• Advertise
  • Submissions
  • Contact
  • Sign In
  • 0 Items ($0.00)
  • Search
  • Home
  • News & Opinion
    • All
    • QED
    • Essential Reading
    • Doomed Planet
    • History Wars
    • Bennelong Papers
  • Arts & Letters
    • Poetry
    • Fiction
    • First Person
  • Authors
    • Keith Windschuttle
    • Roger Franklin
    • John O’Sullivan
    • Anthony Daniels
    • Tim Blair
    • Michael Connor
    • Joe Dolce
    • Hal Colebatch
    • Daryl McCann
    • Peter Smith
    • Zeg
  • Magazine
    • Current Edition
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • Archive
  • Store
  • Subscribe
    • New Subscription
    • Renew Subscription
  • Donate
0 items ($0.00)
Sign In
Menu
  • Home
  • News & Opinion
  • Arts & Letters
  • Authors
  • Magazine
  • Store
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Advertise
  • Submissions
  • Contact
Subscribe Starting at $68.00 a year
Menu
Sign In
0 items ($0.00)
Search
  • Home
  • News & Opinion
  • Arts & Letters
  • Authors
  • Magazine
  • Store
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Advertise
  • Submissions
  • Contact
Subscribe Starting at $68.00 a year
  • Home
  • Magazine
  • First Person

First Person

  • All
  • Essential Reading
  • QED
  • Doomed Planet
  • History Wars
  • Bennelong Papers
First Person

Tragedy and Grief in Vung Tau

  • Alistair Pope
  • 14th October 2018
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (1)

Traffic in Vietnam is 'organised chaos'. Double white lines are ignored, traffic lights turning red are regarded as suggestions rather edicts, and the reminders of the carnage can be harrowing. I think in particular of a dead little girl and the roadside memorial that chills me every time I ride past

Read More

First Person

On My Australian Poetry

  • Timoshenko Aslanides
  • 30th April 2018
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (0)

John Dryden once defined music as “inarticulate poesy” (poetry). Turning that around, I define poetry as “articulate music”, for that is what the best poetry is: sound cut into time as rhythm for harmonies of expression. Hybrid Publishers of Ormond in Victoria, who have published my last five books, clearly like both my Australian poetry […]

Read More

First Person

The Assault on Trust

  • Tony Grey
  • 21st April 2018
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (10)

Cynicism shares our lunch these days, yet trust survives. It must, for we are human and at that level we still see the shining light of its truth. There’s relief in that, since a tendency to trust others, according to psychologists, is a strong predictor of subjective well-being

Read More

First Person

The Wedding Brawl on the Road to Goroka

  • Tony Thomas
  • 5th April 2018
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (3)

Hagen is indeed a tough town, a place where every shop window had been smashed not long before my arrival in retaliation for some offence to clan honour by a white man. Paybacks are fairly indiscriminate even when love is in the air, as I was soon to discover.

Read More

First Person

A Personal Journey to the Red Centre

  • Laurie Hergenhan
  • 30th March 2018
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (0)

I am not sure why I decided to travel on the Ghan from Adelaide to Darwin. Recent reading had much to do with it. A book about the painter Rex Battarbee told how he had introduced Albert Namatjira to watercolour painting. I had not realised that as early as the 1930s Battarbee made frequent trips […]

Read More

First Person

Bridges

  • Nana Ollerenshaw
  • 28th February 2018
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (0)

Snapshot “I’m not an activities person,” she says. “I like my own company.” But she reluctantly accepts me. As a volunteer I join her once a week for conversation in “The Home”. “Hello, my dear. Sit down.” Despite the educated voice, the salon-perfect hair, the tasteful attire, she is not aloof. Nor is she precious. […]

Read More

First Person

Summer E-mails

  • Michael Connor
  • 28th February 2018
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (0)

Weather forecast: very hot, late storm. A revolution is coming. A civilisation is collapsing. Be afraid, be warned. We can’t stop it. We can’t hold back. It is going to happen. Go, read Chateaubriand. Be afraid for those coming after us. It’s mid-summer and hot. Usually, in Hobart, I remind our neighbour, watering his roses, […]

Read More

First Person

Living in Fear in Post-War Germany

  • Eugene Schlusser
  • 10th February 2018
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (1)

As one tyranny replaced another, Natalie Makarova was allowed to work with the immigration authorities processing refugees. She may have hoped to make some contact there or gather information that might help the family to get out of the country. Even the faintest possibility had to be followed through

Read More

First Person

In the Footsteps of Guido Brunetti

  • Jane Sutton
  • 30th December 2017
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (0)

Commissario Guido Brunetti, a Venetian police inspector, is Donna Leon’s fictional resident of San Polo. He speaks “Veneziano” and admires those who do so with a specific sestiere accent—from Castello. The crime writer Donna Leon has lived in Cannaregio, the closest sestiere to the railway station, where Venetians who still work and live in the […]

Read More

First Person

The Assault on Optimism

  • Tony Grey
  • 30th December 2017
icons/chat Created with Sketch. Comments (3)

Despite our times of comfort and plenty, optimism is under assault. Pessimism is leaping to the attack. Optimism appears to have fewer and fewer adherents. While natural temperament, derived from heredity or environment or both, is the foundation, philosophical conviction builds on it, sometimes in surprising ways. An illustration of this is the case of […]

Read More

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • Next

Sign In

Lost your password?

Subscribe

Read Quadrant online or as a printed magazine
Starting at $68.00 a year

Learn more
  • News & Opinion
  • Arts & Letters
  • Authors
  • Magazine
  • Store
  • Advertise
  • Submissions
  • Contact
© 2018 Quadrant Online. Made by Emote