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Colebatch fashion 36 The Fashion Industry: Not as Pretty as It Looks Nicholas T. Parsons science 41 The Paris Agreement is No Longer Relevant William Kininmonth 46 A Nuclear Option is Not Too Late for Australia Graham Pinn 50 Junk Science and the Sugar Tax Swindle Satyajeet Marar defence 52 Gaia and Ares: Climate Change and the Future of War Michael Evans society 60 Women Can Be as Violent as Men Augusto Zimmermann tribute 67 To Serve Them All His Days Mark McGinness history 71 Decoding King Arthur and the Grail Elizabeth Beare books 81 The Bootle Boy by Les Hinton Peter Smith 84 So Far, So Good by Ross Fitzgerald & Antony Funnell Edward Cranswick 86 The Vanished Land by Richard Zachariah; Narrapumelap by Jennifer O’Donnell Robert Murray television 88 Michael Portillo’s Homage to Victorian Britain Joe Dolce literature 94 Words May Fly Abroad: The Unique Career of J.L. Carr John Whitworth 98 Australia Cor Unum Diana Figgis poetry 102 The Voice of Pablo Neruda David Mason story 107 Painting with My Father Robyn O’Sullivan sweetness & light 111 Tim Blair Poetry 17: Bingham’s Ghost; Verticals Les Murray; I Would if I Could Gwyneth Lewis; 22: Four haiku Gary Hotham; 31: Dry Rot Jamie Grant; 43: The Calmness of Despair Katherine Spadaro; 44: Them Shoes; Meditations on Emptiness Andrew Lansdown; 58: Tropical Storm Katherine Spadaro; 59: Throwing Stones at a Nice Moon; Vibrations; Saguaro Carolyn Evans Campbell; 70: Sixteen is a Very Difficult Age Libby Sommer; 80: Beach of Memory Katherine Spadaro; 93: Old Age Gwyneth Lewis; 97: Distinguished Transported Joe Dolce; 100: Haiku Gary Hotham; 101: Beyond Posterity Jamie Grant Letters Lux Veritatis Sir: It is sad news that the Ramsay Editor Centre’s proposal of a degree in Keith Windschuttle Indigenous Censorship Western civilisation at the Austral- [email protected] ian National University was rejected.