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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”.