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Rogue Justice, as Bentham Would Put It
From the police, through the legislature, through the judges, we have seen a man, Cardinal George Pell, badly wronged by Victoria’s justice system. Were it not for the resounding and unanimous joint judgment of the High Court, overturning the conviction and substituting an acquittal, that wrong could have seen Pell spend his final years in prison.
Given the current trend to see everything these days through the lense of identity politics – which amounts to a Marxist-like and massively over-reductionist framework under which the sole thing that matters about anyone is the group to which he, she, it belongs, let me start by telling readers that I am not now nor have I ever been a Catholic. I was raised an atheist my Scots-Canadian parents. Before that, both sides of my family were Calvinist Presbyterians of the fire and brimstone variety, not today’s guitar playing Kumbaya sort. I have a distant relative some century ago or more ago who was the Moderator of the Presbyterian…
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