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Letters to the Editor

Back before I started writing professionally, I had a number of Letters to the Editor published in Australian newspapers and magazines. Of course, I wrote many more that weren't published, but by the time I desisted, The Australian was publishing around fifty percent of my submissions.

Here are those letters.

Subject Publication Edition Page
On censorship Quadrant Oct 1989 2
On Donald Horne's cultural chauvinism The Australian 18 Dec 1989 10
On a good Op Ed page The Australian 28 Sept 1990 12
On free trade The Australian 9 Oct 1990 12
On the comparative costs of postal stamps The Australian 22 Oct 1990 10
On the similarity between Japanese and Australian persons The Weekend Australian 27-28 Oct 1990 18
On censorship (again) Quadrant Nov 1990 4-5
On educational testing The Australian 9 Nov 1990 ?
On the police response to 'domestics' Quadrant Dec 1990 4-5
On government arts subsidies The Australian 13 Dec 1990 10
On the fatwah on Salman Rushdie The Australian 9 Jan 1991 10
On motor vehicle tariffs The Australian 7 Feb 1991 10
On misleading graphs Electronics Australia Feb 1991 4-5
On women's interests The Australian 5 Mar 1991 10
On the misuse of statistics The Weekend Australian 18-19 May 1991 18
On misleading graphs (again) Electronics Australia June 1991 4-5
On the freedom of boxers The Australian 30 May 1991 10
On schadenfreude, per Phillip Adams The Australian 13 Jun 1991 12
On censorship (again) The Australian 17 Jun 1991 10
On Phillip Adams' misinterpretation of Bonfire of the Vanities The Weekend Australian 20-21 July 1991 24
On a Glenn Milne news report The Australian 24 Jul 1991 10
On the Moon's gravitational field The Australian 20 Aug 1991 10
On the birth dates of classical composers The Australian 24 Oct 1991 10
On the health risks of cholesterol and Woody Allen The Australian 3 Jan 1992 10
On freedom of expression The Canberra Times 13 May 1992 16
On memory usage by MSDOS5 DOSSHELL Sixteen Bits Aug 1992 24
On the Australian Flag IPA Review Vol 45/3 1992 2
On shop trading hours The Canberra Times 3 Jun 1996 10
On shop trading hours (again) The Canberra Times 22 Jun 1996 18
On the high prices of books in Australia The Canberra Times 3 Aug 1996 14
On proposed 'solutions' to data encryption The Canberra Times 25 Jan 1997 17
On the history of computers The Canberra Times 28 Jul 1997 10