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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 Question for God
At the end of his life, Job got his cattle back and became a
Happy Man, but all Jesus got was the Resurrection.
—from a student response to a test question
What were they like, Job’s cattle?
Were they dry stock? milkers?
Did he scrutinise them with contented, proprietary interest
while complacently caressing spots
where the boils had been?
Did his comforters eye with envy
a Happy Man?
a man blessed with such cattle?
God only knows, I suppose,
so go ask God.
All He got was the Resurrection, of course,
but He’s up there in Heaven with Himself
where He/They remember Job’s cattle
and remember his boils
and remember those faithful who witnessed the Resurrection
believing, perhaps, in their limited vision,
it was quite enough.
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
