Put shortly, a progressive, left-leaning Sydney-based artist visits her archaeologist brother in Bolivia. She is told that Che Guevara fought his last campaign in the wilds of Bolivia and that one of his lieutenants came from the utopian colony nearby founded by William Lane and other Australian radicals. Inspired by what she has heard, and well aware of Che Guevara’s popularity on university campuses in the United States and Australia, the progressive artist decides to enter a portrait prize for an image to be installed over the entrance to the New South Wales Gallery. Her image, linked to Che’s supposedly heroic campaign, will symbolise the victory of progressive thought down under.

In October 1976 I made my way to Golders Green in north London to call on Sir Charles Tennyson, grandson of the famous poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign.

"It was a matter of interest to me that many Australian academics seemed to think the only creative works of any consequence in South-East Asia were novels set in villages or kampongs, presented mostly in a simplistic way by decent but essentially parochial storytellers about deprivations referable to callous European rule"

In his latest book, Fact and Fiction, Nicholas Hasluck draws upon the diaries he kept while serving as a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. These provide not only a picture of judicial life but also an account of writing Dismissal, his novel about the final days of the Whitlam government. What follows are thoughts and recollectionss on the events of and before November 11, 1975

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Like many young West Australians in the 1960s, Quadrant contributor Nick Hasluck set sail for London, in his case for a post-graduate law degree at Oxford. In this excerpt from his new book, 'Beyond the Equator: An Australian Memoir' he recalls life at Wadham College and its larger-than-life warden, Sir Maurice Bowra