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In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Researchers posit an irrefutable link between suspensions and incarceration. A harder look reveals this simply isn't true
Sep 19 2024
14 mins
Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
Andrew Lansdown: Two Poems
Windbell with Bamboos
1
Verve
I see it again
in the sacred trinkets stall
at Inari Shrine—
the little windbell voicing
its verve on my veranda.
2
Relocation
I dangled it there
among the Buddha bamboos
in the shiftless air—
the windbell that days before
had dinged too much by my door.
3
Unintended
It’s not quite what I
wanted when I hung the wind-
bell in the bamboos:
they cherished it as their own
and coddled to death its tone.
Andrew Lansdown
Japanese Reflections
i
Bashful violets
are you familiar with Basho’s
haiku and haiga?
ii
Haijin Chiyo-ni
won’t you brighten the wagtail’s fan
with calligraphy?
iii
Buddha lookalike—
frog in the overflow spout
of the water-tank.
iv
Katsu! I exclaim,
clapping—thus the mosquito
gains enlightenment.
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
