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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
Changing Lives
When Simon dresses as Claire, he
puts on more than a skirt. He wraps
his hardened heart in lace, makes memories
sparkle like jewels and squashes
his burliness under his bra. His longings
teeter on heels and his voice grows girlish
as his gusset. When he tosses his curls,
it seems the whole world dangles
in the tinkle of his laughter and all
the brightness falls from the summer air
to light up his eyes. As it did, that special day
never to be talked of since, when he
and the High Court Judge, passing as Julie
walked over Perranporth sands, hand in nail-varnished hand.
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
