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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
Andrew Lansdown: ‘Concerning Austerity and Creativity’ and ‘The Daylight Fox’
Concerning Austerity and Creativity
1
Inspirations for Ikebana
In austerity
Japanese are amateurs.
In Australia
the outback is one giant
ikebana arrangement.
2
Ikebana Dreaming
If austerity
alone inspired such beauty,
Aborigines
would have dreamed ikebana
long before the Japanese.
Andrew Lansdown
The Daylight Fox
1
Taking the Shot
Aiming at the fox
down the barrel of my lens,
I grieved it was not
down the barrel of my gun.
Still, I shot it on the run.
2
Taking the Blame
If with my rifle
I had gone out rather than
with my camera
the fox I saw would be harmless
and the ewe would not be lambless.
Andrew Lansdown
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
