June 2015 Volume LIX, Number 6, No. 517
D.H. Lawrence in and on Australia
Enjoy the Moment, Mr Cameron
The Meaning of Anzac Day
The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science
The Budget Bounce
Hooked on Students
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Sir: I am grateful for the mention of our D.H. […]June 1, 2015
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The pollsters didn't foresee a Tory victory, least of all the sweeping triumph that allowed Conservatives to shed their coalition with Liberal Democrats and govern in their own right. For the moment, amid the cheers and grand plans, no one is thinking of UKIP's rise. They shouldJune 1, 2015
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The Christian teaching that human suffering can be redemptive, that it need not be without meaning and can produce unexpected benefits, is the key to the Australian interpretation of the Anzacs. Let us today pray in gratitude for the bravery of so many men and women. And always, let us pray for peaceApril 25, 2021
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The great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting. The good drives out the bad, because experiments get replicated and hypotheses tested -- or so I used to think. Now, thanks largely to climate science, I see bad ideas can persist for decades, and surrounded by myrmidons of furious defenders they become intolerant dogmas
June 19, 2015
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Now that Abbott & Co are enjoying a resurgence in the polls and Bill Shorten's union past is casting its shadow, the usual suspects -- Fairfax and the ABC -- are beating up Joe Hockey for daring to note that house prices are high and likely to remain so until regulations are pared and supply increasedJune 10, 2015
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When I taught public policy, one of the key ideas […]
June 1, 2015
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The belief that their primary identity was French had put their lives at risk for no purpose. They couldn’t imagine that the Germans and a good many French made no such distinctions about Jews and were determined to kill off the lotJune 28, 2015
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The great attraction of Siberia for three centuries of settlers, free and otherwise, had been the chance to start afresh in a land where no one would ask too many questions about a person’s past. Shaking off history remains the oldest tradition of them allJune 8, 2015
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Strategy studies the relationship between time, positions, means and different […]
June 1, 2015
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The Aranda’s Pepa: An Introduction to Carl Strehlow’s Masterpiece Die […]
June 1, 2015
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Many schools fail because they are short on authority. Almost every new social crisis — be it obesity, road safety, child abuse, whatever -- prompts calls for more education, but few schools cope adequately with their prime and existing responsibility to promote order in the classroomAugust 20, 2015
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Regarding ethics, wisdom lies with the Christian critics of eugenics who repudiate treating humans as means to ends. Regarding government, the safest response to the new market eugenics is to leave choices to parents but regulate where necessary to protect children and social cohesionJune 24, 2015
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Quadrant's poetry editor has won the State Library of Queensland's Judith Wright Calanthe Award for his most recent book, 'Waiting for the Past'. In our June edition, Clive James hailed the collection and the poet "who fills the sky not just in his homeland but in all the world"October 10, 2015
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“Awake!” cried my mother in her bright Edinburgh voice, “for […]
June 1, 2015
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Four books by Brian Turner: Somebodies and Nobodies Vintage, 2002, […]
June 1, 2015
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Australians relish his work because he speaks to us of what we see and feel. This is deeper than mere vision because he lets us see things the way they are. A painter from another culture could not have arrived at these images. The temperament wouldn’t be correct.June 27, 2015
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It must be climate change, it’s raining Becketts. Earlier this […]
June 1, 2015
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I was not yet six years old when the Russians […]
June 1, 2015
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Cittamani is a Buddhist organisation formed to meet the needs […]
June 1, 2015
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Ill and housebound, our correspondent turned to the ABC for diversion, only to have his blood pressure further elevated by a litany of glib inaccuracies. An arrogant and smugly superior response to the polite suggestion that a correction would be in order did nothing to make him feel betterJune 4, 2015
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For a former teacher, what is most alarming about the […]
June 1, 2015
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Denounced by useful idiots, Australian novelist Peter Carey loudly in their vanguard, the author and Muslim apostate was accused of 'Islamophobia". This was ridiculous, as phobias are irrational fears and there is nothing unhinged in opposing the world's most troublesome, aggressive and intolerant creedJuly 1, 2015
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Bill: The Life of William Dobell by Scott Bevan Simon […]
June 1, 2015
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Anyone who argues in favour of small government—and who doesn’t […]
June 1, 2015
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Arl The first memorable thing about my accountant Arl […]
June 28, 2015
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Seasonal Rush Spring deceives and chases; the swooping magpie, […]
June 1, 2015
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Silver Pendant 1 Fallen A simple pendant, a […]
June 1, 2015
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Viewpoints Seven years old and fearless, I climbed to […]
June 1, 2015
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Protectors of the fairy garden Don’t stray from the […]
June 1, 2015
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When the owl came to Gunnamatta Park This rainy night […]
June 1, 2015
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A Limited Vocabulary We executed well, says Mike Hussey, […]
June 1, 2015
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Day breaks in dressing gowns In your double bed, […]
June 1, 2015
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The King’s Friend (for Edward VIII) It is my […]
June 1, 2015
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Seagulls Anton Chekhov was a connoisseur of brothels— you […]
June 1, 2015
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The Song of the House This is the song […]
June 1, 2015
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Butcherbird How can such a name sing heaven? Tuxedo […]
June 1, 2015
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A Brief History of Umami In the fourth century […]
June 28, 2015
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