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June2013 No.497 VolumeLVII,Number6 , Frank Pulsford, Jan Cooper, Damien Cremean, Sam Bateman Letters 2 Harvey Broadbent, John Williams Keith Windschuttle chronicle 5 Daryl McCann Legacy Rudd–Gillard the of Ruins the Raking politics 7 Michael O’Connor Issue Election an Be Not Will Defence Why 12 Ron Wilson Monash to Came Thatcher Margaret When 16 Robert Conquest James Clive of Verse Extraordinary The poetry 18 Gregory Haines Trailblazer a as Career Kramer’s Leonie biography 22 Peter Coleman (I) Arts Liberal the of Cultivation The universities 26 Keith Windschuttle (II) Arts Liberal the of Cultivation The 28 Julia Patrick Philosophy Sixties of Ravages Social The society 30 Christopher Akehurst Marriage of Faces Two The 34 Zachary Gorman Party Liberal the of Father Founding Forgotten The history 36 Exchange and Barter Truck, to Propensity the and Smith Adam economics 40 Ray Evans 44 Keynes as Social Philosopher Geoffrey Luck Wolfgang Kasper Alps the in Prosperity of Pocket A europe 50 Modernists Christopher Heathcote the of Exodus the and Clark Kenneth art 58 Stephen Buckle Theory Political Feminist in Spot Blind The philosophy&ideas 68 Michael Connor Affairs Family theatre 72 J.B. Paul Judiciary the and Powers Reserve The law 76 Michael Giffin Reason of Limitation The religion 79 Iain Bamforth Tree Upas The science 82 Maurice Nestor Shapes Storm Sounds, Storm firstperson 88 Best Overend 1937 Force, Police Volunteer Shanghai the with Duty On 92 Alan Gould Collected Neglected the and Anthology Ubiquitous The poetry 98 Neil McDonald Achievement Ealing The film 100 Morris Lurie Pain Show to Ways Many Are There story 105 Patrick Morgan Windle Kevin by Undesirable books 108 Tanveer Ahmed Kahn P. Jeffrey by Angst 109 Peter Ryan School Disadvantaged a of Story The ryan 111 ;Saxby Pridmore Sharpener Pencil The 17: Leon Trainor; Days Leaf 15: Poetry 21: The Larkin Manifesto John Whitworth; 25: Happy Make-Believe Liz McQuilkin; 35: In Hiding Jessie Bate; 48: Poem David Chandler; 49: Board Games John Whitworth; A Question of Priorities Trevor Bailey; 67: Reunion Jameson Dunne; 74: Unsung John Whitworth; 75: Redemption Mick Ringiari; 78: Ironwood Iain Bamforth; 81: Patience David Chandler; 86: The Bachelor Jennifer Compton; 87: Recently in a Restaurant Liz McQuilkin; Dash 8 from Armidale Ivan Head; 103: QLD 4069 Leon Trainor; 104: The Woman Who Mistook Her Husband for a Garden Patrick McCauley; swing = joy Ed Coletti; 107: Kiblat Iain Bamforth L e t t e r s the “squatters” and continued use of the term (Letters, May 2013). The image includes connotations of illegitimate political power and Editor wealth, and free or very cheap land Keith Windschuttle holdings. I would like to add to [email protected] More “Cultural Genocide”? Murray’s evidence from far western LitEr ary Editor SIR: Stephanie Jarrett (“Aboriginal New South Wales, known since Les Murray Liberation Through Integration”, 1884 as the Western Division. It is dEput y Editor April 2013) decries “The nation’s the region that some of Murray’s George Thomas policies of encouraging separa- Victorian pastoral lessees fled to tion, self-determination and cul- (he calls it “outback Riverina”) Contributing Editors tural continuity”. In the face of the after being driven out by govern- Books: Peter Coleman hysteria with which the “Stolen ment-supported selectors. Film: Neil McDonald Generation” myth was rammed White settlement began here Theatre: Michael Connor down our throats, why wouldn’t a later (in the 1840s and 1850s) than CoLumnist nation accused of genocide recoil in the more salubrious humid east- Peter Ryan from any policy which might ern regions, by which time legis- Editor, Qua dr ant onLinE weaken any aspect of traditional lators and land bureaucrats were Roger Franklin culture? getting their act together about [email protected] “Greater commitment is needed white legal title. Few early settlers to bring about cultural changes”, occupied land without legal title, Ch air m an of thE Ms Jarrett tells us. No, Ms Jarrett. or if they did, they were waiting to boar d of directors We have been there and done that get it, and pay the government (the Elizabeth Prior Jonson and our purest motives have been Crown) for it, at first by tendering, Subscriptions grotesquely distorted to such an often a difficult and expensive proc- extent that we have been seriously ess. One young man travelled east Phone: (03) 8317 8147 accused of genocide. The children from Adelaide with his new bride Fax: (03) 9320 9065 that were saved from the very cir- to claim land on Lake Victoria Post: Quadrant Magazine, cumstances which Ms Jarrett now near present-day Wentworth, but Locked Bag 1235, deplores are now classed as “stolen”. after waiting months for legal title North Melbourne VIC 3051 And the lie persists. After Keith they returned to South Australia. E-mail: quadrantmagazine@ Windschuttle’s expose of the fab- In addition to successful tendering, data.com.au rication of the “Stolen Generation”, lease rentals were an important there is no excuse for anyone in source of New South Wales gov- Publisher continuing to peddle it: apart from ernment revenue. Quadrant (ISSN 0033-5002) is pandering politicians, that is, apol- Legal title was desired in order published ten times a year by ogising on our behalf for something to assert rights as against other Quadrant Magazine Limited, that didn’t happen. land-seekers, but later, title-holders Suite 2/5 Rosebery Place, Ms Jarrett tells us that “what- wanted better title than a short- Balmain NSW 2041, Australia ever our guilt” we must be guided term lease so that they could bor- ACN 133 708 424 by certain principles, which she sets row to finance their land use and out with admirable candour. Given occupation. But from the earliest Production our explicitly assumed “guilt”, her times of white occupation, regard- remedies are nothing more than a less of the length of their legal title Design Consultant: Reno Design blueprint for “cultural genocide”, as (twelve years renewable after 1842, Art Director: Graham Rendoth we have been taught to understand then five years renewable after 1861) Printer: Ligare Pty Ltd the meaning of that term. they bought and sold on a private 138–152 Bonds Road, market. Frank Pulsford Riverwood NSW 2210 Sir John Robertson’s famous Aspley, Qld Cover: Colours of Australia legislation of 1861 introduced “Grey Gum” “selectors” to the whole of New Squatters and Selectors South Wales. They could walk www.quadrant.org.au onto any area of a lessee’s land SIR: Good on Robert Murray for (except any freeholded area) and questioning the received image of claim, “squat on” if you like, up to 2 Quadrant June 2013 Letters 640 acres (more later). This was no Labor parliamentarians based in eration in 1901. There is nothing an great threat to those already in the the populous mining towns of SC can do that cannot be done just Western Division, 640 acres being Cobar and Broken Hill excoriated as well by any other senior law- too small for a living by grazing in the “squatters”, particularly Sidney yer. Yet people continue to engage this low-rainfall region, and selec- Kidman. No matter that Kidman them—less so these days, and that tors were largely hoteliers or rural had entered the Division as late as may help to explain the drive into contractors. The 1884 Act, however, 1910 and no matter that he had pur- Asia—adding hugely to the costs changed this. It resumed approxi- chased all his landholdings on the of litigation and ultimately impact- mately half of the pastoral lessees’ market! “Largeness” was just one of ing on the serious issue of access land and invited land-seekers to his many sins. to justice. SCs (or QCs) should apply for, without prior survey or Such was the hegemony of go the way of the old serjeants-at- advertisement, on the resumed “democracy” and “closer settle- law: they were simply phased out, half, up to 10,240 acres which ment”, it was a Country Party the last one being Lord Lindley, they could hold under “homestead minister’s legislation in 1934 that although Serjeant Buzfuz still lives lease” for fifteen years (renewable). took even more land from larger on in the writings of Dickens. Gazettal of ministerial approval, leaseholders and drove Kidman Damien Cremean along with the Act, served as title. out of western New South Wales. Melbourne, Vic The land was free except for (later) Much later, rural commentators survey fees and payment of the there dared to suggest that the existing lessee for “improvements”. large landholding “companies” that Sarah Paine The process thus resembled their had replaced some early landhold- predecessors’ in that they claimed ers, often through mortgagee pos- Sir: Paul Monk in his article land before survey and without session exercises from the 1890s on, “Portents of War Between China government advertisement, but had had “the right idea” in terms of and Japan” (April 2013) refers without even the cost of tendering. their scale of operations, enabling extensively and approvingly to Like Murray’s “squatters” of them to move stock to fresh land the work of Professor S.C. Paine the 1870s, pastoral lessees, as they before pasture and land degrada- from the US Naval War College. were now dubbed by the Act, were tion set in. He refers to the author as “he” powerless to stop this legislation. and talks about “his work” and Jan Cooper However they formed a Sydney- “his new book”. Professor Paine via e-mail based association to lobby about the is in fact Professor Sarah Paine, Act for some ten years afterwards, a talented female academic with and in the 1890s they sent Charles The Anachronistic QC extensive experience in China, Dickens’s youngest son into parlia- Japan, Russia and Taiwan.