November 2009 Volume LIII, No. 11
As-best-os
The Immortal Samuel Johnson
Three Poems
The 41st Year of 1968
Table of Contents
Two Poems: 1
Contents
-
They were not persuaded that enough people were dying or […]
November 1, 2009
4 mins
-
Who of us can have failed to note how warmly […]
November 1, 2009
8 mins
-
Travelling Companions Out there is my life over here, my […]
November 1, 2009
2 mins
-
-
The anthology of Australian Women’s Poetry fell quickly, according to […]
November 1, 2009
1 mins
-
-
In the land of Mulk Raj Anand I never (in […]
November 1, 2009
3 mins
-
Giant Bamboo 1 Wind Catcher Its leaves are catching the […]
November 1, 2009
1 mins
-
In a home where books were scarce except for shelves […]
November 1, 2009
2 mins
-
for Frank Chattaway Arm outstretched for a mate he lies […]
November 1, 2009
1 mins
-
In this suburb the lawns, large or small, are neatly […]
November 1, 2009
5 mins
-
My Grandpa … Mine could whistle a blackbird as good […]
November 1, 2009
1 mins
-
Despite its somewhat strange and cryptic title, this book, the last work of noted West Australian scholar the late Professor Leslie Marchant, is a fascinating work, filled with information and interest.
November 1, 2009
5 mins
-
from the start, till now, nervous in Primary School, checking […]
November 1, 2009
1 mins
-
-
A dog shaking herself? No. The French window shudders open. […]
November 1, 2009
1 mins
-
Beach cricket with four-year-old Bat and ball glow brightest summer […]
November 1, 2009
2 mins
-
Twenty years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall […]
November 1, 2009
7 mins
-
Many of the education magazines to which I subscribed over […]
November 1, 2009
40 mins
-
The evening was normal enough for May. A slight chill […]
November 1, 2009
16 mins
-
Dr Craig Stockings’s book examines the capture of Bardia in greater detail than earlier accounts. The first two parts of the book are more satisfying than the third, which suffers from definitional looseness and circular arguments.
November 1, 2009
17 mins
-
It’s not until it happens that you believe though no-one […]
November 1, 2009
1 mins
-
spend Christmas day with his brothers let Buddha budge from […]
November 1, 2009
1 mins
-
I don’t resile from a fight with any teacher union, […]
November 1, 2009
10 mins
-
Since 2001 Australia has had the good luck to have […]
November 1, 2009
12 mins
-
Over the last decade or so, Christopher Hitchens has become […]
November 1, 2009
14 mins
-
Mao’s Last Dancer has three faces—but don’t fear. It isn’t […]
November 1, 2009
7 mins
-
WHILE READING George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years I was […]
November 1, 2009
10 mins
-
(Irving Kristol died on September 19. This essay first appeared […]
November 1, 2009
23 mins
-
The Minister for Defence Personnel, Science and Materiel, Greg Combet, […]
November 1, 2009
11 mins
-
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined […]
November 1, 2009
26 mins
-
I HAVE READ and re-read Kevin Rudd’s speech launching the […]
November 1, 2009
18 mins
-
There exists an extraordinary Napoleonic period plan for the invasion […]
November 1, 2009
15 mins
-
In Brisbane’s southern suburbs, among decidedly Anglo-Australian suburb names, such […]
November 1, 2009
12 mins
-
I am going forward, but in a different direction. —J.A. […]
November 1, 2009
44 mins
-
In January 2007, the controversial Grand Mufti of Australia, Sheikh […]
November 1, 2009
14 mins
-
Dominion of the Nerds SIR: David Alexander’s “By the Nerds, […]
November 1, 2009
8 mins
-
The education system, dominated by the politically correct Left and […]
November 1, 2009
14 mins
-
Can books have a moral influence on our lives? I […]
November 1, 2009
16 mins
-
The wider issues raised by last year’s Bill Henson affair […]
November 1, 2009
17 mins
-
“Critical commentary”, “confrontational work”, “disturbing take” and “frighteningly true” are […]
November 1, 2009
8 mins
-
“How would you like a trip to Sydney?” James McAuley […]
November 1, 2009
27 mins
-
Ludwig van Beethoven died on Monday, March 26, 1827. The […]
November 1, 2009
13 mins
-
Derek Bickerton has two goals in Adam’s Tongue: first, to […]
November 1, 2009
13 mins
-
MY LATE FRIEND Owen Weingott was best known as an […]
November 1, 2009
15 mins
-
In Chinese and other East Asian societies, a red envelope […]
November 1, 2009
18 mins
-
No one in this room needs to be told of the horror and the tragedy of the Holocaust. It was the defining moral event of the twentieth century. Virtually everyone in this room was personally touched, either directly or indirectly, by those events. The significance of remembrance is now well established, at least to people such as us. It is not always so well established to others. Whilst it may be true that, for many, there is a certain amount of overload on the subject of the Holocaust, nevertheless, it is a theme that repeats itself again and again. We cannot leave it alone because of the extraordinary range of human characteristics, ranging from satanic evil on the one hand to the most self-denying personal altruism on the other, which it evoked.
November 1, 2009
11 mins
-
Anyone who has attempted to compose rhyming verse in English must have come up against one of the limitations of the language. That is, as compared to for example the Romance languages, French and Italian, or to Russian, there is in English a relative shortage of words that rhyme with one another. The inevitable result is that our versifiers are at times unable to express their intended thoughts while fulfilling the demands of the chosen form. Indeed, it is not unknown for English-language poets to end up saying something other than what they meant to, and this can even work to their advantage.
November 1, 2009
7 mins