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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
The Misguided Case for Indigenous Recognition (Part III)
Part Three: The Ethnic Bias of the Expert Panel
The makeup of the Expert Panel is consistent with the bias evident in the Report’s recommendations, that an ethnically blind Constitution be changed into one that names two relatively small ethnic groups so as to honour and privilege them in perpetuity while omitting recognition of Australia’s national origins.
Let us start with the numbers. The Panel had ten indigenous and nine white members. The three ex-officio members were also indigenous. [1] These are shown in the following table.
| Indigenous | White |
| Patrick Dodson (Chair)Josephine Bourne
Timmy Djawa Burarrwanga Megan Davis Lauren Ganley Sam Jeffries Marcia Langton Alison Page Noel Pearson Ken Wyatt (Ex-officio:) Jody Broun Les Malezer Mick Gooda |
Mark Leibler (Chair)Graham Bradley
Henry Burmester Fred Chaney Glenn Ferguson Bill Lawson Rob Oakeshott Janelle Saffin Rachel Siewert
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The Panel seems to have been selected to exclude all but…
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
