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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
At Breakfast
In Jacob Jansz’s painting
circa fifteen hundred,
a family is seated at table
on which are breads, a jug
and something that could be cheese.
It looks as though the wife
is wearing her best clothes—
a dress of red brocade,
a matching shawl and a fancy cap
with trimmings of gold braid.
The child on her lap is pale
with an old head on his shoulders.
He looks as though he needs
some feeding up—perhaps whatever
his mother is spooning from a cup.
The husband is bearded and solemn,
plainly but carefully dressed
and gravely intent on slicing
a loaf of pumpernickel which
he holds in both his hands.
This placid picture of a meal
hangs in a gallery in Cologne
and gives us a rare glimpse
of the Holy Family sitting down
to a very German breakfast.
Barbara Fisher
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
