July - August 2011 Volume LV, No. 7-8

The Degradation of the Public Service

John Stone
The Backpack
Libby Sommer
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Two Giuseppes
Joe Dolce
The Labor Sideshow
Daryl McCann
Inside the Afghan War
Mishka Gora
Two Poems
Brian Hawkins

Letters

Lettters to the Editor

Suzanne Edgar, H.A. Willis, Donat Gallagher, Geoffrey Lehmann, Richard Clifford, Ray Evans, Stan Scott, Michael Warby, John Dawson, Robert McLaughlin

Chronicle

Keith Windschuttle

July-August, 2011

Culture

Economics

Defending the Faith

Phillip Hilton

Fiction

Cutting-Out Expedition

Hal G.P. Colebatch

The Backpack

Libby Sommer

Film

Flare Path to the Stars

Neil McDonald

First Person

Short Takes IX

Alan Gould

Media

Religion

God versus Allah

Mark Durie

Ryan

Science

Theatre

Western Civilisation

Poetry

Rousseau and the Tiger

John Whitworth

Teenage Vampire

John Whitworth

Two Poems

Brian Hawkins

My Soul to Keep

Joe Dolce

Outback Funeral

Cecilia Morris

In the Manawatu

Jennifer Compton

Great Aunt

Paula Jones

Old Cheese and Pears

Paula Jones

Forget his eyes

Margaret Harvey

Wet-blanket month

Margaret Harvey

Henrik

Margaret Harvey

Go to Tassie

Margaret Harvey

Escape Route

Sebastian Schloessingk

Ocean Dreaming

Paula Jones

Holding a Book in Your Hand

Margaret Harvey

On the Island of Cuba

Margaret Harvey

Gender Bending

John Whitworth