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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
Chris Kenny, Conspiracy Theorist
Yes, I know I’m obsessed with Chris Kenny. And I know that as a Voice advocate he is pretty much irrelevant, other than as a straight man to Anthony Albanese channeling Hannah Gadsby. He gets a handful of supportive comments to his Australian articles, but I’m betting very few whol watch his Sky News program agree with him about the Voice. But please bear with me one more time, as I need to get this off my chest. I am a Sky News viewer and appreciate the channel presents a plurality of views. However, I cannot let Kenny’s nonsense go unchallenged. He has effectively accused his Sky News colleagues of acting in bad faith by labelling them “fearmongers”. So, I’ll do the talking. After this I’ll go cold turkey, I promise.
In an article in the Weekend Australian on August 5, Kenny made these claims (emphasis added):
Imperilling reconciliation for partisan advantage is hardcore. Yet this week the opposition led question time with scares about the voice and attempted…
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
