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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
The Audit
When I first worked for the accountants after leaving school, one of the main tasks for me and the other trainee, Jimmy Patel, was to go out and do audits. This was generally very routine stuff: checking bank statements against chequebooks, going through petty cash slips, that sort of thing.
We had just come back from a miserable two weeks auditing the books of a meat pie and sausage manufacturer in the Midlands. We had to stay at one of the local pubs, which was awful, and didn’t manage to get back home for the weekend, as we were expected to work on Saturday until lunchtime. Mr Meadows, the qualified assistant, who was supervising us, was cross because he missed his Saturday game of cricket. He was a precise and sardonic young man who lived with his mother.
“At least this one is not far away,” the Senior Partner announced.
Before sending the three of us out on audit he always summoned us to his room for “a briefing”, as he called it. He lined us up against the wall…
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
