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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
Joe Dolce: ‘From The Cavafy Villanelles’
From The Cavafy Villanelles
Fifty-nine Retired
Fifty-nine retired he hated clerking,
on his final day friends heard him exclaim—
At last! I am freed from the despised thing.
Three decades behind a desk accounting,
the mournful line of monotonous days,
fifty-nine retired, he hated clerking.
Months pressed into years such an endless string,
feeling like a poet only in name—
At last! I am freed from the despised thing.
He hoped to write more without stunted wings,
a hundred voices inside to declaim,
fifty-nine retired he hated clerking.
The Ministry of Irrigation’s din,
passing in distant echoes out of frame—
At last! I am freed from the despised thing.
More time for books and free time for writing,
more late night strolls to neighborhood cafés,
fifty-nine retired he hated clerking—
At last! I am freed from the despised thing.
At the Noisy Café
He sits alone at the noisy café,
old age a wound from a terrible knife—
he was younger it seems just…
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
