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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
David Isaacson: ‘Everyman’s Dream’
Everyman’s Dream
I want a job that doesn’t own me
I want to live in house by the sea
Mow the lawn, check my mail, walk the dog every day
Then drive the Rolls to Port Melbourne to collect my pay
And it’s everyman’s dream
I want to leave the corporate rat cage
Find the door marked “freedom” and flee
To a patio with my babe, sipping lattes every day
Then fly the chopper to Port Melbourne to collect my pay
And it’s everyman’s dream
I want to give up public transport
Quit the morning germ-sharing parade
Put my suit in the shed and just sail away
Make a stop in Port Melbourne to collect my pay
And it’s everyman’s dream
With my suit in the shed and boat in the bay
I know that
The best time to retire
Is yesterday
David Isaacson
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
