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A chant you won't hear: 'What do we want? Nuclear! How much? Lots! When? Now!'
Oct 07 2024
4 mins
It's not just free speech they aim to curtail, it's also our right to rejoice in national landmarks
Oct 07 2024
5 mins
Norway’s pride in its democracy has been tainted by the May recognition of Palestine
Oct 07 2024
9 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
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
