Volume LV Number 10

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Quadrant

October 2011 - Volume LV Number 10

Letters

Letters to the Editor

David Smith, James Litchfield, David Daintree, Hector Macdonald, John Furedy, Alan Robson, Mick Koster, M. Gordon, Hal Colebatch

Chronicle

Keith Windschuttle

October, 2011

Economics

The Political Potential of the Global Debt Crisis

Peter Smith

Politics

Government by Control Freaks

Patrick Morgan

A Father’s Letters

Guy Green

The Opium of Terry Eagleton

Daryl McCann

Literature

Whatever Happened to Australian Literature in the Universities?

Tony Hassall

Law

Until the High Court Otherwise Provides

James Allan

Why the Governor-General is Australia’s Head of State

David Smith

Society

Adoption is Better than Abortion

Kevin McGovern

Religion

The Greens’ Threat to Religious Freedom

Greg Smith

The Comforting Myth of the Heroic Unbeliever

Andrew Ross Errington

First Person

In the Tigers’ Lair

John Whitehall

Philosophy and Ideas

Learning to See the Gorilla

Paul Monk

Theatre

The Presbyterian Musical

Michael Connor

Criticism

Modern Opera’s Literary Success Story

Michael Halliwell

How Culture Wars Threaten Ethics and Religion

Douglas Hassall

Hardy Plant, Tolerates Danger

Irina Dunn

The African Obamas

Robert Murray

Music

Towards an Australian Art-Music Canon

Joel Crotty

The Earl of Harewood

Christopher Dawson

Health

Let’s Talk About Dying

Michael Giffin

Film

An Epic of the Civil War

Neil McDonald

Story

Douglas Fry

Books

Opening Life’s Windows

Peter Coleman

Ryan

Ill Winds from Bloated Universities

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Four poems by Charles Baudelaire

Jan Owen

Alan Gould

Keeble’s Bush

Jennifer Compton

Gaia the Goddess

John Whitworth

John Whitworth

Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Skrzynecki

Wish list for autistic primary schooler

Melinda Smith

Melinda Smith

Roadside Memorials

Melinda Smith

Hip Replacement

Ashlley Morgan-Shae

Shell Crab Haiku

Andrew Lansdown