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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
Cuba Libre; Time
Cuba Libre
To Cuba’s “revolutionary” rum
add the “freedom” of Coke
lemon, ice … an alcoholic joke.
An unimaginable drink
Castro mixing with Bloomberg.
After five you start to think
you just saw Marx cruising
the Malecon in a ’50s Caddy.
Havana’s Women in White
gladioli aloft like blind torches
marching, cojones alright.
Curvaceous in that Cuban way
that celebrates the oral, the aural
their sons and lovers jailed
the new sugar crop, cruel trope
to trade with diplomats and Pope.
Miami, where many fizz in exile
Rabbit Angstroms run
and Vice gets nice reviews.
The false hopes of Sierra Maestra
raised by the rusted Leninist
here drown in one word: More.
This is the Florida of democracy
the one that Bushed out Gore.
Six Cuba Libres down the hatch …
pink elephants, men in orange suits
cuffed and caged and Coranic
chanting bad will for the infidel
who marches in camo and counts
and recounts, searches turban to toe.
Revolution meet Free World ...
welcome to Guantanamo!
Time
“In my day,” rants the
old man as though he’d only
had 24 hours.
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
