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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
Dan Guenther: Among the White-Barked Gums
Among the white-barked gums
Last night possums descended
from the white-barked gums to invade your attic,
waking you from a drowse
and reflections upon a past life
where mortar fire forever altered your dreams.
No doubt they heard you whispering
to yourself as the wind picked up speed,
scrambling away as possums do
toward those spots where nocturnal creatures rendezvous.
Your uninvited guests brought to mind
memories of who went back
for the wounded left behind;
and of events that left other bodies
abandoned where they fell.
You lay sleepless until all moved on again
to those after-realms of the great beyond,
the missing now part of places
where they were lost,
grown up within the trees like Ovid’s Daphne.
Dan Guenther
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
