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Vampire Squids and Blood Funnels
When even the Crikey!-trained operatives at Media Watch concede a fellow ABC employee has screwed the pooch, you know the act was done thoroughly, absolutely and with extreme prejudice. Thus, last night were viewers treated to a tut-tutting Paul Barry lamenting newly elevated chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici’s misadventures in Tax Land. For those who haven’t followed the national broadcaster’s latest debacle, the former Lateline hostess took it upon herself to explain why rapacious companies aren’t paying the taxes she seems to think they owe.
Alas, a little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing and unexamined preconceptions make it more so, especially when combined with a chief economics correspondent’s apparent ignorance of the difference between revue and profit. Put it this way: were Ms Alberici required to pay for her own office vehicle, construct the building in which she tickles her keyboard and cover every other capital and incidental expense from her own…
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