Dear Quadrant,
— told me today that you’d published work by known neo-Nazi Michael Brander. Weird that the Oz never covered this one. — sent me the following extract from Hansard:
But this month Quadrant magazine, edited by Mr McGuinness, who made the criticism, ran an article by Michael Brander, a former chairman of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance who has been convicted in an Australian court of assaulting a protester with a flagpole. When a constituent of mine and a former contributor to Quadrant contacted Mr McGuinness about this he said that he had never heard of Brander. What kind of a magazine or magazine editor publishes an article by someone without checking his background or sources—something, to quote Mr McGuinness, which only takes one minute on Google?
Cripes. Let’s hope you’re as expert a Googler with me, Quadrant.
Sincerely,
Sharon Gould
