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The Intelligent Student's Guide to Australia Q ua dr a nt I R33011 $8.90 ustralia ctober 2016 AU A O m. O .c N g I RENODESI V ol.60 N o.10 O ctober 2016 The Intelligent Student’s DGuideavid Flint to Australia Australia and Liberalism: Are They Compatible? Tony Abbott, Peter Costello The Éminence Grise of Vladimir Putin Salvatore babones ANZAC & ITS ENEMIES Democracy versus the Post-Democrats James Kierstead, C.J. Ryan THE HISTORY WAR ON Is the God Delusion a Delusion? AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL IDENTITY Harry Gelber, Augusto Zimmermann, Simon P. Kennedy Jean Dutourd and the Forgotten France The Anzacs died in vain in an imperialist war and their legend atricia zarias is a reactionary mythology that justifies the class, gender, and racial P A oppression that is tearing Australian society apart. On Amy Schumer James McCann So say the anti-Anzacs led by a former prime minister, influential academics, intellectuals, the ABC and other sections of the media. On Ian Callinan Mark McGinness They are determined to destroy the legend and ruin the Centennial On Rashomon Christopher Heathcote commemorations of Gallipoli and the Great War. On an Australian spy Michael Connor In this book, Mervyn F. Bendle explores the origins of the Anzac legend and exposes the century-long campaign waged against it. I Photographs © Australian War memorial Poetry Russell Erwin, Margaret Bradstock, Suzanne Edgar, Knute Skinner, Ivan Head, R.J. Stove, Barbara Fisher For you, or AS A gIFT $44.95 Reviews I Robert Murray, Jane Sutton I ONLINE www.quadrant.org.au/store Fiction Sean O’Leary POST Quadrant, 2/5 Rosebery Place, Balmain NSW 2041, Australia Letters I Environment I Science I Literature I Economics I Religion I Media PhONE (03) 8317 8147 FAX (03) 9320 9065 Theatre I Philosophy I film I Society I History I Politics I Education I Health 33011_QBooks_Ads_V3.indd 8 13/03/2015 5:31 pm 33011 R RENODESIGN.COM.AU AUSTRaLIa’s SECRET WaR HOw UNIONISTS SaBOTaGED OUR TROOPS IN wORLD waR II HAL COLEBATCH’s new book, Australia’s Secret War, tells the shocking, true, but until now largely suppressed and hidden story of the war waged from 1939 to 1945 by a number of key Australian trade unions — against their own society and against the men and women of their own country’s fighting forces during the perils of World War II. Every major Australian warship was targeted by strikes, go-slows and sabotage at home. Australian soldiers fighting in New Guinea and the Pacific went without food, radio equipment and ammunition because of union strikes. Photographs © Australian War Memorial Waterside workers disrupted loading of supplies to the troops and pilfered from ships’ cargoes and soldiers’ personal effects. Other strikes by rail workers, iron workers, coal miners, and even munitions workers and life-raft builders, badly impeded Australia’s war effort. FOR YOU, OR AS a GIfT $44.95 ONLINE www.quadrant.org.au/store POST Quadrant, Locked Bag 1235, North Melbourne VIC 3051, Australia PHone (03) 8317 8147 FAX (03) 9320 9065 October2016 No.530 VolumeLx,Number10 Felicity St John Moore, Peter Gilet, Rod Moran Letters 2 John O’Sullivan Chronicle 3  Anthony Daniels ASTRINGENCIES 5  David Flint Australia of Pillars Six The history 8  Stephen H. Balch West the Saved Islam How 14   Tony Abbott Alive Reform Keeping politics 18  James Kierstead Democracy with Wrong Nothing There’s 21   C.J. Ryan Say Our Have All Us Let 24   Salvatore Babones Regret Russian foreignaffairs 28  Daryl McCann War Obama’s 36   Michael Connor High Parramatta from Spy The espionage 44  Hunt Christie Davies Witch Paedophile Great The London: from Letter correspondent 48  Harry Gelber Universe the and Man God, on Reflections Brief religion 52  Simon P. Kennedy Christianity with Problem Liberalism’s 58   Augusto Zimmermann Terrorism Muslim and Freedom Religious 63   Gary Furnell Resilience Essential Nature’s and Activists Anxious environment 69  Peter R. Clyne Language for Battle the and Terrorism language 74  Coleman Peter Costello William Only in Australia edited by books 77  Mark McGinness Callinan Ian by Belvedere Woman 80   James McCann Schumer Amy The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by 83   Robert Murray Page Geoff by Plevna 85   Jane Sutton Dyer Geoff by White Sands 86   Tide Patricia Azarias the Against literature 88  Neil McDonald Noir Film Romeo and Juliet as film 97  Rashomon Christopher Heathcote Kurosawa’s and Guilt War Japanese 99   Sean O’Leary Ambon story 104  Jenny Stewart Away and Home wrap-up 111  the in Clock The 13: Margaret Bradstock; telescope via Moon The 7: Poetry  Rented Apartment Knute Skinner; 17: Daddy, please don’t go Saxby Pridmore; 23: A Popular Song Suzanne Edgar; 26: At the Side Altar Knute Skinner; 27: Yeats’s Pond; Inside the Watertank Ivan Head; 35: Firelight in the Garden Suzanne Edgar; 39: Chat with the Whitest Cat Alan Gould; 40: Sightings Russell Erwin; 43: A Bird Watcher Suzanne Edgar; 47: The Dead about Us; My Cat Knute Skinner; 50: A Fish Nobody Knew Carolyn Evans Campbell; 51: Thoughts on the Recent Murders of Police Officers R.J. Stove; 57: White Barbara Fisher; 62: Looking for Uncle Max Dan Guenther; 73: At Reedy Creek Suzanne Edgar; 75: Ready or Not Alan Gould; 76: Other Worlds Margaret Bradstock; 87: In a Restaurant in Nova Gorica Knute Skinner; 110: Sydney to Melbourne Barbara Fisher; Avalanche of Oranges Carolyn Evans Campbell Letters has been played using a number of victim cards. Now, however, one “victim” group has appeared with devastating speed and it is any- Editor Apolitical Brides thing but a victim. It is Islam and John O’Sullivan it is steadily gaining control of the [email protected] SIR: I am grateful to Christopher West. Speed on the part of Islam, LitEr ary Editor Heathcote for his thorough dis- and of its allies on the Left, is nec- Les Murray missal (March 2016) of attempts essary, because ordinary people are dEput y Editor by feminist academics and curators also waking up with astonishing George Thomas to reinterpret and politicise Arthur speed themselves. This, I would Boyd’s Bride series. say, is why Muslim migrants are Contributing Editors The Angry Penguins paint- being poured into our countries Books: Peter Coleman ers believed in artistic autonomy. with such urgency. Film: Neil McDonald They were deliberately apolitical, We are therefore faced with a Theatre: Michael Connor partly because they believed that simple choice. We can either let CoLumnists art transcended politics and partly things take their course and cease Anthony Daniels because of their bitter fight and to be Christians, can become effec- Jenny Stewart narrow victory over the commu- tively slaves in our own lands, or Editor, Qua dr ant onLinE nist Realists in the Contemporary we can fight. And if we choose to Roger Franklin Art Society who demanded social, fight, we must throw everything [email protected] as opposed to individual and per- we have into our effort and support sonal, “responsibility”. parties who oppose Islam and the ditor in hiEf E - -C Attempts to politicise the Bride Left, and if we fail to win elections, Keith Windschuttle series serve only to diminish the we can fight in the inevitable civil original vision of Arthur Boyd, war against the Left and Islam. Subscriptions whose creative force came out of Either we saddle up and go on a Phone: (03) 8317 8147 personal experience, including lit- crusade, or Christian civilisation Fax: (03) 9320 9065 erature, the old masters and the will go under and we will become Post: Quadrant Magazine, Bible. slaves in a giant new caliphate. Locked Bag 1235, Peter Gilet North Melbourne VIC 3051 Felicity St John Moore E-mail: quadrantmagazine@ South Yarra, Vic via e-mail data.com.au A New Crusade Correction Publisher SIR: Sometimes as Christians, in Sir: May I make a small correc- Quadrant (ISSN 0033-5002) is published ten times a year by certain exceptional cases, we have tion to my piece carried in the July- Quadrant Magazine Limited, to go to war. A crusade is such a August issue, “A Forensic Footnote Suite 2/5 Rosebery Place, war, when we are not defending to the Forrest River Affair”? In it I Balmain NSW 2041, Australia our borders against an invasion of mistakenly named the legal coun- ACN 133 708 424 the normal kind, but are faced with sel for the two police officers impli- a system of such malignity that we cated in the 1926 Forrest River Production cannot let it flourish anywhere. murder allegations as William Things have, I believe, in our mod- Nairn. In fact, it was Walter Nairn. Design Consultant: Reno Design ern world, now come to such a head Nairn was an interesting fel- Art Director: Graham Rendoth that it is time to go on a crusade. low. He had a legal career in Perth Printer: Ligare Pty Ltd For half a century now our before entering politics, serving 138–152 Bonds Road, leaders in Australia have exercised in the Commonwealth parlia- Riverwood NSW 2210 their duty of care mainly towards ment with both the Nationalist Cover: Colours of Australia a few minority groups. We, the and United Australia parties, ris- “Water Lily” common people, have been stead- ing to be speaker of the House of ily deprived of work, adequate sal- Representatives from 1940 to 1943. www.quadrant.org.au aries, housing, proper health care Rod Moran and education. Yanchep, WA This game of Strip Jack Naked 2 Quadrant October 2016 C h r o n i C l e John o’Sullivan ifty-five years ago Angus Maude, at different which he has “come to value so deeply”.
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