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The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for Hamas
Oct 03 2024
19 mins
The Vance-Walz debate prompts a column that's more of a steaming pile
Oct 03 2024
3 mins
Our shambling excuse for a government is intent on suppressing opinions, even facts, it doesn't like
Oct 03 2024
9 mins
Andrew James Menken: ‘Less Is More’
Less Is More
Rip that carpet up from your hardwood floor;
give the walls a fresh coat of plain white paint;
the best advice you’ll receive: less is more.
Monolithic homes encroach on a shore
where waves meet them like an unyielding saint.
Rip that carpet up from your hardwood floor.
Prune back those trees so sunlight can restore
hope to gardens drowning in dark complaint.
The best advice you’ll receive: less is more.
A silence swallows the unholy roar
of traffic when the last engine grows faint.
Rip that carpet up from your hardwood floor.
Remove the windows and unhinge the door,
let your blood be stirred by winds sharp as flint.
The best advice you’ll receive: less is more.
The carpenter ants assemble before
night furnishes day with its starry glint.
Rip that carpet up from your hardwood floor;
the best advice you’ll receive: less is more.
Andrew James Menken
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
