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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
David Prescott-Steed: ‘Associative Logic’
Associative Logic No. 1
There are only four or five species of birds, three of which are variants of the extended seagull family, that inhabit this region of the cliff-face. This is in large part due to the wind that beats its airborne salt particles against the perpendicular landscape with serious velocity. Only since the invention of wearable binoculars have I found myself able to stand at lands end and greet the sea with open arms for more than a minute without succumbing to cascades of crystalline tears caused not by the speechless sentiments that occasionally I have felt towards the birth place of my abyssopelagic mother, but by the sand that blasts from nowhere into my face.
Associative Logic No. 2
A shorter piece of wood is placed at ground level down in the space between two tall posts, which will then be nailed into place. This piece has been cut at 40cm long in order to make for a tight fit. Two nails are to be hammered at each end of the top-facing side. When the…
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
