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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
Alastair Spate: ‘The Divirus’
The Divirus
Big chance to buy a divorce house
—Sydney Sunday Telegaph, April 2020
Plague months too long, too much of each other:
Split the house, the children, lawyers and bills.
Once shotgun weddings, now shotgun endings,
Alone in the leftover life to kill.
How they annul the meaning of marriage
—Its duty of care, its love of purpose—
Gave it away to those who don’t need it,
Who count self-love as one of the virtues.
Throw it away, you there in your half-house,
Bring your failure to market, if you must.
Liar’s debt is divorce like deflation,
You wreaker of value, thief of trust.
Alastair Spate
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
