Peter Kocan, poet, novelist, critic, essayist and regular Quadrant contributor, has just published a new novel.
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‘Crossover’ novels are a big thing in publishing these days, since the success of children’s and YA writers such as Stephenie Meyer, JK Rowling and Philip Pullman, who have found readers on both sides of the age divide. But it’s also a controversial thing, at least for some critics.
I fully expected, even as a teen myself, to find the main cast irritating. I was wrong. They pull their roles off with aplomb, especially Caitlin Stasey’s Ellie, who, as the lead, carries the whole shebang on her shoulders.
Special delivery parcels, containing hair-dryers, frozen chicken dinners and high-dose Valium tablets are being rushed out by our Foreign Affairs Department to all Australian Embassies and Consular offices around the world.
Quadrant Online has reached a remarkable milestone. Its readership now amounts to more than one million page views per year. This makes Quadrant Online by far the most widely read website of any of the Australian journals of ideas and literature with which it competes, on either the left or right of the political spectrum.
On my list of winners is Tony Abbott. This was a historic result for any Opposition leader in Australia. Mr. Abbott took the Coalition from certain, and devastating, defeat to within inches of victory. His stature in the party, and his strategy of actually standing for a conservative platform, is now wholly above question.
Ben-Peter asked young libertarians and conservatives - John Humphreys, Jai Martinkovits, and Alex Butterworth - to comment on the election result.
With the election over, the Opposition largely disappeared behind a wall of media (mis)representation, again with special emphasis on the ABC. There was much news that was designed to discredit the Coalition with no one there to respond beyond the three-second sound bite.
Julia Gillard’s conduct in offering a ministerial position to the Independent, Rob Oakeshott while he was deciding who to support in creating a minority Government has remarkable parallels to the actions that caused the New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner to resign in 1992.
Professor Dennis Altman – a gay rights pioneer – has likened the activists’ obsession with the marriage issue, as “self-indulgent crap.”
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