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Tolerating the Intolerant Grows Harder
I love Australia. I’ve lived here all my life. But in the past decade a few things have had a negative impact on my enjoyment of this beautiful place. Let me list just a few.
- People being stabbed in the name of a religion.
- People being held hostage – same motivation.
- Plans laid to blow people up.
- Fortunes spent each year by governments to keep a lid on zealotry.
- ‘Experts’ telling us people who do these things are mentally unstable, marginalised or poorly educated, even when that is clearly not the case.
- Needing to be ‘alert’ but not ‘alarmed’ to potentially catastrophic threats.
- People who refuse to stand in court.
- Special treatment and dedicated religious amenities for some at public facilities.
- Women shrouded in garments testifying to their status as mere possessions.
- Being called upon to know the difference between a burqa and a niqab, when each is equally offensive.
- Watching a publicly funded broadcaster accept and implicitly endorse arranged and
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