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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
ABC Boredom 24
On ABC News 24 there was never a cross word, not an insult, nor a whiff of political point scoring. No spite, no jabs, no barbs. It was as though we were attending a political funeral and everyone was showing respect for the dead. And, well, they were.
Having elected to forgo the less-than-scintillating TV offerings on both the ABC and SBS, the lure of some political excitement in the NSW election coverage on ABC News 24 was irresistible. The chance to experience regime-change, live, had all the potential of watching dictators topple in the Middle East.
“Where’s the bar?” asked one Labor supporter as he entered the party’s election-night venue at Randwick. It looked like being a lonely and forlorn evening for the true believers— to say nothing of the ABC News 24 viewers— poor things.
A freshly scrubbed-up Kerry O’Brien opened the News 24 election-night special at 6.30 with a live cross to the Liberal Party’s party at Parramatta Leagues Club where the champagne was beginning 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
