April 2009 Volume LIII, No. 4
The Wonder
Two Whole Men
A Big Hug from the Prime Minister
Anzac Bridge
The October Tree; Stingrays
Sylvia’s Verse; Right Thinking; A Nearly Ballade of Poetic Misery
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I.M. Richard Hogg 1944–2007 Start with the wonder. Start with […]
April 1, 2009
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The Holy Well, by Colin Macpherson. Mopoke Publishing, 2007, $37.95.
Bren is born somewhere in the eastern Highlands of Scotland, in the late Bronze Age, about 3000 years ago, beside a loch. He is the son of the local chief, and is destined to succeed his father. James is born to ordinary parents in a working-class suburb of Melbourne in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
April 1, 2009
4 mins
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What revolutions we Australians have watched in what Doctor Johnson […]
April 1, 2009
7 mins
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The October Tree For days I have watched it dress […]
April 1, 2009
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Sylvia’s Verse She never should have married him, she never […]
April 1, 2009
4 mins
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I Go Cold with the Memory of It I go […]
April 1, 2009
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The Leavings Pity the woman who moves to a house […]
April 1, 2009
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He checks himself out in the dusty mirror beneath the […]
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Father of the House, by Kim E. Beazley. Fremantle Press, 2009, $27.95.
Apart from a regrettable interregnum in 1977–80, two Kim Beazleys, father and son, successively served in the Australian House of Representatives for some six decades from the death of John Curtin in 1945 through to the most recent federal election.
April 1, 2009
8 mins
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Standing on slightly grubby dignity By the Yarra bend, weatherly […]
April 1, 2009
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Old John Mort. was a rather rum sort. Politically of […]
April 1, 2009
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Far off, a timber mill saw whines As my grandfather […]
April 1, 2009
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Because a summer squall tossed the toys Of Xerxes, son […]
April 1, 2009
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The Menu Sunday: Junk and Duff Monday: Hog and Peas […]
April 1, 2009
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Agriculture has a bad name in Australia. We are told […]
April 1, 2009
28 mins
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What makes Kevin Rudd run? The first answer to the […]
April 1, 2009
27 mins
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The Duke of Wellington thought that “croaking” was the second-worst […]
April 1, 2009
46 mins
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The Melbourne Theatre Company’s new Sumner Theatre opened with “a […]
April 1, 2009
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[Video of Justin Kelly speaking at a Quadrant Dinner on […]
April 1, 2009
36 mins
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Famously, during the 1992 US election Bill Clinton’s staff hung […]
April 1, 2009
18 mins
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The financial meltdown, partly driven by risk analysis of the […]
April 1, 2009
9 mins
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It is quite astonishing to come across the economic and […]
April 1, 2009
29 mins
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The Free Trade Agreement with the USA was the key […]
April 1, 2009
47 mins
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Memories of Peter and Kitty Howson Ray Evans I first […]
April 1, 2009
29 mins
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In a feature essay in the Sunday Times (London) in […]
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The twentieth century witnessed many genocides and mass slaughters carried […]
April 1, 2009
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Dr Bou’s reply (Quadrant, March 2009) to my discussion in […]
April 1, 2009
11 mins
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PC Power SIR: Congratulations to Ray Evans and Tom Quirk […]
April 1, 2009
10 mins
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The late Jack Lynn—an old friend and collaborator—would sometimes say […]
April 1, 2009
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Dr Ursula Hoff AO OBE (1909–2005) was one of Australia’s […]
April 1, 2009
28 mins
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My mother and father spoke Serbian. We whispered it at […]
April 1, 2009
22 mins
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“This is not a game for knights,” Philip Marlowe says, […]
April 1, 2009
9 mins
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Of the Director of the Writers’ Centre’s preoccupations, the most […]
April 1, 2009
19 mins
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There was a part of the road he never remembered. […]
April 1, 2009
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The Land I Came Through Last: A Family Memoir by Robert Gray. Giramondo, 2008, $34.95.
“We are the children of our landscape,” Lawrence Durrell observes in Justine. “It dictates behaviour and even thought to the measure to which we are responsive to it.”
April 1, 2009
9 mins
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John Poynter, Mr Felton’s Bequests (Miegunyah Press, 2008), $89.95 When […]
April 1, 2009
6 mins
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Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English by Bruce Moore. OUP, 2008, $29.95.
Film-makers who sprinkle multicultural accents around Australian history gild the lily. Ned’s broad Irish in Kelly films is the characteristic culprit, but graziers, politicians and officials from colonial times and later are typically given posh English accents and anything European is likely to be grasped loudly.
April 1, 2009
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