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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
The Absurdity of Being Earnest
Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big Quadrant welcome to our headline act—comedian Cameron James!
Cameron happens to be an Australian comedian, which means his relationship with the sound of laughter is possibly a little strained. As is widely known, our local comic sources some years ago replaced jokes with studiously inoffensive tribal recognition indicators (sourdough bread is a constant) and various manifestations of woke.
You’ll recall that in 2019 Barry Humphries’s name was stripped from the annual Melbourne Comedy Festival’s award for the funniest performer, ostensibly because Humphries—the world’s best-known man in a dress—had offended the transwhatever community. This slur against the creator of Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson provided an unintended historical echo.
Back in the 1980s, Humphries noted that Moomba, the Aboriginal name of a then-popular Melbourne carnival, supposedly translated as: “Let’s get together and have fun.” The…
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
The Editor of Quadrant Music, Alexander Voltz, has won the symphonic section of the prestigious George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.
Sep 03 2024
1 mins
