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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
Andrea Ockerby: ‘Winter 2021’ and ‘Roland Garros Down Under’
Winter 2021
Midnight. Neon light.
Blackbird with insomnia.
Singing like it’s dawn.
Strange noise in the dark.
Freight train warming-up waiting
For green light signal
Beside the highway
3 am. A lone possum
Finishes his chips.
Narrow alley-way
Sad blue wig and scorned soft toy
Caught in my torch light
On the beach tonight
Making enough noise for ten:
Mad-man riding by.
Night. Station Crossing.
Lights bobbing. Five fast cyclists
Speed by in a row.
Last summer so cold.
Our orb-weaver spider lives
On for next summer.
Andrea Ockerby
Roland Garros Down Under
Midnight in Melbourne
Paris blue sky stage-set for
Our racketed gods.
Hard on the eye that
Red gravel though—nasty
Graze if you fall, too.
Celebrities pose
In the grandstand pretending
The camera’s not there.
Expert commentary
Todd Woodie’s pixie sparkle
Yelena’s wisdom.
French girl bewitching
Floaty aqua skirt twitching
Hammers the ball home.
Don’t go to bed yet
Match about to turn ankle
On Spanish Bull’s sweat.
Final tomorrow
Night—Antipodean grit.
We are champions.
Andrea Ockerby
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
