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The AHRC's public face is ugly enough. Look under the rock and it gets much worse
Oct 05 2024
13 mins
The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for Hamas
Oct 04 2024
19 mins
The Vance-Walz debate prompts a column that's more of a steaming pile
Oct 03 2024
3 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
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
