Quadrant Online has reached a remarkable milestone. Its readership now amounts to more than one million page views per year. This makes Quadrant Online by far the most widely read website of any of the Australian journals of ideas and literature with which it competes, on either the left or right of the political spectrum. 

Quadrant is Australia’s leading journal of ideas, essays, literature, poetry, and political and historical debate.

Dan Nolan: “Were you to take at face value the grotesque outpouring of utter vitriol from the left-aligned members of the twitter cognoscenti, you would have thought Tony Abbott had taken up a policy of punching babies, burning down forests and beheading immigrants personally.”

Miranda Devine: “John Gay’s wife was spat at in the supermarket and the Tasmanian media sat on the fence as a good man’s reputation was destroyed.”

Michael Borgas, president, CSIRO Staff Association: “And in Australia, CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, and many other science agencies have been attacked and threatened in Senate estimates by politicians and in the right-wing media such as Quadrant and The Australian.”

Ross Terrill: “Gillard faces a thoughtful conservative, Tony Abbott of the Liberal-National party, in a close tussle, and the result is important to U.S. interests. Gillard would support Obama’s worst foreign policy instincts, while Abbott would resist them.”

Fine readings of fine poems in Quadrant Online's Favourite Poems series of recordings.

On Counterpoint Michael Thompson explains how the Labor party turned against their own base.

Environment Minister Peter Garrett welcomes the inclusion of convict sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Yet political cowardice has left the second oldest site of Australian settlement vandalised and derelict.