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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 Good Space
A Good Space
(AA Open Meeting)
Of course, I begin by saying
I’m not an alcoholic.
Having established
difference, I slip off my shoes
under the harsh lights of this
municipal hall, the people around me
with similar threaded years of
struggle and fear, shunting stop-
starts; able to laugh at themselves.
Minute by minute,
day by day, they wrestle their demons;
make it here sometimes just
to sit mute.
If you created a religion
you could do worse than this:
all welcome, no questions asked;
a working doctrine of self-help.
Christ would be
at home here if he were alive today,
away from the diktats and discord
of Churches:
to where people lay down
burdens, pick them up again, lighter.
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
