July - August 2012 Volume LVI, No. 7-8

A Date to Mark with Regret

Keith Windschuttle
Is the Universe a Closed System?
Peter Barclay
Squanderers and Vandals
Hal G.P. Colebatch
Evening
Barbara Fisher
The Missionary with 150 Wives
James Franklin
Clueless in Mangoland
Ian McFadyen

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Helen J. Wilson, Suzanne Edgar, Robyn Williams, Philip Webb, Matthew Heeney, Tony Minchin, James Guest

Art

Books

Squanderers and Vandals

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Clueless in Mangoland

Ian McFadyen

Blameless Yet Talented

Philippa Martyr

The Realm of Ozymandias

Benjamin Jellis

Chronicle

A Date to Mark with Regret

Keith Windschuttle

Commentary

Our Galactic Significance

John O’Connor

Environment

Fiction

The Final Act

Bernadette Belej

First Person

Health

My Hands Are My Heart

Iain Bamforth

Ryan

Society

Theatre

Theatrical Haze

Michael Connor

Poetry

Evening

Barbara Fisher

Leaf Shadows

Barbara Fisher

Silver Tussockgrass

Adrienne Eberhard

Toy Boy

John Whitworth

Blackout

Susan Adams

Sorrow of God

Chris King

A Decent Skin

Knute Skinner

Hook, Line and Sinker

Derek Fenton

Greeks Bearing Gifts

Michael Sariban

Particulars

Knute Skinner

Dog in the Road;

Knute Skinner

A Visit to Cambridge

Peter Hansen

Something in the Grass

Knute Skinner

Three Poems

Peter Hansen

from Stroke Poems

Aidan Coleman

Dropping Osip Mandelsh’tam

Christopher Nailer