Editions: 2009

December 2009 Volume LIII, No. 12

What’s Wrong with Australian Fiction?

David Free
That Was It
Neil McDonald
Lawnmower
Todd Hardy
Hanging On to the Bitter End
Jack Robertson
Dreamer
Sophie Masson
Last Rite for a White
Derek Fenton

November 2009 Volume LIII, No. 11

From Red China to Reagan’s America

Ben-Peter Terpstra
Confronting the Confrontationalists
Chad Swanson
The Year I Nearly Went to India
Bruce Dawe
The Most Accurate Prediction in History
Bernard Levin
The Frederic Manning Revival
Laurie Hergenhan
Giant Bamboo
Andrew Lansdown

October 2009 Volume LIII, No. 10

The Extraordinary Robert Conquest

John Whitworth
The Mole and the Letter
Michael Connor
In Candide’s Garden
Peter Coleman
A Spoonful of Acacia Honey
Dikra Ridha
The Museum against Democracy
David Barnett
Silent Magic
Neil McDonald

September 2009 Volume LIII, No. 9

How Derivatives Brought On the Crash

Lincoln Wright
Blue Poles and Mediocrity
Chad Swanson
Watermelon
Janine Fraser
Utopia, Superstition and Keynes
Peter Smith
What Shall We Do with Our Lives?
Peter Coleman
Unfinished Symphony
Bert Almon

July - August 2009 Volume LIII, No. 7-8

Cloning the Thylacine

Allen Greer
Bloody Diamonds
John Eppel
Science and Its Limits
D.M. Armstrong
Religions in Decline and in the Ascendant
Patrick Morgan
What Would Keynes Say Now?
P.D. Jonson
The Neo-Socialism of the Twenty-First Century
Steven Kates

June 2009 Volume LIII, No. 6

Gallipoli: Second Front in the History Wars

Mervyn F. Bendle
Rich as Fiction?
Philippa Martyr
Cloth
Chrissie Gittins
Following Keynes to Disaster
Hugh Morgan
A Chinese Lear on a quivering rock
Michael Connor
The unimportance of mountains
Peter Coghill

May 2009 Volume LIII, No. 5

Three-sided stories

Michael Connor
Greaseproof Rose
Les Murray
Bill Stanner and the End of Aboriginal High Culture
Keith Windschuttle
Australian Apologetics for Islam
Peter Day
Ten Haiku
Gary Hotham
A Bill of Wrongs
John Izzard

April 2009 Volume LIII, No. 4

How to Win in Afghanistan

Justin Kelly
A New White Knight
Neil McDonald
Sleep, Walker
Patrick Walsh
A New Policy Direction for Climate Change
Bob Carter
Revenue Raising
Michael Wilding
The Wonder
John Whitworth

March 2009 Volume LIII, No. 3

A Marathon for Australian Art

Patricia Anderson
More Control, Less Prosperity
Des Moore
Australia: Echoes of Xavier Herbert
Laurie Hergenhan
The High Price of PC Power
Ray Evans & Tom Quirk
The Great Australian Folk Song That Wasn’t
Keith McKenry
Obama and the Weathermen
Mervyn F. Bendle

January - February 2009 Volume LIII, No. 1-2

War and the City in the New Urban Century

Michael Evans
Pale Imitations
Neil McDonald
Sea Shanty
Philippa Martyr
A Soldier’s View of the Iraq War
Michael O’Connor
Manna
Leon Trainor
Jim’s Monologue
Geoff Page