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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
Cecilia Morris: This Chartered Accountant
This Chartered Accountant
He knows the odour of himself
Growing old doesn’t suit him
A man with a wife he never loved
Three children he’s never understood
Growing old doesn’t suit him
His family robbed each breath
Three children he’s never understood
His white Porsche outside the oxygen of light
His children robbed each breath
He slaps round his face
His white Porsche outside the oxygen of light
The house is empty, he packs some clothes
Slaps cologne around his face
Opens the home safe collects the papers
The house is empty, he packs some clothes
Counts dollars places them in a slick pile
Opens the home safe collects the papers
Kicks the dog from around his feet
Counts coins stacks them in a slick pile
Cuts a photograph into pieces
Kicks the dog from around his feet
Throws a heavy rope over a kitchen beam
Cuts a photograph into pieces
Slides the rope around his neck kicks the chair away
The rope patient on its heavy beam
A man with a wife he has never understood
The rope patient on its heavy beam
He knows the odour of himself
Cecilia Morris
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
