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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
Aaron Craig: ‘Abortion’
Abortion
A tiny aspirant floating
In amniotic broth is desalted, extracted
In clean energy. So thin and unformed
that sterilised forceps pinch it a p a r t.
Yolked from its protein shell, septum chambers
Still in parcels. Barely more than neural groove
Or spinal cord floating
In a hidden sea, in the void denied.
You have the softest fists, and are wounded so easily.
Your gentle scratches cannot impress
The uterus walls. You wobble and crumble,
another receding sea of limbs.
But the head too wide and full of itself
Could not be extracted. Instead
it was hooked apart with a steel curette
and spooned away like porridge.
The walls abate and burst. A person is hooked apart
as easily as they were assembled.
Aaron Craig
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
