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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Alamein
At Camberwell she chants—Change here for the Alamein line.
So I did because my uncle used to say that word in a certain way.
Riversdale Willison Hartwell Burwood Ashburton Alamein.
I was the only person who got off here. And nobody got on.
A bemused and indolent suburb, stunned by peace.
A slow car bumbling through the shadows of trees.
A shop with a tiny woman behind the tower of tic-tacs
and the deep throb of the drinks fridge by the sticky door.
I looked around for a war memorial but I could find none.
Just an insignificant station like the original El Alamein.
The sunshine and the lazy trees and the somnolent ease
are a true memorial for my uncle and the men like him.
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
