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Feb272016

CANBERRA OBSERVED Barnaby Joyce likely to give Cabinet a kick-along

POLITICS, UncategorizedFebruary 27, 2016

Some ministerial own goals and the departure of two senior ministers have gifted Malcolm Turnbull the line-up he needs to take to the election and beyond. Barnaby Joyce While the past couple of months have been described in the media as messy for the new Turnbull Government, the political stability the nation craves should come now that he has a settled fresh team in the Nationals with Barnaby Joyce at the helm, as well as having had the opportunity to promote worthy younger MPs to his frontbench to replace three ministers who have blotted their copybooks. All political observers and…

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Feb272016

MUSIC Oppositions reconciled in logical harmony

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSFebruary 27, 2016

The New Goldberg Variations By Joe Chindamo and Zoe Black Alfi Records $13.99 Reviewed by David James At first glance, the Baroque aesthetic and Post-modernist aesthetic would seem to be deeply opposed. The Baroque world was based on the certainty of a divine order, which became the solid basis for a level of ornateness and organization that has rarely been matched. Post-modernism is based on fluidity: the conviction that everything is contingent, perpetually unresolved. But in one sense there is a commonality, at least in terms of method. In the art of both eras there is a tendency…

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Feb272016

BOOK REVIEW Alarms and arms

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKS, UncategorizedFebruary 27, 2016

AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE by David Archibald (Connor Court, Ballarat, 2015) Paperback: 258 pages ISBN: 9781925138849AUD$29.95 Reviewed by Hal G.P. Colebatch Since its foundation, the publishing house of Connor Court has built up an excellent stable of writers, many of whom would otherwise be condemned to totenschweigtaktic (death by silence) by the left-dominated literary industry. Australia’s Defence by David Archibald is an impressive and alarming book by a well-qualified scientist with a prodigious grasp of defence facts. Since the Turnbull regime appointed a Minister of Defence (in Marise Payne) with no discernible record of interest or qualifications in…

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POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURFebruary 27, 2016

More to Mannix Sir, Colin Jory’s review of Brenda Niall’s Mannix omits to ask why she interviewed two laicised priests, but not Cardinal Pell, about Archbishop Mannix’s life or why no reference was made to the Cardinal’s panegyric at the funeral Mass for Bob Santamaria. It would have been interesting to know what Mannix would have made of a number of key Movement works – AD2000, the Thomas More Centre and the Australian Family Association. Some inkling of His Grace’s thinking could have been derived from his strong support for the Institute of Social Order (Belloc House), initially led by…

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