July-August 2012

Volume LVI Number 7-8

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Quadrant

July-August 2012 - Volume LVI Number 7-8

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Helen J. Wilson, Suzanne Edgar, Robyn Williams, Philip Webb, Matthew Heeney, Tony Minchin, James Guest

Chronicle

Keith Windschuttle

July-August 2012

Environment

The Ruinous Privileges of Renewable Energy

Ray Evans & Tom Quirk

Religion

The Revisionist Case That Muhammad Did Not Exist

Mervyn F. Bendle

Is the Universe a Closed System?

Peter Barclay

Society

The Missionary with 150 Wives

James Franklin

Universities

The War against Human Nature II: Gender Studies (Part 1)

Frank Salter

The War against Human Nature II: Gender Studies (Part 2)

Frank Salter

Politics

The Roots of Green Politics in German Romanticism

Brian Wimborne

History

“Aryan Australia” in the National Curriculum

David S. Bird

The Principled Pragmatist

Daryl McCann

Theatre

Theatrical Haze

Michael Connor

Film

Danish Noir and Australian Light

Neil McDonald

Literature

A Friend of My People at Home: Marcus Clarke and Captain Frederick Standish

Michael Wilding

Art

Albert Tucker and Existentialist Paris

Christopher Heathcote

Health

My Hands Are My Heart

Iain Bamforth

First Person

The Last of the Coastal Liners

Geoffrey Luck

Stories

Bernadette Belej

Light Shines from the Poker Machines

Gary Furnell

Books

The Realm of Ozymandias

Benjamin Jellis

Squanderers and Vandals

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Clueless in Mangoland

Ian McFadyen

Blameless Yet Talented

Philippa Martyr

Seamlessly through the Quatrains

Tim Murphy

Commentary

Our Galactic Significance

John O’Connor

Ryan

Friends in Dusty Places

Peter Ryan

Poetry

Susan Adams

Knute Skinner

The Factoid Multi-Universe

John Whitworth

Jack Johnson and the Mann Act

Joe Dolce

Marie Laveau La Belle Voodooienne

Joe Dolce

A Visit to Cambridge

Peter Hansen

Peter Hansen

The Awful Flanders and Wallonia Train Wreck

Joe Dolce

from Stroke Poems

Aidan Coleman

Dropping Osip Mandelsh’tam

Christopher Nailer

Barbara Fisher

Barbara Fisher

Silver Tussockgrass

Adrienne Eberhard

How Many Poets Does It Change

Joe Dolce

Give Me Little Sugar with My Beer Sylvie

Joe Dolce

John Whitworth

Chris King

Hook, Line and Sinker

Derek Fenton

Greeks Bearing Gifts

Michael Sariban

Knute Skinner

Dog in the Road;

Knute Skinner

Something in the Grass

Knute Skinner