July-August 2014 Volume LVIII, No. 7-8
The Left and Vietnam
Malcolm Fraser’s Dangerous Dotage
David Armstrong
The Greens’ Bid to Control Agriculture
How Boat People Sank Rudd and Gillard
The Truth About Menzies and the Second World War
Contents
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Sir: The events of 1975 which Hal Colebatch analyses (June […]July 1, 2014
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Should his unhinged insights on trade and the US alliance be heeded, Australia would go down in history as a tragic and unforgettable sequel to that other ornament to Malcolm’s brilliant career, Robert Mugabe’s ZimbabweJuly 1, 2014
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David Malet Armstrong AO, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the […]
July 1, 2014
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Primary industries are under threat from an alliance of environmental zealots and corporations buckling in the face of orchestrated protests, PR campaigns and legal harassment. The stakes are huge: effective control of worldwide agricultureJuly 14, 2014
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If we are to take seriously Troy Bramston’s stated goal in writing "Rudd, Gillard and Beyond" we must address Gillard’s claim that her predecessor's administration was “a good government that lost its way”. It wasn't, not by a long chalk, and neither was her ownJuly 4, 2014
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Menzies at War by Anne Henderson NewSouth Publishing, 2014, 272 […]
July 1, 2014
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The reason Section 18C must be scrapped could not be more simple: politically-motivated lawfare makes the price of free speech far too high. The so-called right of others not to be offended restricts our freedom to fully and freely discuss subjects of national importanceJuly 9, 2014
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The profound analytical and moral confusion that afflicts Western political […]
July 1, 2014
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When the US Nazi Party paraded in the American town with that nation's highest concentration of Holocaust survivors it was more than a victory for free speech. Thanks to the unfettered debate surrounding the event, a gang of posturing, publicity-seeking fools were revealed for what they are. That's the beauty of free speech: it worksJuly 25, 2014
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Britain's wartime leader defied Hitler and preserved at the cost of blood and treasure the sceptre'd isle of Magna Carta and hard-won liberties. How now is that we see this legacy of freedoms being so meekly surrendered?August 27, 2014
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Democracy in Decline: Steps in the Wrong Direction by James […]
July 1, 2014
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If issues such as parental spanking are covered, in whole or in part, by an international law treaty couched in indeterminate, abstract terms then it must follow that the scope for democratic decision-making has been narrowed and enervatedAugust 29, 2014
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In the distant past—it seems a long time ago now—the […]
July 1, 2014
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Murray Gleeson: The Smiler by Michael Pelly Federation Press, 2014, […]
July 1, 2014
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Illiberal Delusions that Disfigured the Modern World There is much […]
July 1, 2014
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Too many historians have sought to “normalise” Wilhelmine Germany, ignoring the ideological and cultural pathologies an earlier generation was prepared to confront. Today -- July 28, the 100th anniversary of the Great War's eruption -- that combination of pious duty and conscienceless brutality should be kept very much in mindJuly 28, 2014
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The bottom line in defence is that, as a nation, we don’t know what we want, don’t know how to get it, and would prefer not to think about it until the bombs go off. Until that threat materialises, the real enemies are sexism, homophobia and, predictably, an efficient materiel-procurement systemJuly 20, 2014
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By the time you read this article, the 2014-15 Budget […]
July 1, 2014
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Friedrich Nietzsche would have been intrigued by the current anxiety […]
July 1, 2014
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For half a century Australia’s finest scientific minds grappled with the evolutionary anomaly of Ompax spatuloides, never quite grasping they were the victims of a hoax presented to the world, well-cooked and eaten with relish, in the dining room of an outback Queensland pubAugust 23, 2014
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If there was a public policy that was inequitable, expensive, […]
July 1, 2014
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Gustave Flaubert used to write to one of his mistresses […]
July 1, 2014
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Interplay was performed at Southbank Theatre Melbourne from April 30 […]
July 1, 2014
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Brian Sewell is the often acerbic and always fearless art […]
July 1, 2014
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In their personal lives, the writer and the actor revealed qualities that connected them with ordinary people. One was a spirit of loyalty and concern for others, but it is the humility they shared that unites two men from very different backgrounds, each impervious to the temptations of fameAugust 31, 2014
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When J.B. Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls opened to excellent […]
July 1, 2014
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Officers’ swords these days have something of a remote historical […]
July 1, 2014
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Memories of apartheid South Africa have been in the air […]
July 1, 2014
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I stepped out of my front gate this morning and […]
July 1, 2014
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I write this during the second week of June and […]
July 1, 2014
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Drag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call by […]
July 1, 2014
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Treasure Planet by Hal Colebatch & Jessica Q. Fox Baen […]
July 1, 2014
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Charlie Twirl 16/8/1945 George Street, Sydney This is the […]
July 1, 2014
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Annunciation an ekphrasis on a painting by Christine Hirst Angel […]
July 1, 2014
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Remembering Moscow What do I remember of Moscow? Not […]
July 1, 2014
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Oturehua is no place to gawp. Celebrities don’t stop […]
July 1, 2014
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The Ballad of Timmy Mallon Timmy was slow at […]
July 1, 2014
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Joaquín Sorolla Museum, Madrid (for Katriona Fahey) Teacher looks […]
July 1, 2014
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Heaney’s wind Stopped by the cliff edge Standing close […]
July 1, 2014
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Pied Cormorant Stealthy head rises without warning body follows […]
July 1, 2014
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The Massacre The high school echoes with gunshot and deadly […]
July 1, 2014
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