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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Joe Dolce: ‘The Day the Law Decreed They Wear the Star’
The Day the Law Decreed They Wear the Star
How could they know? No one could see that far.
At first, spat on, or cursed, they crossed the street
and then the Law decreed they wear the star.
Two triangles, an amber avatar,
not to comply meant heavy penalties.
How could they know? No one could see that far.
A badge of shame, all movement to disbar,
to segregate, command control complete,
the day the Law decreed they wear the star.
Intended to humiliate, to mark,
identify the inferior cheat.
How could they know? No one could see that far.
The September 1st, ’41 nightmare,
the distancing, the whispering on-street,
that day the Law decreed they wear the star.
King David’s shield, the hexagram’s crossbar,
a coarse yellow cloth, the garish maltreat.
How could they know? No one could see that far.
The day the Law decreed they wear the star.
Joe Dolce
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
