April 2014 Volume LVIII, No. 4
The ‘Terminal Decline’ Of The ADF
A Union Leader in the Afrika Korps
The Military Historians’ War on the Anzac Legend
Feminism And Gendercide
Of All Places To Go At Easter
The False Promise of Internet Elections
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As long as Australia continues to talk but not act on assuming its share of the security burden in Asia, we will compound the consequences of the Rudd/Gillard years' neglect. Repairing that damage in a time of budgetary constraints is a daunting challengeApril 1, 2014
8 mins
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Sir: Following the publication by Quadrant of my book Australia’s […]April 1, 2014
10 mins
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The war on the Anzac tradition is intensifying. A long-term […]
March 29, 2014
26 mins
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If it is a woman’s “right” to choose whether or not to give birth, it must therefore be okay to choose whether or not to give birth to a girl. In this sense, the primary result of the successful support by mainstream feminism for legal abortion is that we have become the arbitrary judges over human lifeApril 6, 2014
27 mins
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Only Evangelical preachers still thunder away about the Bible; in less enthusiastic churches you are more likely to hear platitudes than the Beatitudes. Happily, though, sin is still uncompromisingly condemned. The evils of climate change and racism are regularly preached against. For Easter, a reprise of Christopher Akehurst's 2014 columnMarch 29, 2024
6 mins
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Bubbling just beneath all the talk of Western Australia's lost Senate votes and its re-staged poll has been the suggestion that elections conducted via the web might represent a definite improvement. It is a notion that does not survive scrutinyApril 10, 2014
9 mins
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Wills and inheritances loom large in an immense number of English-language novels. Sadly, we have come to take the idea of total ownership for granted -- a great pity because it is a key element of what both explains the Anglosphere and sets it apartApril 19, 2014
20 mins
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How close has been our alliance with the USA? What […]
April 1, 2014
13 mins
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In his 2013 Whitlam Oration, Noel Pearson quoted John Cleese […]
April 1, 2014
26 mins
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The left talks a good game about diversity, but it is only amongst those inspired by the principles of classical liberalism that you will find a tolerance -- indeed, an encouragement -- of divergent political thought and associationApril 24, 2014
18 mins
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James Russell Thompson was a successful businessman from Airdrie in […]
April 1, 2014
13 mins
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Did Mr A.T. Jelly, probably of Nedlands, Perth, play some […]
April 1, 2014
14 mins
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"I grew up with horror stories about the Japanese, and, though I have had many positive encounters since, I went to the Hodogaya Commonwealth Cemetery with an undefined sense of dread. How wrong I was. This place is life-affirming, uplifting"April 25, 2014
9 mins
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I thought of Charles as a contemporary though he was […]
April 1, 2014
26 mins
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The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor John Murray, 2013, […]
April 1, 2014
14 mins
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Robert Dessaix and I just missed bumping into each other […]
April 1, 2014
27 mins
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Twentieth Century Fox hit Greene with a criminal libel suit for suggesting that the child star played deliberately to “a public of licentious old men, ready to enjoy the fine flavour of such an unripe, charming little creature”. Facing a possible prison sentence, the novelist did a Polanski and fled to Mexico, where 'The Power and the Glory' was one resultApril 28, 2014
12 mins
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For years I’ve pondered a cultural and social paradox that […]
April 1, 2014
38 mins
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The man walked over and smashed the winning sculpture. Quite […]
April 1, 2014
40 mins
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Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Philip Short Bodley Head, […]
April 1, 2014
7 mins
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O thorny, glowing, twisted heart, that walked the London streets […]
April 1, 2014
6 mins
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Satellite of la-ah-ah-love. When I was growing up in Melbourne […]
April 1, 2014
24 mins
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Whale Sounding Enormous whale vertically diving, thick roof tail […]
April 1, 2014
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Sweets and Things You mention sherbet lemons, and we’re […]
April 1, 2014
2 mins
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Night Flight to Griffith I leant my face against […]
April 1, 2014
4 mins
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Kite surfers aloft at Cronulla You gaze up […]
April 1, 2014
1 mins
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Dream of the Rood So! I will sing the […]
April 1, 2014
2 mins
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Bibliophilia They meant wealth, once, the leather-rank library […]
April 1, 2014
2 mins
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Match Girls, 1888 She holds the frame and dips […]
April 1, 2014
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