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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
Vale Lee Shrubb
Lee Shrubb, who was Executive Editor of Quadrant from 1977 to 1983, died on May 15, aged ninety-five. Her son Joshua writes:
Lee was born in Vienna, and came to Australia with her family as refugees from Nazism. They left on the night of the Anschluss, their train rolling out of Austria literally as the German tanks rolled in, and Lee had vivid memories of that night. She loved Australia, with its sunshine and freedom, space and security, and the welcome it gave her and many others from many different places and cultures. She retained a lifelong commitment to the values of cultural freedom and liberal democracy that Australia represented to her.
Through her years at Quadrant, Elwyn (Jack) Lynn was officially Editor, while Lee was Assistant Editor then Executive Editor, but Lee did most of the work. She sweet-talked existing, new and prospective contributors, pulled their submissions into shape, selected the contents of each issue (leaving room for poetry and fiction chosen by…
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.
Sep 02 2024
0 mins
The Society of Jesus mourns the death of Father Gerald (“Gerry”) O’Collins SJ AC. Fr O’Collins died in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August at the age of 93. He had been a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years.
Aug 31 2024
3 mins
How could it not be the Jews? That was the immediate surmise of, let us be frank, noxiously aggressive bigots and anti-Semites. Tayah’s restaurant was in Caulfield, the heart of Jewish Melbourne, there was a synagogue nearby.
Aug 30 2024
4 mins
