October 2011 Volume LV, No. 10

Why the Governor-General is Australia’s Head of State

David Smith
The African Obamas
Robert Murray
Adoption is Better than Abortion
Kevin McGovern
Ill Winds from Bloated Universities
Peter Ryan
The Greens’ Threat to Religious Freedom
Greg Smith
Four poems by Charles Baudelaire
Jan Owen

Letters

Letters to the Editor

David Smith, James Litchfield, David Daintree, Hector Macdonald, John Furedy, Alan Robson, Mick Koster, M. Gordon, Hal Colebatch

Books

Opening Life’s Windows

Peter Coleman

Chronicle

Keith Windschuttle

October, 2011

Film

An Epic of the Civil War

Neil McDonald

First Person

In the Tigers’ Lair

John Whitehall

Health

Let’s Talk About Dying

Michael Giffin

Music

The Earl of Harewood

Christopher Dawson

Philosophy and Ideas

Politics

Society

Story

A Dancing Man

Douglas Fry

Theatre

The Presbyterian Musical

Michael Connor

Poetry

Capital

Alan Gould

Keeble’s Bush

Jennifer Compton

Gaia the Goddess

John Whitworth

Thingies

John Whitworth

Hagia Sophia

Peter Skrzynecki

Red Geraniums

Peter Skrzynecki

Confess

Melinda Smith

Roadside Memorials

Melinda Smith

Hip Replacement

Ashlley Morgan-Shae

Shell Crab Haiku

Andrew Lansdown