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The AHRC's public face is ugly enough. Look under the rock and it gets much worse
Oct 05 2024
13 mins
The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for Hamas
Oct 04 2024
19 mins
The Vance-Walz debate prompts a column that's more of a steaming pile
Oct 03 2024
3 mins
A Loon Sang in Walloon
Twice upon a time
when water changed to wine
a loon sang in Walloon
uncertain with her pitch
other loons would twitch
this loon sang out of tune
old loon choirmaster
whose skin was alabaster
and sucked his silver spoon
pucked a sour pooh-pooh
saying this will never do
to have a tin-eared loon
frog said try my ribbit
perhaps you could adlib it
and croaked a green balloon
the loon soon learned to blend it
its ribbit was quite splendid
there beneath the claret moon
now spiders spread their fingers
fog of sapphire lingers
a loon sang in Walloon.
Joe Dolce
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
