November 2009 Volume LIII, No. 11

The Future of the Pax Americana

Daryl McCann
The Journey of Beethoven’s Hair
Agnes Selby
In Praise of Etymology
Suzanne Edgar
Irving Kristol – the Australian Connection
Owen Harries
Where Does Language Come From?
Michael Giffin
Bloodlines
Robyn Lance

Books

Refusing to Be Victims

J. J. Spigelman

Standard Habbie

Jamie Grant

Dividing the Unknown

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Defence

Women in Combat – Again!

Michael O’Connor

Education

“Uncle Bob”

Mark Lopez

Fiction

The Senate Vacancy

Patricia Shaw

The Red Packets

Ouyang Yu

First Person

Blacklisted

Tom Burton

History

Kevin Does History

Gregory Melleuish

The Tanah Merah Exiles in Australia

Ross Fitzgerald & Graham Irvine

Language

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Michael O'Connor, Dawn Moss, James Allan, Murray Mitchell

Literature

The Frederic Manning Revival

Laurie Hergenhan

Religion

Ryan

Society

Poetry

In Praise of Etymology

Suzanne Edgar

Bloodlines

Robyn Lance

Superstition

Shane McCauley

Eels

Anna Buck

My Grandpa … And Yours

Alison McNaught

Cracking the Shits

Edith Speers

Elephant

Alison McNaught

As-best-os

Ashlley Morgan-Shae

Three Poems

Suzanne Edgar

Delivery Driver

Alison McNaught

Five Short Poems

Jennifer Compton

Table of Contents

Jennifer Compton

Two Poems: 2

Melinda Smith

Two Poems: 1

Melinda Smith

Giant Bamboo

Andrew Lansdown