y separately published work icon The Australian Literary Quarterly newspaper issue  
Alternative title: The Australian Literary Magazine
Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 19-20 December 1987 of The Australian Literary Magazine est. 1985 The Australian Literary Quarterly
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Powerful and Mysterious Thing, Sandra Hall , single work short story (p. 1-2)
Celestial Bodies, Gerard Windsor , extract autobiography (p. 2)
The Magic 'If', Octavia Hicks , single work short story (p. 2)
A Case of Mistaken Identity, William B. Rowe , single work short story humour (p. 2)
Fokker Friendship, Michael Smithson , single work short story (p. 2)
Baron von Mueller Speaks Through His Gardensi"Palms, Moreton Bay Figs - yes, of course.", Beate Josephi , single work poetry (p. 3)
Among Pigeons, Beverley Farmer , single work short story (p. 3)
An Academic Sometime Academici"The gown became him and the mortar-board", Rosemary Dobson , single work poetry (p. 3)
Note: With title: An Academic
Going Bush, Russel Ward , single work short story (p. 4)
Eating the Suni"Autumn, Easter. And I am bone weary.", Lawrence Bourke , single work poetry (p. 4)
Godsi"Gods are glass.", Lawrence Bourke , single work poetry (p. 4)
Taxonomistsi"I had this book.", Barbara Jefferis , single work poetry (p. 5)
Time Marches On and I Wish It Wouldn't, Alister Kershaw , single work column (p. 5)
To Minnie Mousei"a red bow!", Barry Westburg , single work poetry (p. 6)
Innocence, Peter Goldsworthy , single work short story (p. 6)
Len the Quakeri"That dry rasping thrust", Mike Ladd , single work poetry (p. 6)
Tunnel Vision, Nancy Keesing , single work autobiography (p. 7)
To the Islands Today, Jessica Anderson , single work autobiography

The author describes a childhood trip down Moreton Bay on a government supply ship. They stop at two islands, one of which is Peel, a leper colony; the other is Dunwich, home to a few Aboriginal people. The narrator recalls her family's casually racist remarks, which she accepted as a child but which now perturbs her.

 (p. 7)
Boys and Gates and Ford V8'si"The old ford ute had seen better days", T. R. Edmonds , single work poetry (p. 8)
Accident Victimi"We delivered him upside down and head first", Andrew Donald , single work poetry (p. 8)
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