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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
Apology Promise Abandoned
Following the revelation in Quadrant (“Compensation and Aboriginal Corruption”, March 2022) that current and former Territories ministers Anthony Albanese, Paul Keating and Barnaby Joyce could be called upon to apologise to children “stolen” during their tenures as the responsible ministers, the federal government has quietly abandoned this element of its Territories Stolen Generation Redress Scheme.
Announced last August and commencing on March 1 this year, the scheme includes individual payments of $75,000 to Stolen Generations claimants removed by the Commonwealth in the Northern Territory or Australian Capital Territory before self-government (1978 and 1989 respectively) or in Jervis Bay up to the present day. This includes periods when Keating, Joyce and Albanese were been the ministers responsible—Keating in the 1970s and Joyce and Albanese in recent decades.
When the Prime Minister and Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt made the $378 million announcement…
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
