Quadrant (magazine)

Quadrant

Cover of April 2010 issue
Type	Monthly journal
Format	Magazine
Owner	Quadrant Magazine Ltd.
Editor	Keith Windschuttle
Founded	1956
Political alignment	Conservative
Language	English
Official website	www.quadrant.org.au

Quadrant is an Australian literary and cultural journal. The magazine takes a conservative position on political and social issues, describing itself as sceptical of 'unthinking Leftism, or political correctness, and its "smelly little orthodoxies"'. Quadrant reviews literature, as well as featuring essays on ideas and topics such as politics, history, universities, and the arts. It also publishes poetry and short stories. It is published ten times per year and its current cover price is A$8.50.

Keith Windschuttle was appointed Editor in late 2007.

History

The magazine was founded in 1956 by Richard Krygier, a Polish-Jewish refugee who had been active in social-democrat politics in Europe and James McAuley, a Catholic poet, famous for the anti-modernist Ern Malley hoax. An initiative of the Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom, the Australian arm of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a front group of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, Quadrant was part of an anti-Communist kulturkampf.^{[citation needed]}

It has had many notable contributors including Les Murray, who has been its literary editor since 1990, Christopher Koch, Patrick O'Brien, Frank Knopfelmacher, A. D. Hope, Heinz Arndt, Greg Sheridan, Barry Humphries, Peter Coleman, Roger Sandall, Tom Switzer, Peter Kocan, Andrew Lansdown, Joe Dolce, Clive Davis and Hal Colebatch, as well as several Labor and Liberal political figures (including former Prime Minister John Howard and former Labor Senator John Wheeldon).

Editors

Order	Period	Editor	Background / comments
1.	1956–1967	James McAuley	Catholic poet
2.	1967–1990	Peter Coleman	Writer, journalist, and former New South Wales and Federal Liberal politician
3.	1990–1997	Robert Manne	Resigned after repeated disputes with its editorial board
4.	1997–2007	Paddy McGuinness	Journalist and self-described contrarian
5.	2007–	Keith Windschuttle	Writer, historian, and board member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

In January 2009, Windschuttle published a fake submission purporting to be written by biotechnologist “Dr Sharon Gould”, a name later revealed to be fictitious. The article, titled Scare Campaigns and Science Reporting, used fraudulent science, including falsified CSIRO research to make its claims. The event later came to be known as the Windschuttle-Quadrant hoax.

Management structure

Editorial Advisory Board

• Bill Hayden AC (Chair) - former Governor-General and Labor politician
• Emeritus Professor D. M. Armstrong AO - an Australian philosopher

• Peter Coleman - former editor, writer, journalist, and Liberal politician
• Miranda Devine - columnist for The Daily Telegraph

• Christopher Pearson - cultural and religious columnist for The Australian
• Imre Salusinszky - political columnist for The Australian

Editorial Staff

• Literary Editor: Les Murray

• Deputy Editor: George Thomas

See also

• List of literary magazines

External links

• Quadrant Magazine
• CIA as Culture Vultures, an essay published here in Jacket Magazine, No. 12, July 2000, as an extract from her non-fictional account of the life of James McAuley (see additional reading below)
• Quadrant's 50th anniversary - ABC Radio National Counterpoint 2006 feature interview with Martin Krygier (former Quadrant Director and son of founder), Dame Leonie Kramer AC DBE (former Quadrant Chair), and Paddy McGuinness: transcript located here.