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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
No to God, No to Country, No to Family
I don’t care what they say, one or two conservative poseurs, Italy’s new prime minister is far, far right. Memo to the ABC, BBC and the New York Times, one far is not enough. Sure, Giorgia Meloni (above) looks pleasant enough. But the rub is in her slogan. God, Fatherland, Family. Next, she’ll be putting Italy first and we know where that kind of sentiment led in the United States in 2016.
I bracket Signora Meloni with the likes of Trump, Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, and that Tony Abbott fellow. All believe in God or at the least pay due lip service. All are nationalists. All are family oriented. Another complete giveaway is that they are all committed to securing their nation’s borders.
Meloni wants to blockade boats carrying hundreds of thousands of Muslim economic refugees from Libya to Italy. Apparently 750,000 have come since 2015. And she’s not grateful for this offset to Italy’s low birth-rate! Gives a heightened meaning to the word ‘ingrate’.
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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
