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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 True History of the Voice
Start here for the Voice: Townsville, August 1981. A Labor mayor welcomed a national conference of high-flying Left activists to his city. The event was marvellously successful for the Left. It produced the Mabo case, fed racial dissension and hatred and much false history—it was held at James Cook University. Participants at the “Land Rights and the Future of Australian Race Relations” conference dreamed of clenched fists in the face of a broken-apart Australia. Present were politicians, academic activists, lawyers and students including the famous and in some cases infamous: Bob Collins, H.C. “Nugget” Coombs, Marcia Langton, Shorty O’Neill, Al Grassby, Judith Wright, Garth Nettheim, Lyndall Ryan, Henry Reynolds and Eddie Mabo.
The opening resolution thrust stupidity and confusion, freeloaders and hoaxers and Bruce Pascoe into our present. An opening resolution by Henry Reynolds was passed unanimously: “The conference recognises that the prerequisite of…
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
