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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
Putting Australia in America’s Worldview
America Looks to Australia: The Hidden Role of Richard Casey in the Creation of the Australia–America Alliance, 1940–1942
by James Prior
Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017, 212 pages, $39.95
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The Richard Casey that emerges from America Looks to Australia is a man comfortable on many strategic fronts. James Prior writes that Casey, Australia’s first ambassador to the United States, “was a superb salesperson of Australia in the United States and a tireless ‘networker’, but he was also capable of thinking strategically and mastering the technical detail of Australia’s military needs”. With apparently indomitable energy, Casey played the role of diplomat, socialite, confidant to the powerful, political strategist, public relations master, and military thinker—often at the same time—but emphasising different roles as the international wartime situation developed. Accused of harbouring a split allegiance between the…
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
