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Sep 15 2011

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Oh dear, Robert Manne seems unhappy with Quadrant Online.


The Silence of the Wolves

Robert Manne

Ever since I parted company with conservative Australia, I have grown accustomed, every time I so much as sneeze, to a volley of savage mockery. In recent times it has come principally from Andrew Bolt and his merry band of devoted bloggers; from Dr Gerard Henderson, not so much in his respectable Dr Jekyll mode in the Sydney Morning Herald but in his Mr Hyde persona at Media Watchdog; from Keith Windschuttle and the far Right Quadrant Online; and from Christopher Pearson, Janet Albrechtsen, Greg Sheridan and the ‘cut and paste’ crew at the Australian.

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