October 2013 Volume LVII, No. 10

Hal Colebatch: Inside an Outsider

Tony Thomas
A Contender for Australia’s Worst Law
Alan Oxley
The unions’ war on Australia
Hal G.P. Colebatch
Looking Squarely at “Gay Marriage”
Peter Ryan
Three poems
Suzanne Edgar
I Can Call Spirits
John Whitworth

Letters

Voting, Kerry Packer, Security

Brian Doak, Michael O’Connor, Trevor Kennedy

Books

Taking It Personally

Jennifer Compton

Clubmen of Old Melbourne

Michael Wilding

Chronicle

Defence

Fiction

The Magician’s Shadow

Ben Sharafski

Film

Restoring The Big Sleep

Neil McDonald

First Person

A Bumper to Her Majesty

David Daintree

John Foley

Literature

Long Lunches with Dick Hall

Karin Petersen-Schaefer

Profile

Theatre

Rupert Bombs in Melbourne

Michael Connor

World War Two

The unions’ war on Australia

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Poetry

Three poems

Suzanne Edgar

I Can Call Spirits

John Whitworth

Two poems

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

Down and Out

John Whitworth

My Father is Not Dead

Jamie Grant

Door

Ken Stone

Red Velvet Cabbages

Jenny Blackford

Two poems

Jenny Blackford

Three Poems

Ross Donlon

A House in the Var

Iain Bamforth

Ash

Andrew Lansdown

Incineration

Suzanne Edgar

School pick-up, winter

David Lumsden

Blues

Andrew Lansdown

Two poems

Alan Gould

In Two Minds

Suzanne Edgar