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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
Footloose and Answer-Free
The latest chapter in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of multi-million fraudster Melissa Caddick played out in court when Justice Brigitte Markovic ordered her husband to vacate their mansion in Sydney’s exclusive Dover Heights by May 18. The property reportedly will be sold to pay back 74 investors allegedly swindled out of up to $25 million through what investigators say was Ms Caddick’s alleged Ponzi scheme.
The unanswered questions surrounding Caddick’s disappearance and the subsequent discovery of her severed foot on a beach 400 km south of Sydney recently formed the basis of a speculative TV doco-drama, Underbelly: Vanishing Act, which raised the possibility that she could still be very much alive. The thing is, though, there’s nothing terribly new or unusual about orphan feet turning up on beaches, neither in Australia nor on the other side of the Pacific, where more than 25 unmatched feet, have kept international law enforcement off balance over more than…
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
