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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
Darby Hudson: ‘Mum and Mary’
Mum and Mary
Before mum died,
I introduced her to the popular nature poet,
Mary Oliver. I bought mum a few of
Mary’s books and she deeply engaged with her
paganist, poetry-prayers that knelt before nature.
Mum made notes all over the pages,
dog-tagging and highlighting them,
in conversation with them—
living in them.
Funny, as Mary Oliver died
just a few months ago,
and now mum …
Tonight, mum and Mary sit in the same
few books together on my bookshelf,
closed between the same dark forests of pages
in silent, annotated and everlasting conversation—
like two mirrors facing one another and
clasped together.
Here, they will forever discuss
nature as godhead,
the transcendent and the
eternity of words.
Darby Hudson
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
