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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
Farm Houses
Farm Houses
Perched on a ridge, crouched in the last
scrub of a hill, set at the end
of a winding drive: they all stand
at an angle to the tarmac,
facing the same way like cows,
bums to the weather. No house
that’s any good will face the road:
yards cluttered with old tractors,
dead utes, they always watch their own –
stock or crops; cattle, sheep or wheat;
driveways placed so they can spot
strangers who approach. Why do they
never see us hurrying past?
A good farm house never surveys
anyone else’s property.
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
