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    September 2024 Issue Available

    The September 2024 issue of our magazine is now available via our website and in newsagents. You can click here to view the contents. Digital subscribers can enjoy the PDF and online articles now, and print subscribers will receive their hardcopies in the mail.

    Rebecca Weisser

    September 2, 2024

    1 mins

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    Sleepwalking into War

    Russia has long insisted that in return for peace, Ukraine must give up the 20 per cent of its territory that Russia currently occupies as well as any aspiration of joining NATO. These terms were unacceptable to Ukraine.

    Rebecca Weisser

    August 29, 2024

    9 mins

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    Oil and water, sunlight on solar

    Yemen’s Houthis have been enjoying all sorts of fun and mischief lobbing missiles at passing ships, so far incurring only the slightest of lettuce-leaf slaps from the Biden administration. So much for Pax Americana.

    Roger Franklin

    August 27, 2024

    5 mins

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    The Green Tide Turns in Europe

    Vaclav Klaus made astute points about the EU elections. First, he rejected the term 'populism' as a dangerous progressive label used to attack 'rational thinking and political freedom'. Second, environmentalism, institutionalised in Europe, is the number one danger, the basis of the 'new society'

    Rebecca Weisser

    August 25, 2024

    9 mins

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    Vale Lee Shrubb

    Quadrant mourns Lee Shrubb, Executive Editor from 1977 to 1983. Son Joshua writes of a working life consumed by 'chivvying typesetters, dragging the proofreader from the pub, and finding an alternative when the printer burned down." As a tribute to a remarkable woman we republish an excerpt of a refugee's sunny childhood in the Bondi of the Forties

    Joshua Shrubb

    August 25, 2024

    15 mins

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    The law agrees, nobody’s perfect

    The final scene of Some Like it Hot leaves Joe E. Brown’s intentions and Jack Lemmon’s response somewhat up in the air.

    Roger Franklin

    August 24, 2024

    2 mins

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    Letters: On the Black List

    Madam: I don’t know if you were following the stoush back in 2014 between the previous poetry editor of Overland, Peter Minter, and Quadrant and me. A lot of fireworks—even Andrew Bolt got involved.

    Roger Franklin

    August 24, 2024

    3 mins

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    Stiffed upper lip?

    Following up on her Quadrant Online report about the Family Court and the presumption of innocence so often denied men in troubled relationships, Bettina Arndt turns a critical eye on Movember.

    Roger Franklin

    August 23, 2024

    3 mins

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    Enola gay?

    Evidence that the world has gone mad grows harder to ignore. From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, these thoughts on what the queer perspective can bring to nuclear war.

    Roger Franklin

    August 22, 2024

    2 mins

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    Kamalalalia

    The Democrats have just begun their convention in Chicago, the hope being that anti-Semitic protests don't become riots, Steven Spielberg's stage-management goes off without a hitch and -- fingers tightly crossed --  Kamala Harris doesn't get too close to a microphone and go off script.

    Roger Franklin

    August 20, 2024

    4 mins