October 2009 Volume LIII, No. 10
The History Wars and the Holocaust
The Extraordinary Robert Conquest
At Taronga Zoo; Wellington
Three short poems
A Ballade of Serious Matters
The City of Dreams
Contents
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Central to the new strategy of Holocaust denial are foreign historians and intellectuals eager to provide examples of 'genocide' their own countries have allegedly committed. Does it come as a surprise that Australia's professorial peddlers of massacre myths and legends were on the first plane, metaphorically speaking, for a revisionist conference in Berlin
August 1, 2024
38 mins
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Historian, journalist, poet, novelist and fierce combatant in the cause of liberty, the great chronicler of Stalin's empire and evil was a giant, not least for his honesty in re-evaluating and rejecting the revolutionary passions of his youth. He will be missed
August 5, 2015
9 mins
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At Taronga Zoo 1. Echidna quills filter the wind. 2. […]
October 1, 2009
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In Her Mirror A beautiful woman sees beautiful and grows […]
October 1, 2009
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(Verse doesn’t grow on trees, you know. Blood, sweat and […]
October 1, 2009
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An imitation countryside In concrete holds the animals, Piped music […]
October 1, 2009
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Mother’s Day I don’t know where my daughter is. The […]
October 1, 2009
1 mins
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Gallipoli and the Anzac Legend SIR: It is gratifying that […]
October 1, 2009
7 mins
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The last time I saw Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie, […]
October 1, 2009
19 mins
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Why would Australian historians travel to Germany to expound their […]
October 1, 2009
38 mins
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Since 1975 there have been suggestions that there was a […]
October 1, 2009
14 mins
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After its formal closure in 1988, Old Parliament House in […]
October 1, 2009
12 mins
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Franklin Roosevelt was wrong. In the most quoted phrase of […]
October 1, 2009
25 mins
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In a society, now or in the past, where belief […]
October 1, 2009
12 mins
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Voltaire (1694–1778) is probably best remembered for his cynical witticisms. […]
October 1, 2009
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The first shafts of daylight probe the Sunday morning shadows, […]
October 1, 2009
16 mins
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Battlelines, by Tony Abbott, Melbourne University Press, 2009, $34.99.
Tony Abbott opens his book with a prologue putting the case that Liberals should write more books. Authorship is a risky undertaking for any politician. Public humiliation is part and parcel of political life, and finding one’s opus in the Angus & Robertson two-dollar bin must prick even the toughest of hides, but by all accounts this book is selling well and is unlikely to be remaindered.
October 1, 2009
7 mins
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Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor, by Eamon Duffy; Yale University Press, 2009, $40.95.
As every schoolchild—well, actually nothing like every schoolchild, especially in Australia, but perhaps every reasonably educated person of a certain age—knows, Mary Tudor was a bloodthirsty Catholic hag who managed to weasel her way onto the rightfully Protestant (or at least Anglican) throne of England. She and her pathetic foreign husband then proceeded to kill everyone in sight until Mary herself mercifully died without living issue. England then got back to being decent and reformist and full of constitutional rights and riches for everyone except slaves (reintroduced to England by Elizabeth I) and Catholics.
October 1, 2009
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The Outsider: A Portrait of Ursula Hoff, by Colin Holden; Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, $49.95.
This detailed and thoughtful biography of Dr Ursula Hoff AO OBE (1909–2005) appears in her centenary year. It is based largely on research by the author, a professional historian, into the surviving diaries kept by Dr Hoff, now in private hands, and other sources including Hoff papers deposited in the University of Melbourne Archives.
October 1, 2009
8 mins
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A north wind was blowing as thirty men gathered at […]
October 1, 2009
21 mins
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The less a thing is known, the more fervently it […]
October 1, 2009
13 mins
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The legislative season of the Victorian parliament in 2008 introduced […]
October 1, 2009
26 mins
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Last year the Victorian parliament passed the Abortion Law Reform […]
October 1, 2009
9 mins
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The national curriculum is to include the arts some time […]
October 1, 2009
30 mins
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As I sit down to write this, my family and […]
October 1, 2009
22 mins
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The G8, apparently meeting rather fruitlessly in L’Aquila, Italy, in […]
October 1, 2009
33 mins
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Flowers Isn’t it remarkable how many things you can consider […]
October 1, 2009
11 mins
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Philosophy is a uniquely important subject, dealing as it does […]
October 1, 2009
15 mins
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There is a celebrated passage in Boswell’s Life of Johnson […]
October 1, 2009
25 mins
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Now an emeritus professor at the University of Hawaii, Derek […]
October 1, 2009
16 mins
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Could it be true that if you want to read […]
October 1, 2009
29 mins
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The great German historian of culture Reinhart Kosseleck has pointed […]
October 1, 2009
12 mins
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The back page of the Australian’s Higher Education Supplement of […]
October 1, 2009
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The Gun Shop 1953 Flipping through the catalogues, he sometimes […]
October 1, 2009
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The Climb for Geoff Bell Heaving breath slows on Paton’s […]
October 1, 2009
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W. K.’s Figure with the Moulting Beard (Many of the […]
October 1, 2009
2 mins
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The Big Bang Matter can not touch matter. There is […]
October 1, 2009
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Its walls are thick-sliced pise; the lean-to, wattle ’n’ daub. […]
October 1, 2009
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Bullets don’t just kill strangers. My spoon stirred black tea […]
October 1, 2009
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