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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
Authenticity and Indigenous Art
Last year, in a series of articles by Greg Bearup, the Australian published a devastating expose of the APY Art Centre.
The Art Centre’s non-Aboriginal employees had, the paper said, interfered in the production of art that was being sold as purely Aboriginal, in several instances without the consent of the works’ purported creators. Additionally, some of the artists whose work had been tampered with claimed that when they told their story to the Australian, they were repeatedly threatened, including with legal action, by the Art Centre’s management. Overall, the Art Centre, which is generously funded by taxpayers, had harassed and acted unconscionably towards its artists and misled the purchasers of their work.
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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
