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Used as cudgels in divorce actions, domestic violence orders all too often reward perjurers and ruin innocent lives
Sep 19 2024
36 mins
The vice-presidential candidate, like many former critics, came to accept Trump was ahead of the curve on economic nationalism
Sep 18 2024
17 mins
The punditocracy won't admit that, when it comes to Trump's sharp tongue, he's a novice compared to, say, Paul Keating
Sep 18 2024
4 mins
Career
Apprenticed to an undertaker
A career perhaps, it was said
And there they were laid out around
More like a closet than a room.
He said, I’ll show you
And he sat up this girl
The shroud falling down.
I said, Dead? her eyes are moving,
Almost a smile. I felt some hope.
He jiggled her shoulders gently
And said no, this often happens.
You will learn, this liquid
Pour carefully—embalming,
Stops,—you’ll get used to it.
And, this chap, fifty years in the one house
In B——. I said, why! I was there!
The face looked familiar
What was his name?
Something Polish or something like,
Well, it could have been him
It was some time ago.
The room crowded and life was on its way.
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
