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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
Annus Mirabilis Reversed
Sexual intercourse came to an end
in the twentieth century,
or that’s how it seemed to me,
between the topless swimsuit trend
and the coming of HIV.
The thing which remained unspoken
but everybody did
when each of us was a kid
was nonetheless the chief token
for sentiments which hid
behind modesty’s complex charade.
But then things turned around
and everybody found
it to be unavoidably hard
to ignore either the sound
or descriptions of the act.
Nothing was left unsaid,
and so it was that instead
of performing it in fact
it moved into the head.
So sexual intercourse came to an end,
and in its place there was porn.
Far fewer children were born
between the massage parlour trend
and the debut of Shane Warne.
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
