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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
Running On Empty
The Senate is conducting an inquiry into Australia’s transport energy resilience and sustainability. The inquiry was initiated by formerly DLP Senator John Madigan of Victoria and is chaired by Senator Glenn Sterle of Western Australia. These are practical men. Senator Madigan was a self-employed blacksmith and boilermaker in rural Victoria from 1983 to 2011, close to 30 years. Senator Sterle left school at 17 to work as a furniture removalist and, three years later, started his own business operating road trains throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Submissions closed last November and are available online. I commend submission No. 33 in the first instance, written by your humble correspondent on behalf of the Australian Coal To Liquids Association. Most of the other submissions mentioned that Australia is the only country delinquent with respect to its undertakings and obligations as a party to the International Energy Agency (IEA) agreement to…
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
