Recently added articles from Quadrant:
Growth, jobs and prosperity: economic progress under the Howard government.(How Good Was Howard?)(Company overview)
Jan 01, 2009; ... WHEN THE EDITOR of Quadrant initiated, in March 2008, "a series of articles that will critically appraise the eleven and a half years of the government of John Howard", he said that "the intention of the series is both to look back on the Howard era and assess its place in history, and to ...
Not thrilled.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... SIR: It's too bad most of the little people who watch films don't have a "favourite spook" in the form of a former ASIS officer to consult and rely on when viewing politically-oriented military films like Body of Lies. Neil McDonald (November 2008) gleefully reviews this film relegating it ...
Who is indigenous?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... SIR: I enjoyed Helen Hughes' splendid article, "Who Are Indigenous Australians?" (November 2008). Though it is pedantic of me, and I hope Helen forgives me, I feel obliged to challenge two things: first, her offhand dismissal of the universal meaning of the word indigenous; and second, the ...
A Last Message from Your Leaders.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> A LAST MESSAGE FROM YOUR LEADERS We have made ourselves shelters, deep underground shelters One hundred and fifty feet down,Each the size of a house, and, at thirty-three thousand, This counts as a fairly large town.What we've got is an Oxford, an ...
Toulouse-Lautrec.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> TOULOUSE-LAUTREC I bought discarded love for fifty cents:An art book in a pile, Toulouse-Lautrec(Whose work I've always liked); the cover artAn ageing bright-eyed whore at des Moulins.Inside, just by the pencilled price, I read:"When I saw this, I felt ...