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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
John Whitworth: The Song of the House
The Song of the House
This is the song of the house,
of the gleam that is gone,
Gone in the trail of the mouse,
in the dream that is fallen.
Gone in the tale of the rise
and the set of the sun,
Gone in the pale of the sighs
of the ghost that is calling.
This is the ghost in the air
of the people forgotten.
This is the how and the where
and the why and the what and
The fell of the fire and the flame
in the moan and the mutter,
This the ineffable name
of the words we unutter.
These are the sighs in the house,
unweeting, unwitten,
Whose silences speak to the mouse
of the boundless unwritten.
This is the soul of the set
and the rise of the moon,
And the scroll of the last cigarette
in the vast picayune.
John Whitworth
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
