Latest Articles
Our new G-G let slip an avalanche of heartfelt concern that recast our 236 years of indifference and guilt
Sep 17 2024
8 mins
The lust for power can be as great or greater driver of human effort as the good and humane
Sep 16 2024
11 mins
The promise a Covid royal commission has been renounced even as a sweeping inquiry is needed more than ever
Sep 16 2024
6 mins
Cally Conan-Davies: Sister
Sister
When my sister slipped away
her slippers fell downstairs
slapping the sleeping dog’s nose.
She patted him back to rest
before silence sealed her closing
of the sliding door behind her
and I, in my nightgown, slept
through it all, unstirred.
So how could I know?
I am a slip of my sister.
I learned to read by following her finger.
I followed the back of her knees when the furious sun
flamed the road that summer.
She is faster than me, but I am slower.
Her school-dress blows in the ash of the dead-dark noon.
She can’t keep herself a secret, so I keep them
to this very day.
This is how I know
in no time
she has slipped
right by me and away.
Cally Conan-Davies
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
