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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
Chaucer and the modern pardoners
There’s naught will help; all go the same way. Aye,
Then may I say that everything must die….
…Then is it wisdom, as it seems to me,
To make a virtue of necessity”
– Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight’s Tale
“Gillard is making a virtue of necessity” – Michelle Grattan in The Age
“She has now made a virtue of necessity” – Charles Richardson at Crikey!
"Julia Gillard should be congratulated for nipping six months of election speculation in the bud." — Michael Gordon in The Age
Opposition leaders “customarily wait until an election is called, hiding behind the uncertainty as an excuse for concealment. Gillard has just removed that comfortable hiding place … So it works as a political tactic.” – Peter Hartcher in the SMH
… and only seven more months of this to go
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
