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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
We Put Up with It …
Sir: The people who champion so-called anti-hate-speech laws talk as though Aboriginal and ethnic groups are uniquely targeted. The truth is that any hate speech directed at these groups is trivial by comparison with the venomous abuse and generalisations that have been hurled at the white people of Australia. Here are some examples.
Sun Herald, June 20, 2004: “In her new book Whitefella Jump Up, writer Germaine Greer has called for Australia to embrace its Aboriginal roots to heal the ‘devastation’ of more than 200 years of white settlement. Greer, who has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s, said Australia’s ‘sophisticated recreation lifestyle’ has created a spiritual wasteland and pushed the lucky country to the brink of environmental disaster.”
Canberra Times, November 11, 2002, columnist Ian Warden: “The fact that there is someone like Alan Jones, and that his points of view are so sickeningly awful and yet are so stupendously popular, is a cause 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
