

Geoffrey Luck

Society

How to Choose Better Immigrants

Michael Galak

Why Safe Voluntary Euthanasia is a Myth

Brian Pollard

Politics

The Greens' Agenda, in Their Own Words

Kevin Andrews

Particular Principles and Magic Words

Ray Evans

Foreign Affairs

The Roots of American Despair

Tom Switzer

Economics

The Economics of Hope and Despair

Peter Smith

Health

Big Pharma and the Manufacture of Madness

Dale Atrens

History

The Shameful Neglect of John Lingard

A.G. Evans

Religion

The Origins of the King James Bible

Samantha Grosser

The Religious Impulse of Richard Dawkins

Mike Alder

Philosophy and Ideas

The Priest and the Jester

B.J. Coman

Theatre

Life without the lot

Michael Connor

Literature

A Very Relative Freedom

Malcolm Forbes

The Voice, the Sound

Geoff Page

The Maturing Heroine

Michael Giffin

First Person

Encountering the Otherworld

Sophie Masson

Art

Australia's Gallery World

Patricia Anderson

Chris Raja

Music

Music and Metabolism

Iain Bamforth

Film

There's Life in the Caper Movie

Neil McDonald

Stories

A Young Woman Surrounded by Redbacks

Gary Furnell

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Books

The Great Salesman

Daryl McCann

Ryan

My Life as a Leper

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Kathy Duggan

Le Criquet Gaulois

John Whitworth

Margaret Bradstock

Gary Hotham

Long Phuoc revisited

Margaret Bradstock

John Whitworth

Ashlley Morgan-Shae

Kathy Duggan

Tanka about Pain

Andrew Lansdown

Bert Almon

Robyn Lance

Song of the anti-depressant

Melinda Smith

autistic child ...

Melinda Smith

Cuba Libre; Time

Rod Usher

Sunday Afternoon ...

Jennifer Compton

Gary Hotham

Tobacco and Boies

John Whitworth

View from a bridge ...

Dan Guenther

Rod Usher

Criticism

The Famine that Mao Created

Ted Rule

Look Back with Apprehension

Irina Dunn