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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
The Reek of Muck in Victoria
The goings on in Victoria this week were extraordinary. Following admissions from former Labor MP Adem Somyurek (above) about his involvement in the Red Shirts affair, which he has labelled “the biggest political scandal in Victorian history”. Somyurek, a former Labor powerboker now banished from the party, introduced a motion in the upper house of Victoria’s parliament for the state’s corruption watchdog, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC), to investigate the party’s rort a second time.
The motion was carried successfully — indeed, unexpectedly — by 19 votes to 17, when Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela crossed the floor to back the motion. Veghela, who lost her preselection due to factional warfare, will now be expelled from the ALP. In introducing the motion, Somyurek claimed corruption within government represented the destruction of the public service and said the matter needed to be examined further.
As reported by NCA Newswire, 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
