October 2010 Volume LIV, No. 10
If God Goes, the West Goes
The Left Rewrites Its History on Refugees
Corruption and Press Freedom in South Africa
The Great Myth of Britain’s “Great Betrayal”
The Arab Betrayal of the Palestinians
When Ideology Displaces Reason
Contents
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From time to time events occur which illuminate clearly the […]
October 18, 2010
12 mins
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Writing on refugees/asylum-seekers/illegal immigrants in the September issue of the […]
October 9, 2010
19 mins
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Freedom of the media is essential to the honesty of […]
October 6, 2010
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The myth of a Great Betrayal by Britain during the […]
October 4, 2010
11 mins
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In four decades of reading about international affairs and Middle […]
October 4, 2010
14 mins
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Anyone who has endured a university seminar series devoted to […]
October 4, 2010
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It would be remiss on my part not to use […]
October 4, 2010
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The ghost of Niccolò Machiavelli was stirred to action by […]
October 1, 2010
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It’s the night before the election. There was a short, […]
October 1, 2010
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Obviously I didn’t mean to get pregnant. The timing was […]
September 30, 2010
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Commissioner John Thomas Bigge (1780–1843) arrived in New South Wales […]
September 30, 2010
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Diomedea epomophora Mythic as our hero returning from the Trojan […]
September 30, 2010
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Deep in the wood’s shadow, amber eyes glow, swivel at […]
September 30, 2010
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My body shifts in the sand I cannot rise for […]
September 30, 2010
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for Nicholas You found in sun-patch the gleaming double-eye of […]
September 30, 2010
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Beneath a neon-lit beer glass, Alternately replenished, drained, Repeatedly without […]
September 30, 2010
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Night after night a century ago Erik Satie set off […]
September 30, 2010
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The curvatures of time and space suggest no suffering. “Event […]
September 30, 2010
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Nocturne That night we sat in Adirondack chairs and saw […]
September 30, 2010
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There was a man dying by the side of the […]
September 30, 2010
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Mornington Peninsula This is not Where folk traditionally jump, Nor […]
September 30, 2010
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The Canonization Rome, 17 October 2010 Mary MacKillop, born 1842, […]
September 30, 2010
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In the course of the recent political auction which produced […]
September 30, 2010
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These amateur educationists are everywhere intolerable bores. So long as […]
September 29, 2010
28 mins
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Nobody with intellectual pretensions, even the slightest, wants to be […]
September 29, 2010
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At 2 p.m. on Thursday, October 7, 1819, Governor Lachlan […]
September 29, 2010
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The First Fleet was that extraordinary venture when, under the […]
September 29, 2010
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Kerry Packer and effolalia When I first met Kerry Packer […]
September 29, 2010
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I went on a study tour of Israel in June […]
September 29, 2010
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The paths to abstraction are straighter and shorter than one […]
September 29, 2010
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Breeze rushes in through the open passenger car window and […]
September 29, 2010
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Like many other characters in Australian fiction, Bruce Pike, in […]
September 29, 2010
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A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding […]
September 29, 2010
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From the 1990s through the early part of this decade, […]
September 29, 2010
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It is a privilege indeed to share some thoughts and […]
September 29, 2010
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Thank God I’m an Atheist? SIR: I was interested to […]
September 29, 2010
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