November 2010 Volume LIV, No. 11
Kevin Rudd’s Foreign Policy Overshoot
Builder of Beauty
Introduction to Kenneth Minogue
Some Reflections on Child Removal
Burnt by brilliance
Blinded by the Dominant Ideology
Contents
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The Rudd Government’s foreign policy legacy: grand plans and ideas […]
November 1, 2010
30 mins
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A.G. Evans, William Wardell: Building with Conviction (Connor Court, 2010), […]
November 1, 2010
5 mins
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The October edition of Quadrant led with a review by […]
November 1, 2010
4 mins
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Today seventy-one years ago I left Germany. My Aunt Leni […]
November 1, 2010
13 mins
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August: Osage County played at Sydney Theatre from August 13 […]
November 1, 2010
21 mins
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Immobilised by the internationally amplified glare of “the greatest moral, […]
November 1, 2010
30 mins
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Washout: On the Academic Response to the Fabrication of Aboriginal […]
November 1, 2010
20 mins
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1918: Year of Victory, edited by Ashley Ekins; Exisle Publishing, […]
November 1, 2010
16 mins
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My article in the April Quadrant, “The Escalating Islamist Threat […]
November 1, 2010
30 mins
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Political Memoirs by Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons; Miegunyah, 2010, […]
November 1, 2010
14 mins
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It is better to learn from the mistakes of others […]
November 1, 2010
20 mins
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[Extract from The Servile Mind published by Encounter Books. See […]
November 1, 2010
18 mins
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Phil Parvin, The Essential Popper (Volume 14 in the series […]
November 1, 2010
6 mins
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Living in New York for twenty years, it was inevitable […]
November 1, 2010
28 mins
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The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope, by […]
November 1, 2010
12 mins
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The early bird catches the worm is a cliché but […]
October 29, 2010
1 mins
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His coat speaks the same language as a thin younger […]
October 29, 2010
1 mins
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Please keep your word to me Orpheo keep your promise […]
October 29, 2010
1 mins
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Breakfast time on Monday September 27 last; that day’s Australian […]
October 29, 2010
7 mins
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“I guess the man’s a genius, but what a dirty […]
October 29, 2010
1 mins
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The rose garden is readied for the year. Pruned, first […]
October 29, 2010
1 mins
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He looked at the stand of Mountain Ash by Grants […]
October 29, 2010
1 mins
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What will you do in retirement, is what so many […]
October 29, 2010
1 mins
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Mid-winter night. Amy strides across the zebra crossing, a bulging […]
October 29, 2010
1 mins
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Epicentre I woke up dazed some taniwha had risen underneath […]
October 29, 2010
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Lake Eyre is wet this year. It’s on the horizon. […]
October 29, 2010
3 mins
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TV news item, March 2009: “Some members of the scientific […]
October 29, 2010
2 mins
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For Fr Brendan O’Callaghan Two youngsters on their hillside, They […]
October 29, 2010
2 mins
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Moral Combat: A History of World War II, by Michael Burleigh; HarperCollins, 2010, 576 pages, $69.99.
War is a cruel business and so a degree of moral ambivalence is always going to be a part of the whole picture. All the same, in Moral Combat Michael Burleigh argues that the attempt by some historians to re-apportion criminality and victimhood in the Second World War has gone too far. Burleigh finds his own moral bearings by beginning with the obvious: responsibility for the Second World War and its attendant horror lies with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.All three regimes were predatory, but none more so than the Third Reich. The chapter “The Rape of Poland” illustrates all too clearly the diabolical consequences of Nazi ideology on humanity. The German Labour Front, for instance, took German soldiers on leave through the Warsaw Ghetto to satisfy their ghoulish inquisitiveness: “As time passed, these visitors inevitably saw corpses lying in the streets, waiting to be taken by cart to the cemetery, which was the high point of each trip.” So defiled were they by Nazism, the perpetrators of some of the most notorious murders in history could see their killing as “a form of racial altruism”.
October 29, 2010
6 mins
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To Salamaua, by Phillip Bradley; Cambridge University Press, 2010, 390 pages, $59.95.
Phillip Bradley established a high reputation with his two earlier studies of important operations in the New Guinea fighting in the Second World War; they were On Shaggy Ridge and The Battle for Wau. His new book, To Salamaua, adds to his already substantial laurels.It cannot, for the author, have been an “easy write”, for the events spread themselves over a long slice of time and a broad swathe of country. They open in March 1942, when the Japanese invaders established for themselves powerful bases and airfields at Lae and Salamaua. These seaports on New Guinea’s north-east coast placed Port Moresby within range of Japanese bomber and fighter aircraft, and heavy raids were frequent. The enemy remained in occupation for over a year and a half, until Australian forces re-entered Lae on September 4, 1943, and Salamaua a few days later.
October 29, 2010
9 mins
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The accuracy of Brett Jenik’s article “Myth, Reality and Oskar […]
October 29, 2010
13 mins
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Autistic children can be a nightmare. They have strange speech […]
October 29, 2010
9 mins
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Introduction In ancient China, recipes were not written by chefs […]
October 29, 2010
19 mins
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In Australian discussions of current affairs one can often detect […]
October 28, 2010
30 mins
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A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock, by Jim Davidson; […]
October 28, 2010
19 mins
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The moment I finished my perusal of Man with a […]
October 28, 2010
8 mins
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It had been a triumphant rise to power. He’d been […]
October 28, 2010
13 mins
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Hidden amid the needle-leaf conifers of a Siberian forest, sixty […]
October 28, 2010
30 mins
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Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, by Kate Jennings; Black Inc, […]
October 28, 2010
18 mins
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The “Great Betrayal” SIR: I would like to add a […]
October 28, 2010
26 mins