VOLUME 9 Issue 4 (Spring 1997)
- Wik: the aftermath BY David Russell, Rick Farley
- Culture: parochialism versus nationalism BY Brian Matthews, Hilary McPhee, Ferdinand Mount
- Young Liberals: contemporary battles BY Gladys Berejiklian
- Crime, property and society BY Don Weatherburn, Peter Ryan, Yvonne Korn
- Survival: Australia in the 21st century BY Kim Beazley
- Amusing ourselves to death: press criticism and public issues BY Katharine Brisbane
- A symposium on Fathers in Writing [1997.] BY Anne and others Henderson
- Is Australia an Asian country? BY Stephen Fitzgerald
- Bread and circuses: thought and language in decline [Larry Adler Lecture, 13 Aug 1997.] BY Shirley Hazzard
- Tigers, leaders of the new Asia Pacific BY Greg Sheridan
- The tyranny of the TER [Tertiary Entrance Rank]: access to Australian universities BY Amanda Vanstone
- Interviewing Sir Donald Bradman BY Ray Martin