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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
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Australia’s rotten education system from the inside. Daniel Searson is a 17-year-old student studying for a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia:
Indoctrination is rife in English Literature. Students are asked to analyse texts in the context of gender representation, cultural identity, race and social class. Before 1984 in Western Australia, students were marked on how well they could explain the message, context and language of the text and author. Nowadays, students are expected to make presumptuous assumptions about the text along with irrational evidence being acceptable. Not only is this negatively affecting academic standards, the education system has taken one step further by teaching students the ‘answers’: gender representation is only allowed to be used in a patriarchal sense, women were always powerless and men are evil; cultural identity (usually in the context of Australia) is concerned with multiculturalism and how this only brings natural order…
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
