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The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for Hamas
Oct 03 2024
19 mins
The Vance-Walz debate prompts a column that's more of a steaming pile
Oct 03 2024
3 mins
Our shambling excuse for a government is intent on suppressing opinions, even facts, it doesn't like
Oct 03 2024
9 mins
Berislav Maroya: ‘Mountain sonnet’
Mountain sonnet
Passing by the looming presence
Of painterly, ghostly gum trees,
Like those of Heysen’s essence,
Are strangers no one sees
In meadows of alpine flowers.
These gaunt charcoal forests
Point upwards, like derelict towers,
Losing sunshine to elements
Of dirty weather and a darkened sky
Over a hidden, damaged world
Once of beauty, a wooded byway
Full of leaves now whirled
Up to a river, running fast
Like pleasant echoes of the past.
Berislav Maroya
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 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
