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Our new G-G let slip an avalanche of heartfelt concern that recast our 236 years of indifference and guilt
Sep 17 2024
8 mins
The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humane
Sep 16 2024
11 mins
The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than ever
Sep 16 2024
6 mins
Andrew Lansdown: Two Poems
Café Senryu
i
Upmarket café—
looks like I’m the only one
without a gym pass.
ii
At the next table
two well-manicured women
whining and dining.
iii
For a bigger buzz
the mating flies plunge into
my cappuccino!
Pond Tanka
1
Fish Leaf
Silvery and svelte,
a sodden bamboo leaf lifts
and lilts like a koi
from the bottom of the pond
on the current of the hose.
2
Greetings
Near nightfall, the koi
rise up and touch their foreheads
to the pond’s surface
the way Maori touch noses
when fondly greeting their friends.
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
