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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
Poetry Reading
I don’t have anything against poetry
or editors.
It’s the public that pisses me off
they don’t buy it.
There are some who can’t not write the stuff
poor buggers.
And others say they write only for themselves
I don’t buy that.
Surely everyone writes to be heard
poets included.
And this new electronic media is no way
the saviour.
Nothing is less suited to the ice screen
than poetry.
Then rap is the new poetry, perhaps?
That’s crap.
Poetry is what it always was, it just doesn’t
rhyme as much
and poets must just accept what comes
their way.
Long after Greece has left the Euro
Zone
and all the spin-doctors have been shot
for murder
the people will rise up and start reading poetry
again
and I will curse them from my grave for their
lousy timing.
Saxby Pridmore
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
