November 2011 Volume LV, No. 11
Away from You
With Patriotic Resolve
Family Services
H.G. Wells and Mr Polly
Powder of Light
Two Selves
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Hal Colebatch, Counterstrike (Acashic, 2011), 245 pages, $23.99 The title […]
November 1, 2011
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If there is one set of societal “facts” today which […]
November 1, 2011
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“There on the pavement these inexpert children of a pacific […]
November 1, 2011
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Hunched in the farm ute tarpaulin against wind the moon […]
November 1, 2011
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Switching off the bedside lamps with tacit drowsy consent we […]
November 1, 2011
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I could see at once the town was going to […]
November 1, 2011
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for Peter Marks When your blue chip is starting to […]
November 1, 2011
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William Henry was caught stealing bread from a cart seven […]
November 1, 2011
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Totally naked, with shaven head, he stands before his god […]
November 1, 2011
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“Big government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of […]
November 1, 2011
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The most beautiful woman I ever saw was a Dominican […]
November 1, 2011
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Every little while, in tracking past obsessions, I sift through […]
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(The Ballad of Harry Power) Gather round me children and […]
November 1, 2011
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I hear the voice of the Lord in the shriek […]
November 1, 2011
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You hear it, as you glance over your shoulder while […]
November 1, 2011
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Strange you are remembered mostly, if at all, for half-a-dozen […]
November 1, 2011
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i.m. Alan Sullivan I. Burial at Sea Two thousand miles […]
November 1, 2011
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His box held war medals, pay book, discharge papers, photos […]
November 1, 2011
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Art became a more serious enterprise in the late 1980s, […]
November 1, 2011
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Cultural Totalitarians SIR: I was very impressed with Professor Tony […]
November 1, 2011
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For a decision in the Bolt trial we waited from […]
November 1, 2011
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Mark Steyn, After America: Get Ready for Armageddon (Regnery, 2011), […]
November 1, 2011
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Mark Steyn, After America: Get Ready for Armageddon (Regnery, 2011), […]
November 1, 2011
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The best way for Prime Minister Tony Abbott to win […]
November 1, 2011
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Four years into the Rudd–Gillard Labor government, it is judged […]
November 1, 2011
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Marcus Clarke’s preface to the poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon […]
November 1, 2011
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In one of the innumerable essays on the Harry Potter […]
November 1, 2011
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Although John Buchan was raised to the peerage (as Lord […]
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Did Grace Cossington Smith read Virginia Woolf? It’s a question […]
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A slaughter calculated to terrify non-Muslims throughout Holland took place […]
November 1, 2011
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Who was Cecil Woodham-Smith? The name is pure Wooster, redolent […]
November 1, 2011
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Eric Richards, The Highland Clearances (Birlinn, 2000), but latest edition […]
November 1, 2011
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On climate change, there is an official policy consensus. That […]
November 1, 2011
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In the July-August 2009 edition of Quadrant I wrote an […]
November 1, 2011
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Not all equality is equal Everyone should have equal access […]
November 1, 2011
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History is a strange book. From 1853 to 1856 the […]
November 1, 2011
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The Australian Senate in 2006, by the narrowest possible margin, […]
November 1, 2011
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In 2007 veteran French director Bertrand Tavernier embarked on an […]
November 1, 2011
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There’s nothing preventing Australians from making excellent films. For each […]
November 1, 2011
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When we arrived with our six children to study Spanish […]
November 1, 2011
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In Her Own Words: The Writings of Elizabeth Macquarie, transcribed […]
November 1, 2011
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"The For Sale sign went up outside our front gate. Once the For Sale sign is up outside your gate, and the whole village knows, then you have already left. And the rest is just a nuisance of waiting, an impatient grief, and the outrage of strangers mooching through your living room In three months, six months, we will be gone. It’s all over, our days here are done"August 16, 2011
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