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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
A Spoonful of Acacia Honey
Bullets don’t just kill strangers.
My spoon stirred black tea round to a whirl.
I saw my auntie in a dream last night; a little old lady walking home
with a shopping bag. She ducked down swiftly,
hid behind a wall, strangers showed her to a back alley,
my eyes followed her diving through a hole in a wall,
her bag swung silently as she stumbled over debris, blind bullets
rushed as she sprang round a bend—arsenic gray sky—
between the shadows she almost tripped over her coat,
then found an empty path to her door. Tiny feet with prayers
and luck got her home that time, not to go out again.
A spoonful of Acacia honey is better than sugar for my hips
she said once. Toast pops out burnt, I butter it and wonder
if I should make that call.
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
