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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
A COVID Guide for South Australia’s Election
South Australia is seen by the rest of the continent as a bit of a sleepy backwater politically but the upcoming state election on March 19 could change that perception while providing pointers for the federal election due in May. For all those South Australians who are done with the COVID comic opera and all its farcical business and employment restrictions, vaxx coercion and mask mandates, something could be brewing in two weeks time here in SA. What is the electoral state of play, COVID-wise, and what are the contestants saying about COVID policy? Will the virus madness win at the ballot box, or will sanity regain ground lost over the past two years?
Labor ahead at the turn
The latest Newspoll shows Labor leading 53-47 for the House of Assembly after distribution of preferences. Peter Malinauskas, the Labor leader, is preferred premier 46-39 over the incumbent Liberal, Steven ‘Marshmallow’ Marshall (so nicknamed because of his lack of any commitment to…
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
