January - February 2010 Volume LIV, No. 1-2

Stoicism and the Profession of Arms

Michael Evans
The Political Philosophy of Tony Abbott
Damien Freeman
The Rain Beginning
Margaret Barbalet
Toledo Tournament
Graeme Hetherington
Eleven Decent Years
John Stone
John Beatty
Lucy K. Hahn

Art

More Director than Writer

Patricia Anderson

Books

The Freshly-Iced Sponge

Mark McGinness

The Calm After The Storm

Patrick Morgan

Putting The Boot In

Dennis O'Keeffe

Celebrating The Positive

Hal G.P. Colebatch

An Irish Swan’s Story

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

No Cheating Now

Jennifer Compton

Fiction

The Rain Beginning

Margaret Barbalet

John Beatty

Lucy K. Hahn

Film

Inside Wake in Fright

Neil McDonald

First Person

Short Takes VII

Alan Gould

The Last Cat

C.A.R. Hills

History

A Nation Begins

John Izzard

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Bill James, Digby Ricci, Donald G. Runcie, Andrew McIntyre, Nigel Morris

Literature

Dickens on Child Abuse

Michael Giffin

Music

A Symphony for Australia

Rhoderick McNeill

Philosophy and Ideas

Politics

Eleven Decent Years

John Stone

What’s Left of the Left?

Mervyn F. Bendle, John Dawson, Bill Muehlenberg, John Muscat, Andrew Norton, Angela Shanahan, Jason Soon

Religion

Ryan

Society

Poetry

Toledo Tournament

Graeme Hetherington

Preparations

Knute Skinner

A Suitable Guest

Knute Skinner

Mozart

Elizabeth Smither

Meeting

Elizabeth Smither

A Response

Kevin Densley

Orf

Rod Usher

Deck-Chairs

Barbara Fisher

Whiteout

Rod Usher

Genealogy

Katherine Gallagher

The Zappeion

Graeme Hetherington

Birds Bathing

Barbara Fisher

Six A.M.

Knute Skinner

The Gravelled Path

Knute Skinner

The wedding lawn

Elizabeth Smither

Prey

Rod Usher

One Hour of Light

Dikra Ridha