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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
Anna Ratcliff: ‘Love burns brightly’
Love burns brightly
Will it burn like a match
Catching quickly
Burning brightly
But it suddenly burns out
Will it burn like a candle
Burning on the wick
With a gentle heat
Lasting over a long time
Will love burn like a fire cracker
Bursting into explosions
Of love
Only to quickly fade away
Will love burn like a bush fire
Jumping and burning
Across the country
Some get burnt, but some don’t
Will love burn like embers
Out in the night in a campfire
Burning slowly
But burning in the morning
Love is complicated
It can burn
Brightly, gently, exploding or slowly
But it always burns in your heart
Anna Ratcliff
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
