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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Tim Loveday: Morning
Morning
Every morning they come
Those birds like bullets
In my ear drums
Those sounds so maniacal
They rob my heart of a beat
And send me twisting from my sleep.
And when I look across the bed
And wondering why that smell remains
Of perfumes distant and unnamed
I think of women I’ve surely shamed.
Are you the last on the line? Electrified
And stone?
I twist the blinds with my fist
All rosy-cheeked and swollen
And think, you bastard birds
With your perpetual swansong
When will it ever end?
I lie back swallowed by my pillow
This heavy head, contrite and hollow
And watch the insides of my eyelids
Waiting, waiting for you there.
Tim Loveday
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
