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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
Joe Dolce: ‘Booval Tea Ladies’
Booval Tea Ladies
During World War I,
35,000 returned soldiers,
many wounded and ill,
passed through Ipswich.
The Booval Comfort Club
provided aid to Australian fighting men—
motto: Keep the fit man fit.
Rationing restricted
women’s clothing.
Flour bags, old sheets, saved towels,
made dresses, under-garments,
crocheted with butcher’s twine.
At Swanbank Rail Station,
with its green window-frames and red tin roof,
scones and biscuits were baked,
handed to troops passing through by rail.
Piping hot cups of warm wishes.
The Billy Can Scheme brought Christmas cakes,
cigarettes and gifts, in tins.
Soldiers called them barrels of sunshine.
Joe Dolce
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
