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A Sydney-based academic and columnist for the Nine rags sets out to explain the US to Australians. It's not a pretty picture
Sep 20 2024
8 mins
The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
In the Senate, a very queer notion of free speech
Sep 20 2024
2 mins
Cafe Tanka
1.
Of course it is a
kind of nature: the waiters
and the waitresses,
always under twenty-five,
lattes blooming in their hands.
2.
Why should poets praise
the rhetoric of seasons?
Why not instead that
fleeting and more creamy truth
bequeathed us by Capuchins?
3.
Reality in
fives and sevens: everything
must fit the measure:
parrots on a springtime limb
or sparrows on the tables.
4.
Morality may
sidle in. Don’t think too long
about the wages
sweated in the beans. Or muse
on bull calves trucked from dairies.
5.
Alone in all this
wild percussion, whistled steam
and clattered chatter,
the poet finds a stillness
here, down inside the poem.
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
