Quadrant articles from January 1 2009

Quadrant archives from January 1 2009

Dreaming and nightmares in Central Australia.(Television)(portraying Aboriginals on First Australians)(Essay)
January 1, 2009... I WAS GRATIFIED to be approached by the producer-director of First Australians, Rachel Perkins, who wanted to use material from my self-published account of some of the events in Central Australia in the 1880s, God, Guns and Government on the...

War and the city in the new urban century.(Defence)(Essay)
January 1, 2009... No matter how many valuable functions the city has furthered, it has also served, throughout most of its history, as a container of organized violence and a transmitter of war. --Lewis Mumford, The City in History (1961) London, his...

Arguments against abstraction.(modern and abstract art)
January 1, 2009... IN LAST SEPTEMBER's issue of Quadrant, Sydney lawyer Baron Alder turned his evidently energetic mind to the contentious issue of Australia's idea of itself, comparing the kind of image advanced in Russel Ward's The Australian Legend of 1958...

Scare campaigns and science reporting.(Science and media)
January 1, 2009... QUADRANT READERS will remember America's "science wars", spearheaded by the masterful Sokal hoax, a "hodgepodge of unsupported arguments, outright mistakes, and impenentrable jargon" designed to challenge standards of logic, truth and...

Paradox.(Poem)
January 1, 2009... PARADOX Rain and dark roads brew a black-tea storm: Waiting--waiting--you do not arrive-- My teacup-storm erupts--your phone unanswered-- Full-scale panic--flashing lights-- Tight-faced doctor--"he was in no pain"-- ...