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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
A Broken Arm
Wearing your arm encased in a sling
is how you’d carry a fertile egg
that’s precious, fragile and vulnerable:
to hatch, it must lie still and warm
twenty-four hours of every day.
This fact all buxom farm girls knew
in the poet Thomas Hardy’s time
when they would rest a motherless egg
within the cleavage between their breasts.
But careless gait, a sudden jolt
or close embrace of the surrogate
could put at risk the adopted chick.
A broken arm is slung up high
to nestle, snug, beside the breast—
if a girl in this predicament
remains sedate and circumspect,
her sheltered arm will mend again
emerging into the light of day
like any naked new-born thing.
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
