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1The Voice of Our Disquietude 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 27 no. 1 1968; (p. 103-105)' The change in the calibre of Australian students as compared to earlier times is discussed. Among successive generations of students, temperament is variable, whereas their average intellectual calibre is almost the same.' (Publication abstract)
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2The Politics of Action 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 27 no. 1 1968; (p. 106-108)'The next section of this eleven-part series of articles. The change in the calibre of Australian students as compared to earlier times is discussed. Among successive generations of students, temperament is variable, whereas their average intellectual calibre is almost the same.' (Publication abstract)
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3The Monstrous Accent on Youth 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Autumn vol. 27 no. 1 1968; (p. 109-10) Meanjin Anthology 2012; (p. 90-91)'The third part of this eleven-part series of articles. The change in the calibre of Australian students as compared to earlier times is discussed. Among successive generations of students, temperament is variable, whereas their average intellectual calibre is almost the same.' (Publication abstract)
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4The Temperaments Are the Same 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 27 no. 2 1968; (p. 211-214)'The author argues how apathetic and uneducated Australian society is today. He mentions the cause and effect of certain Liberal party policies, for instance the cuts to education, that have concomitant effects in creating ignorant youth.' (Publication abstract)
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5To the Gutless Wonders 1968 single work essay satire
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 27 no. 2 1968; (p. 215-217) We Took Their Orders and Are Dead : An Anti-War Anthology 1971; (p. 114-118)'A creative opinion piece in the style of a lecture to the younger generation, full of tongue-in-cheek advice, warnings and cynicism.' (Publication abstract)
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6The Self-Watchers 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Winter vol. 27 no. 2 1968; (p. 218-219)'Today's is a self-watching generation. Outer events are not so important in themselves as the reactions they produce in both observer and participant. These reactions are mainly dictated by outside pressures and are not wholly personal. Everyone is his own Big Brother and watches himself anxiously for deviations from what has been disseminated as Modern Thinking.' (Publication abstract)
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7Protest and Anaesthesia 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Spring vol. 27 no. 3 1968; (p. 365-371) Meanjin Anthology 2012; (p. 92)'The continuing series of articles on the 'Temperament of Generations'. The paternalistic view of society as people being passive recipients of goods and government is discussed. Modern radicals feel transformation of society in a socialist and democratic direction to be essential.' (Publication abstract)
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8Dissent and Activism : A Personal View 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Spring vol. 27 no. 3 1968; (p. 371-375)'The continuing series of articles on the 'Temperament of Generations'. The three major types of dissenters and the roles that they play are discussed. The question of one's own involvement in issue-oriented activism depends on the nature of the issue concerned.' (Publication abstract)
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9The Generations Gap 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Spring vol. 27 no. 3 1968; (p. 375-381)'The continuing series of articles on the 'Temperament of Generations'. The tendency to look upon the Australian youth with remorseless esteem is discussed. The author disputes a generation gap, saying that the youth of the day are just as conservative as their parents.' (Publication abstract)
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10A Voice for a New Generation 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Summer vol. 27 no. 4 1968; (p. 489-492)'The next section of the eleven-part series of articles.The need for the changing reforms in West German universities is discussed. The new wave of consciousness rising up within universities all over the world is a hopeful beginning, and is greatly welcomed.' (Publication abstract)
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11My Childhood Universities 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , Summer vol. 27 no. 4 1968; (p. 493-495)'An interesting process in life is the way in which one moves through the generations. Is a generation really thirty-three years, or is it only ten? But what a long time ten years is. When you meet someone whom you haven't seen for fifteen years, or even ten, it doesn't seem like a generation, it is another life. And so many of one's old friends are ghosts. Did they really look like that, talk like that? Did one ever really understand them? Great wedges of their personality have been withdrawn or have just collapsed, since one last met them. They look like disused piers. Are these wedges Marxism-Leninism, or the other things one argued about or just thought about in the 'forties and 'fifties? If they are, then these old friends couldn't have been living during those years - just killing time, and youth, and fantasy Fascists. Perhaps the realisation of those lost years is weighing us all down. Perhaps ten or twenty years out of one's life, no matter how spent, leaves its mark. But put that way, ten or twenty years doesn't seem long at all. They shouldn't look so crapped off.' (Publication abstract)