Recently added articles from Quadrant:
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Respected Poet.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> RESPECTED POET (I am "a respected poet", a distinction I share with Radovan Karadzic.) A tinkling tune from the saloonIrradiates the afternoon.My footsteps echo up and downThe boardwalks of a dusty townWhere people never meet my eyeBut cringe and ...
Dreaming and nightmares in Central Australia.(Television)(portraying Aboriginals on First Australians)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I WAS GRATIFIED to be approached by the producer-director of First Australians, Rachel Perkins, who wanted to use material from my self-published account of some of the events in Central Australia in the 1880s, God, Guns and Government on the Central Australian Frontier, but there was also ...
Send Me Jenny Agutter.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> SEND ME JENNY AGUTTER Dear Matchmaking Powers up above, It's not for me to meddle in your plan,Or try to tell you who I'm meant to have, But send me Jenny Agutter if you can. It was in The Railway Children long ago She first aroused my ...
Learning Portuguese.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> LEARNING PORTUGUESEO poeta e um fingidor --Fernando Pessoa The poet is a faker. And aren't you,pretending you have no hand in this verse?Easily as sea-green slides to bluemy thought dies into yours. The word's a hearse. Pretending you ...
War and the city in the new urban century.(Defence)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... No matter how many valuable functions the city has furthered, it has also served, throughout most of its history, as a container of organized violence and a transmitter of war. --Lewis Mumford, The City in History (1961) London, his part of it, lies wide open, ...
A soldier's view of the Iraq war.(Defence)(Running the War in Iraq)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... FROM EARLY 2004 until a year later, the Australian Major General Jim Molan was Chief of Operations in the coalition military forces in Iraq. He was the most senior non-American officer in the force and was responsible to the commanding general for all operations by the force. Among these ...
Seeing and not seeing.(Art)(Claude Monet's art)
Jan 01, 2009; ... CLAUDE MONET has been around for too long for us to expect any aesthetic surprises--those little shocks to the ocular engine were all absorbed, and rapidly enough, by the salon habitues of the 1860s and beyond. But one must not look a gift horse in the mouth. Some twenty-nine works by the ...
Masters Leech, Swallow, Bonesuck and Blind John.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> MASTERS LEECH, SWALLOW, BONESUCK AND BLIND JOHN (Masters Leech, Swallow and Bonesuck are from Thomas Middleton. Blind John has his own Collected Works.) Forget about the cash. It's all been spent,Squirrelled away or scattered to the wide.They're on our case ....
The Girlie Gangs.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> THE GIRLIE GANGS The girlie gangs are on the streets, all pissed asRats and roaring rugby songs again.Too well they've learned the lessons of the sistersAnd drawn their unerring beads on bloody men,From Saint Ignatius to Martin Bormann.God bless you, ...
Blue Poles, modernism and the Tory Philosophy.(Art)
Jan 01, 2009; ... IN THE APRIL 2006 edition of Quadrant, Giles Auty denounced modern art's "obsession with novelty" and stated a position that seems relatively unexceptional: that the single feature that unifies the forty-odd art movements of the twentieth century that constitute modernism is "the rejection ...
Arguments against abstraction.(modern and abstract art)
Jan 01, 2009; ... IN LAST SEPTEMBER's issue of Quadrant, Sydney lawyer Baron Alder turned his evidently energetic mind to the contentious issue of Australia's idea of itself, comparing the kind of image advanced in Russel Ward's The Australian Legend of 1958 with more contemporary--and ...
Back to Coombs, or forward?(Australia)(Aboriginal's land claims)
Jan 01, 2009; ... UNDER THE MCMAHON government, and during my time as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the Left took control of Aboriginal policy in Australia. The Great White Elder who drove Aboriginal policy from 1979 until the 1990s (he died in 1997) was Nugget Coombs, whose meteoric career in the public ...
Terrorism Studies.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> TERRORISM STUDIES No evil so extreme, no act so direbut it makes our commentator's day.We think we may have standards; his are higher,so high that black and white are shades of grey.He commandeers a lofty moral planethat, weaponised, will target the ...
Australian Flag Centenary Celebrations, Fremantle Artillery Barracks, 2 September 2001.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> AUSTRALIAN FLAG CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS, FREMANTLE ARTILLERY BARRACKS, 2 SEPTEMBER 2001 A sudden sea of flags and faces.Who called out and dressed these ranksof every age and income, it appears,gathered before relic guns and tanks? They fill the parade ...
The Two Horsemen.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2009; ... <Pre> THE TWO HORSEMEN It used to take Four Horsemen in their dayTo push the Apocalyptic ending through,But streamlining has been the modern wayAnd now the task requires only two-- Rampage and Anomie are their namesAnd their functions are cleverly combined ....