Keith Windschuttle’s long inquiry into Larissa Behrendt’s family’s background is ultimately irrelevant to the positions she occupies.
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Hussein: I don’t buy Quadrant — but I still pay for it
How do you reconcile the need to know what the enemy is saying with the prohibition against tipping money -– even small change -– into their war-chest? asks Shakira Hussein.
Guy Rundle: Windschuttle screams blue murder over Quadrant funding cut
Quadrant has had its Australia Council Grant cut by $15,000 and is screaming blue murder and about the fix being in, because every left wing magazine –- Overland, Meanjin(!), Australian Book Review (!!) — has seen its funding maintained or bumped up.
Quadrant blames political decision for funding cut
Conservative magazine Quadrant is accusing the Australia Council of a “patently political decision” in cutting its funding from $50,000 to $30,000, thus threatening its literary content. But was it politics that caused the cut?
Guy Rundle: Windschuttle hung out to dry on the rabbit-proof fence
Keith Windschuttle’s appearance in last week’s Oz Spectator may be the first example of Howard-era retro-chic, in an article focused obsessively on the 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence
Guy Rundle: A bag of douche
In this month’s Quadrant, David Free has an interesting take on Clive James’s latest collection of essays…
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… Quadrant
This week’s coveted golden statuette goes to Quadrant for the their thoughtful contribution to The Monthly saga.
Quadrant redefines global warming
Bob Carter writes in the April issue of Quadrant: Get this. First, there has been no recent global warming in the common meaning of the term, for world average temperature has cooled for the last ten years…
Sharon Gould hoax: Quadrant and Wilson respond
The March issue of Quadrant is out with a response from editor Keith Windschuttle to the hoax affair that made his previous issue a best seller, writes Margaret Simons.
Peter Howson, minister for ‘trees, boongs and poofters’
Howson lost his seat in 1972 and left Canberra unmourned and unmissed. But some 30 years later, the culture-history wars saw him resurrected by Quadrant, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Windschuttle’s ‘gotcha’ game will haunt him
There’s nothing shameful about the editorial staff of a little magazine making a mistake, writes Jeff Sparrow, but glaring double standards can’t be ignored.
Quadrant: It’s ok to be a Nazi if you’re pretty
With Victoria’s Liberal Party in trouble over anti-Semitic slurs, an interesting contradiction appears in this month’s Quadrant, writes Katherine Wilson.
