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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
Anton Mruk: From Auschwitz to the Vatican
The Zone of Interest, the Academy Award-winning film that pictures the murderous hatred which eliminated several million Jews and others in Auschwitz by focusing on the commandant Rudolf Höss, his family and his home, has brought back memories of a wonderful Polish friend. Arrested on November 10, 1939, Anton Mruk (November 21, 1914–June 20, 2009) was among the first prisoners confined in what was to become the extermination camp of Auschwitz. He was tattooed with the number 898. At the time he belonged to the Jesuit order, but had not yet completed his studies and been ordained a priest.
In May 1940, Höss himself, after an apprenticeship served at the camp in Dachau (in Bavaria), arrived at Auschwitz (in Poland) for his first term as commandant (May 1940 to November 1943). One of Mruk’s prison duties now became cleaning Höss’s office.
This tribute appeared in a recent Quadrant.
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Mruk took the opportunity to switch on the radio and catch the BBC…
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
