Volume LV Number 12

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Quadrant

December 2011 - Volume LV Number 12

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Greg Buchanan, Geoff Holt, Bill James, George Nikolic, Bernard d’Abrera, Gregory Haines, Chris Curtis, Tony Hassall, John de Meyrick, David Smith, T. Varjavandi

Chronicle

Keith Windschuttle

November 2011

Politics

The Geo-Political Case for a Big Australia

Patrick Morgan

The Politics of Demography and the Census

Michael Kile

Julia Gillard, Henry V and True Leadership

Rob Nugent

The Millennial Psychosis

Daryl McCann

Literature

How to Write a Political Novel

Nicholas Hasluck

“Stories Don’t Lie if Left to Themselves”

Gary Furnell

History

Thomas Keneally, Starving for Evidence

Andrew Roberts

Winchester and the Authorised Version

Christopher Dawson

“Japan Calling”: An Australian Quisling

David Bird

Part I: Why Women Really Got the Vote

Jeremy Sammut

Part II: Why Women Really Got the Vote

Jeremy Sammut

Communism

A Prosperous Communist Abroad

Alan Fewster

The Lamp of Illusion

Gordon Adler

Society

The Winter Solstice and Our Place in the Cosmos

Paul Monk

A Liberal Response to the Decline of Marriage

Barry Maley

Education

On Educational Disadvantage

Geoffrey Partington

Language

Moral Absolutes and the Multiplicity of Languages

Anna Wierzbicka

Theatre

Playing for Laughs

Michael Connor

Film

Allusion and Delusion

Neil McDonald

First Person

An Aid Worker in Vukovar

Mishka Gora

Secrets of the Tea Country

Tina Faulk

Art

Walking Away from Giants

Chad Swanson

Stories

Wayne Strudwick

R.J. Armstrong

Criticism

Ancient Origins of the Anglosphere

Robert Murray

Room for Fetishes

Iain Bamforth

What Poetry Is Really About

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Commentary

Helping to Destroy the Family

Michael Galak

Ryan

Peter Ryan

Poetry

J.R. McRae

Sheryl Persson

Janine Fraser

God–Satan Dialogue

Bruce Dawe

Border Security

Bruce Dawe

Bruce Dawe

The Big Picture

Russell Erwin

Returning for a Minor Operation

Russell Erwin

Christine Paice

John Foulcher

Hospital Records

Russell Erwin

Driving through Moss Vale, late

Russell Erwin

The Musical Offering

Margaret Harvey

Night on the Lake

Margaret Harvey

Margaret Harvey

Ouyang Yu

Grandma’s house in war-torn NSW

Margaret Harvey

Fisherman, Busselton Jetty

Andrew Lansdown

Installation 001

Ouyang Yu