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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
The Burning Fiery Furnace
It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know.
If who you know says go you gotta go.
You gotta go, you gotta get a life.
You gotta get a wife, you gotta grow.
You gotta get a life and get a wife
And get a lotta kids and be a pro.
The winds out there will cut you like a knife,
They’ll cut you to the bone. I told you so.
I told you so. Philosophies are rife
And going spare. It only goes to show.
It goes to show you gotta get a life.
The world is wide and what it is. Just so.
But everywhere you look it’s bloody strife.
Hey ho, the winds do blow. You gotta go.
The Jack of Diamonds and the Thane of Fife,
Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego.
Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego.
You gotta be a pro. Just so. Just so.
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
