Recently added articles from Quadrant:
Garnaut and climate change.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Hill, Richard ... SIR: Ray Evans' article "The Chilling Costs of Climate Catastrophism" (June 2008) was quite disappointing. I am disturbed about his criticism of Ross Garnaut. Evans criticises Garnaut, as a policy adviser, for using the IPCC report as a source. How could Garnaut do anything else? Even ...
The Soft-Marking Syndrome.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Stoffel, Hans-Peter ... SIR: "The Soft-Marking Syndrome" by Malcolm Saunders (June 2008) is an excellent article. It sums up what most of us have been talking about, once we had left the university (often early)! Hans-Peter Stoffel, Murray's Bay, New Zealand. SIR: While Professor Saunders' ...
Defining Gods into existence.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Arnold, Peter ... SIR: Oh dear! They're at it again--those clever Christian philosophers defining their God into existence (Dennis O'Keeffe reviewing Antony Flew, June 2008). That argument is as dead as Anselm himself. As for our brains being hardwired to believe in a god of one sort or another, ...
Can science disprove God?(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Sullivan, Lucy ... SIR: For all their scientific hubris and triumphalism, the reasoning of Dawkins and Co falls into the theoretical trap that hindered the development of psychology as a science, when it emerged from the dead-end of nineteenth-century Structuralism and embraced Behaviourism as a solution to ...
The real Samoa.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Reid, Mark ... SIR: Re John Whitworth's poem about Samoa (May 2008). This nonsense about Samoan women is all Herman Melville's fault! In his novel Oomoo, he created the myth of the Polynesian maiden as a fantastic sexual being, an image that somehow resonated with the puritanical culture of the United ...
The new carthage?(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Ward, J. ... SIR: I enjoyed Dr Bendle's absorbing commentary (May 2008) which well illustrates the enduring fascination of the Roman empire's rise and demise. The apparent contention of Cullen Murphy's The New Rome? that US military power is increasingly reliant on mercenaries seems dubious. ...
Reforming defence.(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Donovan, John ... SIR: I write to thank Matthew French for his commentary (June 2008) on my article "Reforming Defence" (April 2008). Matthew's rank was not given, so I hope he will forgive my informality in using his first name. I suspect that he and I are actually closer in our views than first glance at ...
What we achieved in Iraq.(Defence)
Jul 01, 2008; Nelson, Brendan ... ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, the world changed. It changed irrevocably for many people throughout the world and for none more so than the citizens of the USA when 3000 innocent civilians were murdered in a terrorist attack on New York and Washington. Within a few days, Prime Minister John ...
The Burning Fiery Furnace.(Poem)
Jul 01, 2008 ... <Pre> THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE It isn't what you know, it's who you know.If who you know says go you gotta go. You gotta go, you gotta get a life.You gotta get a wife, you gotta grow. You gotta get a life and get a wifeAnd get a lotta kids and be a pro ....
Like Smoke.(Poem)
Jul 01, 2008; Whitworth, John ... <Pre> LIKE SMOKE Like smoke from an abandoned cigarette,Your hopes have evanesced without a trace:The interviews you wish you could forget,The charms that failed to woo the populace,The speech that brought disaster and disgrace,The reasoned argument that came ...
The pornification of girlhood.(Society)(The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls )(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Reist, Melinda Tankard ... IN HER BOOK The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (1998), Joan Jacobs Brumberg examines the diaries of girls from the 1800s to the present. Extracts from two journals illustrate the significant shifts in the way girls see themselves and what they consider important. In ...
Censorship, liberty and licence.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Kramer, Leonie ... THE FIRST BOOK I asked for when I became a reader at the Bodleian Library was Lady Chatterley's Lover--a bizarre choice for a student about to embark on a thesis about formal satire from 1590 to 1650. This was an obscure subject and turned out to be an education in the characteristics of ...
Melbourne Macbeths: the underbelly series.(crime stories)
Jul 01, 2008; Masson, Sophie ... THERE'S A YELLOWING clipping in my scrapbook showing a scene that could be straight out of a film: a gleaming black coffin, covered in red roses, carried by men in sharp suits and sunglasses, coming out of a Catholic church in Kew; a blonde crime clan matriarch in black, old men with ...
The Woman on the Train to Venice.(Poem)
Jul 01, 2008; Walsh, Patrick ... <Pre> THE WOMAN ON THE TRAIN TO VENICE Like a willow, her hair in ringlet curlsHung down in dirty-blonde swags. I spotted the empty seat next to herWhile hoisting my traveling bags. She understood me with her eyesWhen I gestured her leave to sit down-- ...
Four fictions: an argument against a charter of rights.(Law)
Jul 01, 2008; Pell, George ... IF ANYONE WAS IN DOUBT about a charter of rights being back on the agenda for Australia, the 2020 Summit provided some much-needed clarification. While the call for a charter of fights was one of the headline outcomes from the Summit, the delegates discussing the matter were by no means ...
The Farm Terraces.(Poem)
Jul 01, 2008; Murray, Les ... <Pre> THE FARM TERRACES Beautiful merciless workaround the slopes of Earthterraces cut by curt hoeat the orders of hungeror a pointing lord.Levels eyed up to rhymecopied from grazing animalsround the steeps of Earth,balconies filtering water ...
Croc.(Poem)
Jul 01, 2008; Murray, Les ... <Pre> CROC This police car with a checkered seamof blue and white teeth along ...
Regrettably.(Poem)
Jul 01, 2008; Whitworth, John ... <Pre> REGRETTABLY The signs were plain for all to see, the signs I should have heeded.The stuff out there on offer was the stuff I never needed.He wasn't what I thought he was and not what I required.I should have sent him back before the ...
The visit of the Great White Fleet.(History)
Jul 01, 2008; Frame, Tom ... WHAT WAS THE BIGGEST public event in the first decade after Federation? According to those who lived through those years it was the visit of the American Great White Fleet to Australia in August 1908. Not only was it a great occasion for the new nation, it helped to forge a close and ...
The Irishness of Daisy Bates.(Biography)
Jul 01, 2008; Reece, Bob ... "I'M AS IRISH as Patrick's pig," Daisy Bates told the Adelaide News in January 1941, "but Australia has been my new home since I first landed in the West." Having spent the first twenty or so years of her life in Ireland, practically all of it in Roscrea, north Tipperary, she nurtured for ...