December 2010 Volume LIV, No. 12
Pennies for the Shark
The Political Memoirs of a Conservative Realist
Pennies for the Shark
Hitting the Ground Alive
As She is Spoke
Stages in the night
Contents
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A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
August 16, 2024
3 mins
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Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography, by John Howard; HarperCollins, 2010, […]
December 1, 2010
24 mins
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Taronga Park Aquarium once had, When I was very young, […]
December 1, 2010
3 mins
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Jennifer Compton, Barefoot, (Picaro Press, 2010), 62 pages, $15 A […]
December 1, 2010
8 mins
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My father was a fuss-budget where language was concerned, and […]
December 1, 2010
13 mins
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Our Town played at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, […]
December 1, 2010
17 mins
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I want to begin by genuflecting before the gods of […]
December 1, 2010
32 mins
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In August, delivering the Michael Hintze Lecture at the University […]
December 1, 2010
41 mins
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One day you sorry lot will wake up to the […]
December 1, 2010
32 mins
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Reynolds attacked the assault on O’Neill and proposed that, “This […]
December 1, 2010
18 mins
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The decision by a group of Aboriginal political activists to […]
December 1, 2010
24 mins
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The Global Financial Crisis through which the world recently passed […]
December 1, 2010
30 mins
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This photograph of two small indigenous men accompanied by two […]
December 1, 2010
13 mins
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There are shades of guava pink in the clouds at […]
November 30, 2010
13 mins
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He was standing by the double doors that opened […]
November 30, 2010
7 mins
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Our daily media diet of murder and massacre in the […]
November 30, 2010
8 mins
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If I’d remembered, a little suffering could have been averted— […]
November 30, 2010
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i A gust of finches through the rails of the […]
November 30, 2010
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(for J.D.) Against the eastern wall of a shed, Of […]
November 30, 2010
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The Bottom of the Ocean There are people at the […]
November 29, 2010
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A clash of hockey sticks, a clash Of temperaments, a […]
November 29, 2010
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Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew, by Mike Carlton; William Heinemann, 2010, 706 pages, $55.
Cruiser by Mike Carlton was launched on Wednesday August 28 on board HMAS Sydney at Garden Island Dockyard. It is an heroic work of over 700 pages and tracks the two and a half years service of HMAS Perth and all who sailed in her from July 1939 until her sinking in the Sunda Strait on March 1. 1942. With Perth as its centre it is also an extremely well written account, both militarily and politically, of the significant events of the war.
Over many years of meticulous research, Mike Carlton has recorded many contrasting details from ships’ company diaries and interviews. These give a compelling insight into life aboard ship, particularly in the Mediterranean and in the harrowing years of Japanese cruelty to prisoners of war.
The story begins with the 500 crew for Perth leaving Sydney on March 13, 1939, in the Blue Funnel ship Autolycus bound for Portsmouth, England, to commission the ship. Perth was previously known as HMS Amphion. Perth left Portsmouth on July 26 for New York.
Service in the Caribbean followed under Royal Navy command and then on September 3 war was declared against Germany. Under the command of Captain H.B. Farncomb, the first of her three captains, Perth spent her time blockading German merchant ships in harbour and acting as convoy escort. Captain Farncomb was later promoted to Rear Admiral.
November 29, 2010
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When I began film teaching in the early seventies at […]
November 29, 2010
8 mins
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August 20 marked the twentieth anniversary of the death of […]
November 29, 2010
15 mins
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The two State Kreis of the White Rajah always lay […]
November 29, 2010
13 mins
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James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, Thames & […]
November 29, 2010
12 mins
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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern […]
November 29, 2010
27 mins
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Are humans a part of nature? Or are we apart […]
November 29, 2010
16 mins
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The heart of Man is not compound of lies, but […]
November 29, 2010
15 mins
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The inner shape of a feeling “A lot of […]
November 29, 2010
42 mins
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“In or about December, 1910, human character changed”. So asserted […]
November 29, 2010
38 mins
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A Certain Frame of Mind SIR: Hal Colebatch’s very cross […]
November 29, 2010
23 mins